Give The Gift Of Screenwriting School In A Box

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The most advanced screenwriting education available anywhere--and it'll be right on your screenwriter's PC or Mac.

These 50 DVDs are the live teaching sessions of successful screenwriters and many of the world's top screenwriting teachers, captured in live 90-minute presentations revealing the keys to screenwriting success and answer questions from aspiring screenwriters. Lectures, questions and answers, examples from great films and TV shows

There is no other screenwriting course of study anywhere in the world like this -- except paying the tuition and spending the years getting a master's degree and beyond in film school. And in one way, this set vastly beats film school: study at your leisure, no notes to take, no exams or dull required writing exercises, and they are always there as references.

In fact, these DVDs go far beyond a film school education. These working writers -- and teachers whose students have collectively thousands of credits for produced work -- go deep into the writing skills, tricks of the trade, trade secrets, and most important, door-opening skills and steps your screenwriter will need to succeed in this tough but rewarding business.

The full set includes all of the following subsets of DVDs, and more:

Screenwriting For Beginners: It's not only for the writer just starting out. Any experienced screenwriter can benefit from this thorough re-immersion in the basics. In fact, if you're writing but not selling, it may very well be something basic you're not doing or doing wrong;

Writing the Masterpiece: a 5-DVD course on taking your screenwriting to the next level;

The Pitchpack: 5 DVDs revealing how to successfully pitch your story;

The Stylepack: developing your own distinctive style;

Karl Iglesias' Writing For Emotional Impact: the full set of courses from one of the most popular screenwriting teachers in the U.S.

Wordplay: Secrets of the Screenwriting Trade: William Goldman, Paul Haggis, David Koepp, Susannah Grant --a 10-hour set of working screenwriters telling how.

Also add a subscription to Creative Screenwriting Magazine to your screenwriter's stocking.

There is a reason it's the most widely read and most praised magazine on screenwriting in the world: it's the best.

Creative Screenwriting Magazine contains more interviews with produced Hollywood and independent screenwriters than any other magazine.

The Strike: Time To Prepare to For That Next Big Opportunity

It's an ugly fact: the dispute between the Writers Guild and the studios will leave the studios running leaner, meaner, and hungrier for new work. The last major strike spawned the greatest spec script market in the history of the business. A strike will open up opportunities to land a new TV writing job, or even create an entirely new show. But you must be ready for when the strike ends.

Here's how the screenwriter in your life can prepare: get the November-December issue of Creative Screenwriting Magazine (subscribe or get it on newsstands this week) and read the article on how to start preparing NOW for the spring TV pitching season (it may be later--but writers need to start watching shows now to be ready).

Give the screenwriter in your life (Is that you? It's OK to buy for yourself!) the best possible chance of making it in this tough but rewarding business: DVDs on the business and craft of screenwriting and a subscription to Creative Screenwriting Magazine.