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Nicolosi, a writer, executive producer, and script consultant, and Peterson, a screenwriter and script consultant, offer notes to writers and producers of screenplays and ways to address notes they might be given by executives. They cover dealing with the experience of getting notes, knowing when to take or turn down a project, story, character, arena, dialogue, theme, tone, genre, spectacle, structure, cinematic quality, formatting, style, rewriting, loglines, synopses, proposals, beat sheets, treatments, working with a partner and producers, networking, and the studio or indie distribution route. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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Screen storytelling is an essentially collaborative process. Writers need feedback but too often the notes they receive stall them and even demoralize them. This book unpacks the whys and what-fors of all the most commonly given notes on scripts, stories, and writers themselves. Coming from the perspective of experienced Hollywood professionals, Notes to Screenwriters offers insightful and concise guidance on the entire storytelling process, as well as what comes before it in the life of the writer, and after it in the marketing of the screenplay. It is a unique blend of classical storytelling principles combined with practical knowledge of the contemporary marketplace. This book is destined to be a resource for every writer who gets past the initial stage of writing a first draft and needs sage counsel for what to do next.
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