Writing for the Green Light

One A Crazy Little Thing Called “Hollywood Logic”

In this first chapter we’ll lay out the ground rules on why the Hollywood system works the way it does and how distribution and production companies develop their projects from the inside out. From there we’ll go into how these companies decide which scripts—or, rather, which writers—make the cut, as well as what steps you’ll need to take to get yourself positioned at the top of a development executive’s list of writing candidates.

Last Things First

Far too many screenwriting books spend the bulk of their pages yammering on about format and structure and then, at the very end, cram in a shoddily written chapter on what to do with your script after it’s completed. This used to bug me to no end. ...