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Summary: Jumpstart Your Creativity
Review: This book exceeded my expectations and helped me discover better writing through partnership. I'd previously attempted screenwriting with a partner (with limited success), but had no model to base the partnership on. As a result of the interviews and examples the book provides, I was more confident that I could find a collaborator whose style more appropriately complimented my own. Needless to say, I found a screenwriting partner and through trial and error (with the book as a guide) we explored different styles of working, finally settling into a routine that has not only helped our writing improve, but has increased our productivity by leaps and bounds.I highly recommend that you pick up this book if you find your writing hits a dead end ? even if you don?t, it's the only book of its kind, a great read, and definitely worth a look.
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Summary: Jumpstart Your Creativity
Review: This book exceeded my expectations and helped me discover better writing through partnership. I'd previously attempted screenwriting with a partner (with limited success), but had no model to base the partnership on. As a result of the interviews and examples the book provides, I was more confident that I could find a collaborator whose style more appropriately complimented my own. Needless to say, I found a screenwriting partner and through trial and error (with the book as a guide) we explored different styles of working, finally settling into a routine that has not only helped our writing improve, but has increased our productivity by leaps and bounds. I highly recommend that you pick up this book if you find your writing hits a dead end ? even if you don?t, it's the only book of its kind, a great read, and definitely worth a look.
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Summary: A great read!
Review: This book is a great read. I've looked at a lot of screenwriting how-to books, and this is one of the best. Partly because it doesn't read like a how-to book. Instead, it just concentrates on some really good interviews with scriptwriting partners, including legends and newcomers (they've got a "filmography" in the back of the book to help separate out who's who). It's not just for people considering writing with partners - it's for anyone who's interested in what it's like to write professionally. And it's funny. There are terrific stories about the unusual ways in which writers brainstorm and create scripts together (one team even used a Ouija board to contact the original subject of their historical drama - establishing a script writing team with the dead!), and about how writers deal with disagreements between themselves as well as the studios. And the business material is presented about as clearly as any book I've seen on the subject. If you want to know what it's like to live and work as a screenwriter, this book tells you.
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Summary: "Work marriage"
Review: This book is orginal, timely, and indispensible. So many great insights into the collaborative process, including the "third voice," which is what filmmaking is all about, but seldom spoken of. The notes on accepting differences and working together toward making the script better are encouraging and inspiring. As someone who collaborates regularly, I'm finding the book more of a resource than a one-time-read. For anyone who is writing, or is thinking about writing with another person, this book is it!
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Summary: It's About Time
Review: This book is orginal, timely, and indispensible. So many great insights into the collaborative process, including the "third voice," which is what filmmaking is all about, but seldom spoken of. The notes on accepting differences and working together toward making the script better are encouraging and inspiring. As someone who collaborates regularly, I'm finding the book more of a resource than a one-time-read. For anyone who is writing, or is thinking about writing with another person, this book is it!
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Summary: It's About Time
Review: This book is orginal, timely, and indispensible. So many great insights into the collaborative process, including the "third voice," which is what filmmaking is all about, but seldom spoken of. The notes on accepting differences and working together toward making the script better are encouraging and inspiring. As someone who collaborates regularly, I'm finding the book more of a resource than a one-time-read. For anyone who is writing, or is thinking about writing with another person, this book is it!
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Summary: This book tells how
Review: This warm and witty book was a pleasure to read.
Definitely a must read for anyone involved or contemplating a co-writing career.
It has given me a new insight into the collaborative process--the challenges that come from joining creative forces.
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Summary: Let the collaboration begin!
Review: What a GREAT resource this book is! It's certainly not a just a 'manual', but a step by step guide for those wishing to embark on collaboration with their screenwriting. The humor keeps the read light and quick.
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Summary: Why and How Two Heads are Better Than One
Review: With humor and insight, Johnson and Stevens delve into the psychology and pragmatics of creative collaboration. The authors (who are themselves screenwriting partners) have compiled anecdotes and advice from the best screenwriting teams in the industry on topics including brainstorming, diplomacy and respect, balancing one another's strengths and weaknesses, and the business aspects of the liaison. Additionally, Script Partners contains valuable information on the craft of screenwriting in general, and how to partner with anyone on anything.
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