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  Film Treatment tips How to write a film treatment First, you’re asking what is a film treatment?  A treatment is a basic narrative tool that helps a screenwriter flesh out ideas and potential story scenarios that can help you also develop a good character base. What this basically means is that you create the narrative of your story first before you spend all your time writing the actual movie script. A film treatment outlines what your film will be about, the working or final title, your logline, a short story summary, and the descriptions of your main characters in the story itself. You need a film treatment to entice investors to give you the money to make your film. These investors want to know what type of movie, the genre, the story concept, and what kind of characters you want to have in your movie. Here is what they want to see in your treatment: What kind of world do you want your audience to envision. What is the structure of your storyline? What are yo...

  The Logline A logline is a one-line description of your book, or movie script that you create in order to pitch your work to an agent or production company that might be interested in your project. Your job as a professional writer is to describe your work in a short one liner that is comprehensive and concise in a logline. This one liner describes your story or main character and the premise of your story. This is not an easy thing to do, trust me when I say this. It can take anywhere from a week to a year before you come up with that perfect one liner. So, get cracking on how they are done by doing your research of loglines for your favorite movies. Here are a few examples that I found on the internet: The Godfather : The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son. Titanic: Two star-crossed lovers fall in love aboard the R.M.S. Titanic and struggle to keep their relationship afloat as the doomed ship sinks...

How to Turn Your Manuscript into a Screenplay   They say that Hollywood movie producers are always in the market for new screenplay material to turn into the next big feature film. However, industry experts say they don’t want new fresh ideas and scripts, instead, they’d prefer book to film source materials because it helps to sell the movie itself in the long run. If you’re working on your own novel, consider adapting your novel into a screenplay for a film or TV series. So how do you transform your book into a movie script, it’s not that hard. Actually, each of my books started out as a movie script first. The reason I do it this way is because the movie script is all about scenes and dialogue. In contrast, a book has scene descriptions, feelings, and what the character is wearing to help give the reader a visual description so they can follow along in the book with better clarity. The Movie script helps me set the stage first for the story, which characters are in the scene ...

  Literary Fiction What is it?   Literary Fiction is usually filled with political and social issues along with psychological friction or conflict. The characters are dealing with some form of conflict associated with the above and lead the reader to a conclusion of revolution or a level of nuance that made the writer do some serious research to come up with a conclusion that helps the reader understand the issues at hand. Basically, this form of writing is Character driven – like them or not. As a writer, you must think seriously about how you will write this type of prose and remember that reading world issues can have real-world consequences. Since I have never written Literary Fiction, I turned to a writer friend of mine and asked them to give me a sample idea for me to reference in this piece and they suggested I use The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. The main characters in the books are Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, Primrose Everdeen, Gale Hawthorne, Haymitch Ab...

  Should you copyright your work? Yes or No? If you’ve written a book, a movie script or even a song, created an artistic drawing, painting, or produced a photograph you need to copyright your work immediately. Whether you produced fiction nonfiction poetry, a reference book or a textbook, you need to copyright your work. This would also include any photographs to which you plan to sell, you’ve created coding for a computer program, produced material for a website or online store, your artwork, technical drawings, you’ve recorded a song or created a sound recording, what about you’ve written a song, a screenplay or a script, feature film, documentary, animated film, television show, or video, you need to copyright your work. It’s pretty simple how to copywrite your work, go to the copyright office website using this link U.S. Copyright Office | U.S. Copyright Office ,   click on the tab that says registration and fill out the form. Pay your fee, it will tell you how to pay...

  Publishing Trends in 2024 The publishing industry is not wise nor is it important enough to consider trends that emerge each year. However. it does reshape the way books are sold and consumed by the public.    Now that we’re in 2024 let’s look at how publishing trends are going to redefine the new journey for authors this year.   The publishing industry is currently undergoing a transformation, embracing a more inclusive and diverse approach to voice and storytelling. Authors no longer have sole control over how their stories are presented; instead, publishers are taking the lead in determining the narrative direction. For instance, publishers now insist on incorporating gay sexual interactions for any depiction of intimacy, requiring main characters to be of black or interracial backgrounds regardless of the story's context. This shift aims to create a literary landscape that reflects the diverse tapestry of human experiences, even if it challenges an aut...

 So you want to write a Sci-Fi Book? I’ve never been able to create a world where aliens lived, so I will never be able to write a Science Fiction Book worthy of publishing. Now give me a murder mystery or political drama and I’ll run circles around you, but sci-fi no way. However, I do know how to write a book, after all I’ve written five of them already and am working on a new series now. So, I can tell you how to write a book, so let’s get started with Sci-Fi fun. Let’s start by asking ourselves a few questions: Does your world have a believable structure that your audience will expect? Don’t neglect your characters by not giving your readers their background story. Have you read enough science fiction novels to understand the realm of what science fiction could be? Science fiction followers are meticulous in what they expect in a storyline. So be sure to know your audience and what they will expect from you as a writer. Also know your subgenres so you plug your work...