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SECRETS OF ACTION SCREENWRITING
240 pages packed with tips and techniques. Let the other books tell you about the 3 act structure! My book covers: How to write a plot twist, the four kinds of suspense (and how to create it), reversals to keep your description exciting, ten ways to invent new action scenes, secrets and lies, creating the ultimate villain, five kinds of love interests, creating effective violence, is sex necessary?, theme, using magnification to create kiss ass stories, weapons for weirdos, plans for world destruction and/or domination, four ways to explode cliches, ten steps to a more focused script, the two types of heroes, emotional action scenes, your script's DNA, pacing, page turners, giving them something extra, and more.... Plus a complete analysis of DIE HARD and a bunch of "bonus techniques" (little tips).
"SECRETS OF ACTION SCREENWRITING is the best book on the practical nuts-and-bolts mechanics of writing a screenplay I've ever read." - Ted Elliott, co-writer of MASK OF ZORRO (with Terry Rossio).
BLUE BOOK SERIES
Twenty booklets, each focusing on a specific portion of the craft, from ACT 2 SECRETS to SUPPORTING CHARACTER SECRETS.
Not enough material for a book, too much for an article. Most of the booklets in the "Blue Book" series run 48 pages and are priced at $4.99 (plus $1 P&H).
SCREENWRITING CDs and CASSETTES
Coming Soon - Audio Cassettes! The THRILLER class, the GUERILLA MARKETING class, the HIGH CONCEPT class, and eventually the entire NAKED SCREENWRITING class!
HOW TO LIVE THE JAMES BOND LIFESTYLE by Paul Kyriazi
90-min cassette Audio Cassette tells you how!
Only $19.95 plus $1 Shipping and Handling (USA).
Back in 1997 I wrote a 4,000 word article on Film Noir for the Hollywood Scriptwriter. (My Blue Books run over 10,000 words.) They have reprinted these articles into a booklet which they sell on their website. Here's the link: Hollywood Scriptwriter's Film Noir Booklet.
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