Something Startling Happens: The 120 Story Beats Every Writer Needs to Know

Author:   Todd Klick
Publisher:   Michael Wiese Productions
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9781615930593


Pages:   250
Publication Date:   01 October 2011
Format:   Paperback
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Something Startling Happens: The 120 Story Beats Every Writer Needs to Know


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Author:   Todd Klick
Publisher:   Michael Wiese Productions
Imprint:   Michael Wiese Productions
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9781615930593


ISBN 10:   1615930590
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   01 October 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you.

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"""Having sold over 100 scripts and written for virtually every network and studio, I learned early how vital structure was to crafting a successful script. This book can be an invaluable tool in building a professional career."" -- Marc Scott Zicree, The Twilight Zone Companion, Star Trek - The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Babylon 5 ""A dazzling new nuts-a-bolts story guide that reveals the extremely important ""in betweens"" left out in other screenwriting books. The perfect companion to Blake Snyder's Save The Cat."" -- John Philip Dayton (Executive Producer, Director, Writer, The Waltons, Eight Is Enough, Matlock, The Ray Bradbury Theatre). Todd Klick demystifies how to approach the script-writing process. He will give you tons of ""aha"" thoughts, and will help you interpret story in a way that will give you answers. -- Jen Grisanti, author of Story Line: Finding Gold In Your Life Story, Writing Instructor for Writers on the Verge with NBC, blogger for The Huffington Post"


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Todd Klick is an award-winning screenwriter and producer, and the bestselling author of Something Startling Happens: The 120 Story Beats Every Writer Needs to Know and Beat By Beat: A Cheat Sheet for Screenwriters. His feature film, Followed, which he wrote and produced, won Best Horror Thriller at the Burbank International Film Festival (September 2018), the Gold Award for Best Horror Narrative Feature at the Hollywood Independent Filmmakers Awards and Festival (September 2018), and Best Thriller at the Sydney Indy Film Festival, where he was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay (October 2018). Todd's stories have also earned accolades with the prestigious Nicholl Fellowship and the PAGE International screenwriting competitions.

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