Raindance Writers' Lab

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Summary: A fat cheque is the best critique.
Review: Elliot Grove's engaging style ensures you'll write your best script yet. Just where other guides stop dead, this book goes on to offer fresh insights on how to sell your hot script.
Energetically written by a true enthusiast - Elliot founded the Raindance Film Festival - it is full of weaselly strategies to get you ahead of the game.
It even comes with a CD Rom featuring interviews with writers and filmmakers, sample contracts and screenplay formats. What more can be said? Beat the competition. Get it. Now.

Rating:
Summary: A fat cheque is the best critique.
Review: Elliot Grove's engaging style ensures you'll write your best script yet. Just where other guides stop dead, this book goes on to offer fresh insights on how to sell your hot script.
Energetically written by a true enthusiast - Elliot founded the Raindance Film Festival - it is full of weaselly strategies to get you ahead of the game.
It even comes with a CD Rom featuring interviews with writers and filmmakers, sample contracts and screenplay formats. What more can be said? Beat the competition. Get it. Now.

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Summary: Please don't buy this book.
Review: I am a British writer travelling through the States. I had actually bought this book right before I left the UK and didn't start reading it until I got over here. I was waiting for a bus to take me from Chicago to Detrait when I nearly missed my connection - so engrossing was this tome. The part on structuring your screenplay was really helpful. I really hope that no one else buys this - if I had the cash I'd buy all the copies and keep it out of other would-be screenwriters. The chapters on selling and marketing the script are really helpful. Oh yes, the CD ROM...

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Summary: An excellent technical how-to source
Review: Raindance Writers' Lab: Write + Sell The Hot Screenplay is a book and CD-ROM created to speed aspiring screenplay writers to critical and financial success. Written from the ground up by Elliot Grove (Founder and Director of the Raindance Film Festival), Raindance Writers' Lab starts with the most basic tenets of how to create a screenplay and how to secure rights to true-life stories, offers extensive advice on how to properly tell a good, captivating story, and concludes with perhaps the most critical lessons of how to pitch a story and secure a deal. The CD-ROM files require Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 or higher, and also contain MP3/MPEG-1 audio clips and video interviews that require a media player (Windows Media Player or Macintosh Quicktime recommended). Final Draft demo software is also included on the CD-ROM. Raindance Writers' Lab is an excellent technical how-to source, and highly recommended for film students and aspiring script writers with an interest in writing a commercially viable screenplay.

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Summary: Sparkling, informative, irreverent and funny!
Review: So you want to be a Screenwriter? Then read this book!
From the striking cover in this book shines. Elliot's style is at once friendly, knowledgeable, sharp and funny. He shoots from the hip and speaks from the heart.

Ever wanted to hurl your script in sheer frustration? Well this concisely written and considered tome will at first agree with you; then it will point out just where you have gone wrong, and show you how to fix it, quickly and effectively. Every chapter is filled with apt hints and points that really grab your attention and get you thinking.

If you've read Campbell and Vogler and come away confused and dismayed as to how to do archetypes! Then let Elliot calmly lead you through integrating them into the tight mechanics of the Profesional Screenplay.