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Screenwriter's Compass on Amazon
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Focal Press Page for Screenwriter's Compass
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Screenwriter's Compass – Sales Copy
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Screenwriter's Compass is not simply another How-To guide to screenwriting. It is a a how-to-think book, an elegant presentation of fundamental concepts of dramatic construction. In Screenwriter's Compass, Guy Gallo shows aspiring and professional screenwriters how event, plot, and structure are grounded in the vivid imagining and presentation of character. He gives you methods to more easily navigate the sometimes chaotic realm of story. If the screenplay is a landscape, Screenwriter's Compass offers writers a collection of tools to make them better cartographers. His message to screenwriters: your story is more than a set of plot points! Screenwriters will see that narrative grows out of behavior, and will stop pushing and pummeling their characters to fit the outline. With Gallo's guidance, screenwriters will learn how to root their funniest prose and catchiest dialogue in character and voice; to create screenplays that seduce the reader, make them lean forward, and, most importantly, allow them to identify with character.
Cover Contest
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Focal Press is holding a contest to elicit reactions to three possible covers for Screenwriter's Compass.
The prize is a copy of The Filmmaker's Eye.
Book Update
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Well. Gone through the book three times now. Pretty much does what I hoped it would do. Getting some good reaction from initial readers.
Look for it at a bookstore near you in March 2012.
Screenwriter's Compass: Character as True North
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
…has been agreed upon as the title for my book. Slated for publication in Spring 2012.
Blocked
Friday, April 29, 2011
What to do when you are, as all writers are at some time or another, blocked? The screenplay, the sequence, or even just a given important scene just won't come. Are there tricks to employ to get yourself started again?
Here are a couple of thoughts that might help jump start your scene.
Think about location. What would happen if you moved the scene somewhere else — even just as an experiment. This just makes you approach the scene from a new angle. Instead of beating your head against your pre-conceived notion of the scene, it might help loosen your grip and allow you to see the scene freshly.
Put the computer away. Try and write out — in long-hand and from memory — the scene. What we remember of our intention and draft usually points to what is important in the scene.
Print out the scene and read it over and over again away from the computer. Or even better, copy it out in long hand. Sometimes the simple act of transcribing the scene onto a legal pad will get you started again. Don't underestimate the impact of a number two pencil to get you connected again to the act of writing.
Windows Live Mesh
Saturday, March 12, 2011
If you work on more than one computer and need to synchronize the contents of your working folders, you should check out Windows Live Mesh.
It works on Windows 7 and Mac OS/X 1.5.
The info page is here: Windows Live Mesh.
It requires you have (or get) a free Windows Live ID. But it's worth it. Changes on Computer A are synched to Computer B almost instantly via the internet.
