Advice — ken rotcop

"I'm gonna write a screenplay" "Good!" "I've got this great idea for a story. I'm really excited" "Go for it." "Except, I've got this problem." "Oh?" "I stare at my computer and all it does is stare back at me!" "Have you tried using the keys on the keyboard?" "I'm being serious. What's the secret for starting a screenplay? Do you have a secret?" "As a matter of fact, I do." "Is it writing down scenes on 4x5 cards first and then laying them all out so that you can see the beginning, middle, and end?" "That's one way to...

The phone rang.It was a big shot producer from a major studio. "Hey, Ken, I love what you've done! What a great idea! I'm gonna steal it from you."Was he talking about one of my scripts? No. What he was talking about was - well, read on.Let's say you've had a pitch meeting. (And I'll talk about pitching later in this article.) The producer likes what he's heard and the usual line is "Send me a one-page synopsis."So you go home, knock yourself trying to condense your 118-page screenplay into one page.And what you write sucks.It reads flat, you've left...

The phone rang.It was a big shot producer from a major studio. "Hey, Ken, I love what you've done! What a great idea! I'm gonna steal it from you."Was he talking about one of my scripts? No. What he was talking about was - well, read on.Let's say you've had a pitch meeting. (And I'll talk about pitching later in this article.) The producer likes what he's heard and the usual line is "Send me a one-page synopsis."So you go home, knock yourself trying to condense your 118-page screenplay into one page.And what you write sucks.It reads flat, you've left...