Screenwriting Goldmine: How to Write a Screenplay That People Are Desperate to Shoot! [Paperback]

Phil Gladwin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 23, 2009

A simple, highly readable, focused, high quality screenwriting system. Phil Gladwin has been a professional screenwriter and story editor at the top of the UK television industry for nearly fifteen years. This is the method he uses to write - a concise, battle hardened, step by step guide that takes you all the way from blank page to completed first draft. All you need is blank paper...

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About the Author

Phil Gladwin has worked as a script reader, script editor and screenwriter since 1995. He has been hired by (and sometimes been fired by) the BBC, ITV, and many different independent production companies to write or edit TV shows such as The Sarah Jane Adventures, Grange Hill, Holby, Trial & Retribution, The Bill, Casualty, Murder City, Bugs, Red Cap, Crossroads, and Berkeley Square, plus a good few others that never made it to broadcast. Born in Grimsby, back in the olden days of the early 1960s, he has also worked as a cycle courier in central London, a researcher in Artificial Intelligence at Cambridge University, a waiter in London, Brighton and the East Village, and a technical writer for an IBM systems software house. He loved being a cycle courier, but possibly his least favourite job of all was being the man who sat outside a massive freezer keeping tally of the movements of tons and tons and tons of frozen fish. He now lives by the sea in Brighton.

Product Details

• Paperback: 100 pages
• Publisher: CreateSpace (November 23, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1449900534
• ISBN-13: 978-1449900533
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #596,454 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Practical Guide and so much more, March 3, 2010

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Luke (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Screenwriting Goldmine: How to Write a Screenplay That People Are Desperate to Shoot! (Paperback)

As far as practical guides to screenwriting go, this is one of the best. It's a guide to laying out your story, on how best to present your story as a structured piece of screenwriting.

But it's also so much more than that. When you really discover the storytelling gears driving the practical instructions in this book, your writing won't look back.

A well-valued investment to your screenwriting library.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hands down, best in the field. A screenwriter's Bible., February 8, 2010

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W. Johnson (Saint Louis) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Screenwriting Goldmine: How to Write a Screenplay That People Are Desperate to Shoot! (Paperback)

This is by far the best DIY book I have ever read. Not only the best "how to write a script" book, but the best How-To book period. Phil gets straight to the point and lays it out in step by step, simple format. Cannot go wrong.

12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Buyer Beware, February 3, 2010

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David Phillips - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Screenwriting Goldmine: How to Write a Screenplay That People Are Desperate to Shoot! (Paperback)

Granted, I was foolish enough to part with $97 for Phil Gladwin's "special package" of screenwriting know-how when it was a pre-Amazon online special. That's right - ninety seven dollars U.S.

Now that it's available on Amazon, I have a platform to warn others.

What did I get for $97? A glorified package of brochures containing recycled content that can be obtained from any number of other books on the subject, most of which are available for less than $20. Even at $35 MSRP here on Amazon, this 100 page "book" is WAY overpriced. If I could give it zero stars, I would.

If you really want to spend that much on a single book, look up "Inside Story" by Dara Marks. You won't regret it. If you feel that $35 is a lot to spend on a one book (in this economy, who can blame you?), look up titles by Blake Snyder, Denny Martin Flinn, Christopher Keane, Michael Hague, Billy Mernit, Jeff Kitchen, Christopher Vogler, Karl Iglesias, Lajos Egri, Paul Chitlik, or William Akers. Even Syd Field or Robert McKee would be money better spent.

Who knows - you might even get two books for the price of this one.