Discusses the craft of writing, explains how to make effective use of one's time, and gives advice concerning writer's block, revision, inspiration, and manuscript submission

A Writer's Time: Making the Time to Write

Reference

Atchity, Kenneth

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

The first book to apply time-management principles to the specific needs of writers.

A Writer's Time: A Guide to the Creative Process, from Vision through Revision (paperback)

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

W.W.Norton&Company

For nearly a decade, thousands of writers? aspiring and professional? have relied on this book, the first to apply time-management principles to the specific needs of writers of fiction, nonfiction, and drama. Expanding his focus now, Kenneth Atchity adds a substantial new chapter, "Breaking into Show Business," and new material about recapturing the "high" of creativity and maintaining confidence despite setbacks. He shows you how to transform anxiety into "productive elation," how to separate vision from revision, and how to develop your own writing agenda. This book, based on his writing seminars, research into dreams and creativity, and film development, is, as the New York Times states, "crammed with the sort of useful advice that it seems to take some people years to learn."

Literature & Fiction

In this entertaining guide, writer-producers Ken Atchity and Chi-Li Wong tell readers everything they need to know to create an effective and salable treatment--one that includes such key elements as a compelling conflict, likable characters, plot twists, a climax, and visual drama.

Writing Treatments That Sell: How to Create and Market Your Story Ideas to the Motion Picture and TV Industry

Wong, Chi-Li

Holt Paperbacks

A fully revised guide to turning your movie idea into a treatment that can persuade even the most jaded movie producers
As Hollywood insiders know, the first step in selling your story idea for film or television is preparing a treatment, the brief pitch that sells the concept to a busy producer or agent. Now including updates on the latest trends in the industry, writers-producers Kenneth Atchity and Chi-Li Wong tell readers everything they need to know to create an effective and saleable treatment, one that incorporates such key elements as conflict, likeable characters, plot twists, a climax, and visual drama. Using dozens of the latest examples from actual productions, Writing Treatments That Sell distinguishes between scripts designed for feature films, episodic television, and made-for-TV movies, and shows step-by-step how to prepare a selling treatment for each. Also included is essential information on copyrighting and acquiring rights along with a comprehensive glossary of industry terms. This book is essential for anyone hoping to get a foot in the door of the exciting scriptwriting business.

Writing Treatments That Sell: How to Create and Market Your Story Ideas to the Motion Picture and TV Industry, Second Edition

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Through the expanding influence of the Internet and the corporatization of both publishing and entertainment, the process of getting your book to the big screen has gotten more complicated, more eccentric, and more exciting. This little book aims to help you figure out how to get your story told on big screens or small. It’s not going to give you rules and regulations, because they simply don’t exist today. Any rule that could be promulgated has and will be broken. What this book offers instead is nearly thirty years of observation of how things happen in show business, the business of entertainment (better known around the world as Hollywood). Dr. Ken Atchity’s Hollywood experience ranges from writing to managing writers to producing their movies for television and theaters. He’s seen the Hollywood story market from nearly every angle, including legal and business affairs. Ken Atchity spent his first career as a professor, a career he embarked upon innocently because he wanted to focus his efforts on understanding stories and helping writers get their stories told—and here he is thirty years later still pursuing the same goal—because it’s a worthy and never-ending goal. He’s made films based on nonfiction books, and made deals for a number of nonfiction stories. But most of his experience lies in turning novels into films. As a lifelong story merchant, what Dr. Atchity develops and sells are “stories,” because he believes stories rule the world. Many of the observations outlined in this book are simply about selling stories to Hollywood. This pocket guide will help you expedite the transformation of your show business dreams into realities. Ken’s most recent films include Meg, Angels in the Snow, The Lost Valentine, Erased, and Hysteria. The subject matter of the book is also covered in Atchity’s webinar series at www.RealFastHollywoodDeal.com.

Sell Your Story to Hollywood: Writer's Pocket Guide to the Business of Show Business

Business & Money

Industries

Story Merchant

For the Type C, or creative, personalities who want their work to "fill" their deepest creative urges, this is the frontline guide to making the transition from a secure and soulless job to a life built around a creative dream. Individuals learn how to follow the mind's eye to construct a life that conforms to personal vision, steal time to make creative dreams come true, use as assets the resources around them, and turn creative goals and objectives into an effective life plan. • Introduces the catchy buzzword "Type C"Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.

How to Escape Lifetime Security and Pursue Your Impossible Dream: A Guide to Transforming Your Career

Job Hunting & Careers

Allworth

Are you a creative person seeking more satisfying work? Do you want to make the transition from a job you find secure but soulless to a life built around your creative dream? Then look no further than this essential guide, written by a tenured professor who quit his job and pursued his dream as a successful story merchant” and film producer. This book will show you how to: - Construct a life that fits your personal vision - Stand up against negative peer pressure - Redefine success in your own terms - Identify and control your conflicting inner voices - Find time to make your dreams come true - And much more! If you’re ready to fall in love with your future, this book can give you the inspiration you need to make that life-changing leap into a better world.

How to Quit Your Day Job and Live Out Your Dreams: A Guide to Transforming Your Career

Parenting & Relationships

Skyhorse

Are you a creative person seeking more satisfying work? Do you want to make the transition from a job you find secure but soulless to a life built around your creative dream? Then look no further than this essential guide, written by a tenured professor who quit his job and pursued his dream as a successful story merchant” and film producer. This book will show you how to: Construct a life that fits your personal vision Stand up against negative peer pressure Redefine success in your own terms Identify and control your conflicting inner voices Find time to make your dreams come true And much more! Kenneth Atchity teaches you the skills you will need to venture out into the world on your own terms. If you’re ready to fall in love with your future, this book can give you the inspiration you need to make that life-changing leap into a better world.

How to Quit Your Day Job and Live Out Your Dreams: Do What You Love for Money

If there's a story distracting you during the day and keeping you awake at night, ask yourself: Is this a great story? If your answer is yes, then this is the book for you.Writing a book or a screenplay that causes that effect is the bar, the end-all, dope, the cat's ass. Storytelling is the mind and heart's counterpart to sex--an essential act of communication by which life itself is perpetuated. After you read a good book or see a great movie, what do you do? You share it with a friend.Part I of Tell Your Story to the World & Sell It for Millions is a step-by-step guide for writing your own top-notch page-turner. Part II teaches you the cutthroat publishing and Hollywood ropes so you, too, can achieve commercial success and join the ranks of writers making seven, eight, and nine figures annually.In our encounters with other publishers, managers, producers, studio execs, attorneys, coaches, and agents, we found ourselves agreeing with them about one thing: it's never a great scenario to submit a terrific concept that is unprofessionally executed. Our mission is to shave years off your learning curve and make your storytelling dreams come true.

Tell Your Story to the World & Sell It for Millions

Cerasoli, Lisa

Story Merchant Books

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A Writer's Time: Making the Time to Write

A Writer's Time: A Guide to the Creative Process, from Vision through Revision (paperback)

A Writer's Time: Making the Time to Write

Writing Treatments That Sell: How to Create and Market Your Story Ideas to the Motion Picture and TV Industry

Writing Treatments That Sell: How to Create and Market Your Story Ideas to the Motion Picture and TV Industry, Second Edition

Sell Your Story to Hollywood: Writer's Pocket Guide to the Business of Show Business

How to Escape Lifetime Security and Pursue Your Impossible Dream: A Guide to Transforming Your Career

How to Quit Your Day Job and Live Out Your Dreams: A Guide to Transforming Your Career

How to Quit Your Day Job and Live Out Your Dreams: Do What You Love for Money

Tell Your Story to the World & Sell It for Millions