Screenwriter and novelist Alexandra Sokoloff offers a concise overview of screenwriting as a career. After ten years hustling scripts and making a good living, she's turned to the novel for her artistic satisfaction and published "The Harrowing," a horror novel nominated for a Bram Stoker Award. Her tips on professional screenwriting will give newcomers a firm foundation."What I think is, people are intimidated by the form because they’re just not used to reading it. Think about it. We’ve been reading books since we were four or five years old. We (well, the people reading this blog, anyway!) have read not just thousands of books, but probably into the ten thousands...And how many screenplays have you all read?
Exactly my point. That’s why starting as a story analyst is such good training for a screenwriter. You read dozens of scripts a week. You absorb the form through osmosis."
Murderati's Alex Sokoloff's series on Screenwriting, Part Two (Craft)
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