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Top Secrets: Screenwriting [Paperback]

Jurgen Wolff (Author)
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January 25, 1993
Offers the professional and novice writer in-depth advice from top screen writers.


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Top Secrets: Screenwriting is the ideal reference work on writing for the highly competitive, and often highly lucrative, screenwriting market. Offering a blend of biographies and interviews with successful screenwriters, and actual script samples, the aspiring screenwriter can get a true feeling for what is involved and what the demands are in his or her chosen profession. Featured writers include Michael Blake (Dances With Wolves); Jim Cash (Top Gun); Mary Agnes Donoghue (Paradise); Nicholas Kazan (Reversal of Fortune); William Kelley (Witness); Todd W. Langen (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles); Bruce Joel Rubin (Ghost); Tom Schulman (Dead Poets Society); S. S. Wilson & Brent Maddock (Short Circuit); David Zucker (Naked Gun). -- Midwest Book Review

Product Details

  • Paperback: 342 pages
  • Publisher: Lone Eagle Publishing Company (January 25, 1993)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0943728509
  • ISBN-13: 978-0943728506
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #302,354 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Jurgen Wolff is a writer and creativity and productivity coach. His books include "Focus: use the power of targeted thinking to get more done" (www.focusquick.com), "Creativity Now!" (www.jurgenwolff.com), "Your Writing Coach" (www.yourwritingcoach.com) "Do Something Different" and "Marketing for Entrepreneurs" (www.forentrepreneursbooks.com). "Focus" has become an international best-seller with seven foreign editions.

Jurgen has written more than 100 episodes of TV including "Relic Hunter," "Benson," "Family Ties" and the animated series he created, "Norman Normal." He also wrote the film, "The Real Howard Spitz," starring Kelsey Grammer, the mini-series "Midnight Man," starring Rob Lowe and TV movies featuring the Olson Twins, Walter Matthau and others. His plays, including "Killing Mother" and "Living Skills," have been produced in London, New York, Berlin and Los Angeles.

He teaches writing, creativity and productivity courses internationally and recently established the Breakthrough Strategy Program, an online coaching program that helps participants achieve their creative goals. He says, "What makes this program different is that it uses right-brain methods to create a safe space in which people can let their creativity soar and create what only they can create. Too many people let fear and procrastination stop them and my goal is to help them overcome those blocks."

Jurgen has degrees from Stanford University and California State University at San Francisco and has taught at the University of Southern California as well as privately in the US, UK, Germany, Spain, South Africa and many others. He is an NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) practitioner and a certified hypnotherapist. He has produced a CD of guided visualizations called 'Power Trances.'

He was born in Germany, grew up in California, and now divides his time between London and California. His interests include film, theater, and cartooning (his cartoons have appeared in half a dozen books).

If you would like to contact him regarding teaching a workshop, delivering a keynote address, or anything else, you can email him directly at j4london@aol.com.

 

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2.0 out of 5 stars What secrets?, November 26, 2005
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This review is from: Top Secrets: Screenwriting (Paperback)
First of all, this book contains no secrets about screenwriting.
Second, it contains no information on how to write screenplays.
The book contains biographical summaries of how a number of screenwriters broke into screenwriting (told in narrative and in interview form), bits and pieces about writing habits, a summary of the movie, and a scene from the screenplay.
The screenplays chosen include six mediocre movies and four fair to good movies.
Studying mediocre movies can be useful provided you ask the all-important questions: (1) Why was this movie mediocre? (2) How could it have been made better? Since these screenwriters don't have a clue that their screenplays are mediocre, they never ask these two questions. (Actually, a number of them admit that their scripts were ruined by studios and rewrites by other screenwriters, but they still don't go into detail as to why those changes hurt the movie.)
The biographies also are depressing: most got their break because they had a friend who was already in or because they had a friend who knew somebody who was already in. Not very encouraging to screenwriters who don't have such connections.
Bottom line: this book is largely a waste of money. Buy a book on screenwriting to learn screenwriting and a book on writing treatments or outlines to learn about submitting material.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent source., July 25, 1998
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"An excellent source of insider insights and know-how, this volume will interest movie fanatics and screenwriter wannabes." -- ALA BOOKLIST
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5.0 out of 5 stars A practical guide for would-be screenwriters, January 24, 2001
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Jurgen Wolff and Kerry Cox have put together another useful guide for aspiring writers. There is nothing quite as practical as the voice of experience, and Mr. Wolff generously shares the insights he has gleaned from a long and successful career. He infuses the potentially dull technical aspects of the writing process with his customary wit and humor, and shows the aspiring writer how to focus and succeed.
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