{"product_id":"9781429906357","title":"Rewriting Secrets for Screenwriters: Seven Strategies to Improve and Sell Your Work","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery screenwriter needs to rewrite—more than once, probably many times—to make the story work and then to make a sale. And then again later on, to please producers, studios or stars.  Tom Lazarus--author of \"Stigmata\", among other scripts--is a working screenwriter and professor at UCLA extension.  In this book, he's distilled his own experience and that of other screenwriters into a system.  SECRETS OF FILM REWRITING will teach writers how to:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-prioritize big scenes\u003cbr\u003e-track transitions\u003cbr\u003e-plot corrections\u003cbr\u003e-add new information\u003cbr\u003e-pass through for dialogue\u003cbr\u003e-do an \"on the nose\" rewrite \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHugely valuable to first-time screenwriters and to grizzled veterans of Hollywood pitch wars alike, SECRETS OF SCREENPLAY REWRITING is larded with humor and attitude as well as information. Its anatomy of a screenplay rewrite breaks down the book's lessons into their practical application—a must for anyone looking for a break in the film business.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183057944816,"sku":"9781429906357","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429906357_p0.jpg?v=1769901365","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429906357","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}