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The Screenwriter's Troubleshooter: The Most Common Screenwriting Problems and How to Solve Them
ISBN 9780995498150 has color interior, ISBN 9780995498167 has B&W interior.
In The Screenwriter's Troubleshooter, Emmanuel Oberg offers a unique and indispensable survival kit for Film and TV creatives. Are you an experienced writer dealing with development notes , sometimes unsure how to translate them into actionable steps? Would you embrace advice that could lead you past the symptom or suggestion straight to the core of the problem and to finally cracking that rewritein time to meet your looming deadline? Are you a new writer , eager to figure out why some of your manuscripts are getting rejected or why you're having trouble attracting an agent? Do you wish you could quickly and efficiently diagnose what's not working in your projects, improve all aspects of your writing and advance your career to the next stage? Or maybe you're a producer, director or story editor working with writers. Do you ever struggle to articulate in a precise yet non-prescriptive way what you intuitively know isn't working in a script? Would you welcome a development resource designed to increase your chances of receiving a new draft that's not only different but better ? Emmanuel Oberg, author of the international bestseller on script development Screenwriting Unchained , delivers all this and more with the eagerly second volume in the Story-Type Method series, The Screenwriter's Troubleshooter . Building on his groundbreaking approach, Oberg identifies forty of the most common screenwriting problems and helps anyone involved in the script development process to resolve them. He explains in a clear, conversational style the causes leading to each problem and offers no-nonsense, actionable advice towards an organic, effective and creative solution. So if you'd like to know what to do when no one cares about your protagonist, or how to address a weak set-up, avoid the dreaded sagging midpoint, tackle an unsatisfying ending and solve dozens of other common screenwriting problems, look no further!
In The Screenwriter's Troubleshooter, Emmanuel Oberg offers a unique and indispensable survival kit for Film and TV creatives. Are you an experienced writer dealing with development notes , sometimes unsure how to translate them into actionable steps? Would you embrace advice that could lead you past the symptom or suggestion straight to the core of the problem and to finally cracking that rewritein time to meet your looming deadline? Are you a new writer , eager to figure out why some of your manuscripts are getting rejected or why you're having trouble attracting an agent? Do you wish you could quickly and efficiently diagnose what's not working in your projects, improve all aspects of your writing and advance your career to the next stage? Or maybe you're a producer, director or story editor working with writers. Do you ever struggle to articulate in a precise yet non-prescriptive way what you intuitively know isn't working in a script? Would you welcome a development resource designed to increase your chances of receiving a new draft that's not only different but better ? Emmanuel Oberg, author of the international bestseller on script development Screenwriting Unchained , delivers all this and more with the eagerly second volume in the Story-Type Method series, The Screenwriter's Troubleshooter . Building on his groundbreaking approach, Oberg identifies forty of the most common screenwriting problems and helps anyone involved in the script development process to resolve them. He explains in a clear, conversational style the causes leading to each problem and offers no-nonsense, actionable advice towards an organic, effective and creative solution. So if you'd like to know what to do when no one cares about your protagonist, or how to address a weak set-up, avoid the dreaded sagging midpoint, tackle an unsatisfying ending and solve dozens of other common screenwriting problems, look no further!
252 pages, Hardcover
Published October 2, 2019
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About the author
Emmanuel Oberg
6 books8 followersEmmanuel Oberg is a screenwriter, bestselling author and creative consultant with more than twenty-five years of experience in the Film and TV industry.
After selling a first screenplay to Warner Bros, he has been commissioned as a writer by StudioCanal, Working Title / Universal, Gold Circle and Film4.
He has also designed internationally acclaimed advanced development workshops and modules on thriller, comedy, animation and TV series writing – all based on the Story-Type Method®.
He delivers them with passion to filmmakers all over the world, in-person or online, through a series of popular interactive courses and hybrid events.
"Screenwriting Unchained", "The Screenwriter's Troubleshooter" and "Writing a Successful TV Series", all bestselling books on screenwriting and script development, are part of the Story-Type Method collection.
Emmanuel lives in the UK with his wife and their two daughters.
After selling a first screenplay to Warner Bros, he has been commissioned as a writer by StudioCanal, Working Title / Universal, Gold Circle and Film4.
He has also designed internationally acclaimed advanced development workshops and modules on thriller, comedy, animation and TV series writing – all based on the Story-Type Method®.
He delivers them with passion to filmmakers all over the world, in-person or online, through a series of popular interactive courses and hybrid events.
"Screenwriting Unchained", "The Screenwriter's Troubleshooter" and "Writing a Successful TV Series", all bestselling books on screenwriting and script development, are part of the Story-Type Method collection.
Emmanuel lives in the UK with his wife and their two daughters.
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December 8, 2019
As the author, I can't really review this book, but until Goodreads readers provide their own reviews, I can try to explain why I wrote it.
Screenwriting Unchained, my first volume in the Story-Type Method series on script development, was primarily about setting out a new approach to story structure: more flexible, less didactic. I used many examples and detailed case studies, offered many exercises, which resulted in a fairly large book (470 pages), best read from cover to cover.
With The Screenwriter Troubleshooter, I wanted to offer more of a practical reference guide, made of short, independent chapters, that can be read in any order, so that one can access directly the information related to a specific screenwriting problem, and be on their way to resolving it.
The general idea being that if you're stuck because of a problem you are able to identify, or if you've received some feedback pointing at a specific issue, you look it up in the table of contents and get all the relevant info in one place. I also tried to cross-reference connected problems in the book, and sections in the first book that might help too.
I'd love to hear what you think!
Screenwriting Unchained, my first volume in the Story-Type Method series on script development, was primarily about setting out a new approach to story structure: more flexible, less didactic. I used many examples and detailed case studies, offered many exercises, which resulted in a fairly large book (470 pages), best read from cover to cover.
With The Screenwriter Troubleshooter, I wanted to offer more of a practical reference guide, made of short, independent chapters, that can be read in any order, so that one can access directly the information related to a specific screenwriting problem, and be on their way to resolving it.
The general idea being that if you're stuck because of a problem you are able to identify, or if you've received some feedback pointing at a specific issue, you look it up in the table of contents and get all the relevant info in one place. I also tried to cross-reference connected problems in the book, and sections in the first book that might help too.
I'd love to hear what you think!
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