Screenwriting 101: The Essential Craft of Feature Film Writing

by Neill D. Hicks

Provides readers with the necessary tools to create and market a screenplay, discussing topics such as structure, character development, and style.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0941188728
• ISBN13: 9780941188722
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Amazing Resource

As a producer, writer and director of both feature films and documentaries, "Screenwriting 101" is an amazing resource. It is an excellent guide to understanding genres and to understand the marketability and potential audience for the film you are working on.

A handy reference for those interested in movies.

I remember growing up as a kid wanting to go to Hollywood, Write a movie script and make millions. If only I had read Screenwriting 101, I might have been able to succeed.This book will show you, in an easy to understand and almost lighthearted way, the steps to becoming a great screenwriter. You have to make sure you have something to take notes with as you read along.The author includes scribble exercises scattered throughout the book, this requires you to write what you are thinking at that time. Since this book is made to use over again your responses will change - have the eraser handy! Written by someone who has worked on 2 number 1 box office hits only add to an already great book. Whether you want Hollywood to notice you or your local theater group this book will certainly come in handy.

Lucid, pragmatic, and entertaining primer on screenwriting.

Terrific book. A lucid, pragmatic and entertaining primer on screenwriting, as valuable for veterans as it is for newcomers. Hicks has been there, in the Hollywood trenches, and knows what he's talking about. Having been in those same trenches myself, I wish I'd had this informative guide to provide helpful hints and straight talk about the craft of writing films.

If you want to write a successful screenplay, read this book

I love this book. I am a working screenwriter with ten films to my credit, including two Number One hits. If this book had been available when I started my career, I would have been able to save myself a ton of headaches and heartaches. Neill Hicks has done a huge favor to screenwriters everywhere with this new book. I find his approach to be extremely sensible and realistic...IF you are interested in writing a solidly crafted screenplay that has the highest potential for getting sold--and made.

The best book on screenwriting I've read.

This is simply the best book on screenwriting there is. A lot of other books on the market offer gimmicks and flash and false promises. This book is dedicated to making the reader a better writer, to understanding craft, to gain skills that will help for a long term career. Neil Hicks knows that screenwriting is not something that can be mastered with a quick formula. He is not trying to con the reader with unrealistic claims, which is what so many of the professional screenwriting gurus do. Instead, this book is about the essential skills, knowledge and understanding that any writer must have. It's an honest book, and honesty is something that's rare in Hollywood.