The Complete Idiot's Guide to Screenwriting

Skip Press

Alpha, 2004 - Performing Arts - 390 pages

Updated for today's screenwriting market.

This popular guide includes even more insider advice on the craft and business of screenwriting. From picking a winning idea to packaging a new script for sale, this updated edition offers tips and tricks for every stage of the process, as well as new information on digital video, writing video games, new resources for staged readings, tips on collaboration, and a primer for pitching a project. Also included is a chapter on writing for television.

What people are saying

Review: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Screenwriting (The Complete Idiot's Guides)

User Review  - Lora Covrett - Goodreads

A lot of information in this book. Great reference for a first venture into screenwriting.

Review: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Screenwriting (The Complete Idiot's Guides)

User Review  - Tim Casey - Goodreads

I got this book many years ago and still keep it handy, I also require it as a text book in a course I teach at the University of Colorado. Get it, read it and keep it in your reference library, mine is very dog-eared.

About the author

Skip Press is a veteran author, screenwriter, online writing instructor, and former editor of Entertainment Monthly. He has written and sold television scripts, feature films, plays, and a variety of books, including the acclaimed Writer's Guide to Hollywood Producers, Directors, and Screenwriting Agents and How to Write What You Want & Sell What You Write, now in its second edition.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Screenwriting; The complete idiot's guide
• Author: Skip Press
• Edition: 2, illustrated
• Publisher: Alpha, 2004
• ISBN: 1592572251, 9781592572250
• Length: 390 pages
• Subjects: Performing Arts / Film & Video / Screenwriting; Reference / Writing Skills