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Prewriting your Screenplay
A Step-By-Step Guide to Generating Stories
A book by Michael B. Tabb
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there were a book that actually taught screenwriters how to develop a script idea from absolutely nothing at all?
What if that process could offer a permanent solution to writer’s block?
Prewriting Your Screenplay is that book.
It takes you from zero to story.
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WHY YOU NEED THIS BOOK!
My step-by-step process starts well before structures, outlines, and beat sheets. Every chapter is filled with questions for the reader and ends with clear and concise exercises, walking writers through that chapter's material to guarantee maximum absorption and professional-level execution. It’s how I build the spinal column of any script, beginning with the very first bone, and then, piece by piece, construct a full skeletal structure from ground zero.
Each chapter of Prewriting Your Screenplay ends with an exercise that adds to the big picture, one concept at a time. The fact that none of the seminal screenwriting textbooks features any kind of chapter-ending exercises to help writers build a new script speaks volumes about how special Prewriting is in terms of what it offers writing educators.
Prewriting Your Screenplay teaches everyone how to get from zero to story.
Why This Author?
- 15+ years as a WGA screenwriter
- Co-creator of the WGA Mentor Program
- Has been paid to write in every major genre
- Serves on the WGA’s Writers Education Committee
- Multiple years of award-winning online instruction in screenwriting
- Writer for Universal Studios, Walt Disney Feature Animation, Sony, etc.
- Winner of Best Screenplay at the New Mexico International Film Festival
- Worked 3 years in development as a script analyst for Alcon Entertainment (deal at Warner Brothers)
- Read all the mind-blowing endorsements from the best in the business!!!
"I have purchased and sent your 'Prewriting Your Screenplay' book to members of the RKO development staff and some of our contract writers. It is going to be the reference book for development projects at RKO."
