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Summary: Quintessential Reading for any Screenwriter!
Review: I recommend this book to anyone wanting to get into this cutthroat industry. I learned the most from Ron Bass and Eric Roth. They have great insights within the book and I respect their work. The portion about acquiring an agent and outlining your script were particularly helpful to me. This is going into my amazing pile, next to "The Writers Journey" and "Immediate Fiction". 5/5!
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Summary: Simply the best of the best.
Review: I stumbled across this book and browsed through several pages, and being the cynic, expected another boring, recycled screenwriting book. It wasn't until I took it home that I began to fully appreciate what a gem of a book it really is. It reinforced many of the best ideas found in other books and also presented new information. There are many authors out there that are getting fat feeding off the millions of aspiring screenwriters with books that are stale, mistaken and formulaic. 101 Habits is a refreshing and honest book that belongs in its own category for excellence and quality. It will transform the way you approach your craft and the business side of the game. In many ways it is really several screenwriting books edited down into one masterpiece, with most of the information coming straight from the mouths of working screenwriters. Thank you for your fine effort Mr. Iglesias. Please write another.
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Summary: A book exploring how to be a screenwriter... for a change.
Review: If you want to learn how to write a script, you have plenty of books to choose from Field, McKee, Hauge, Seger, Hunter etc. Last time I checked, a search on screenwriting-related books yielded over 680 resuts! You gotta be kidding me! Anyone who's read even one book must know the rules by now, but how many know how to BE a screenwriter, especially a professional with the necessary skills to be a success in Hollywood? Check out this new book. It is literally about living the screenwriter's life, in the words of the top scribes in the biz. They share their habits, explore their writing environments and creative processes, and give us a glimpse of their daily passions and obsessions. It covers everything aspiring writers always wanted to know about what it's really like to be a screenwriter but never had the chance to ask a successful one... until now. A valuable addition to any writer's library of must-have books. Oh, and I almost forgot! There's a cool foreword by UCLA Professor Lew Hunter himself. Check it out... and "Write on! as he's so fond of saying.
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Summary: At last, what every aspiring screenwriter needs!!
Review: If you're anything like me, you're tired of reading book after book on how to write the winning screenplay. They all say the same thing because the fundamentals of story have been pretty much set by Aristotle in Poetics. The key is HOW to be the kind of screenwriter that's able to write the script that will set Hollywood on fire. And this where this new book comes in. There's nothing like it on the market, despite the fact that it's technically a set of interviews from 14 of the top screenwriters in Hollywood, and I'm talking A-list, CAA scribes, such as Ron Bass, Eric Roth, Leslie Dixon, Gerald DiPego, Akiva Goldsman, Niholas Kazan, and Scott Rosenberg to name a few! The uniqueness of this amazing book is the way it's structured. Instead of the traditional individual interview, the author has outlined 101 key habits, tips and skills with various screenwriters' comments under each one, reminding me of a panel of experts discussing a particular topic. Very helpful for me. My problem has always been discipline. After reading tons of books and going to seminars for years now, I know what to do, but how do I get myself to actually do it? No problem! I just flip to the chapter on discipline and read what the professionals are sharing with me on that frustrating issue. It's literally like having them as your mentors. And what aspiring writer wouldn't want to have this group of A-list writers as their mentors? Fourteen highly-successful screenwriters. 101 habits. The title says it all. If you're serious about a career as a screenwriter, get this book now. You won't be disappointed!
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Summary: Great book
Review: Packed with advice from some of the top writers working in the biz today. Great questions, great answers. I read this book over & over again, whenever I'm stuck, dipping into the appropriate section. Great book. Thanks, Karl.
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Summary: keeping the fire lit.
Review: There are dozens of books with advice on how to write a screenplay ranging from great advice to blueprints for the humdrum. There aren't enough good books to keep you doing what you need to do to succeed. Yglesias method makes this a good book to dip into. And he doesn't hide contradictory opinions. Better than coffee whether you need a lift on a day when your working or a kick in the keister on a day when you aren't
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Summary: A good "dip-in" book for the isolated writer
Review: Think of this book this way: it's you having a cup of tea with a bunch of good and not-so-good (but working) screenplay writers. This is not a formula for greatness, but rather a list of suggestions and experiences that you can greatly benefit from if you are so inclined.
Don't be put off by the cover. This is a good book. The best thing about it is it creates a sense of community and exchange of knowledge in what is essentially an isolated (and some might argue isolating) occupation.
This is a "dip-in" book which I find it useful and refer to often.
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Summary: Reading for process
Review: This book is without a doubt an interesting read. As one who already writes (though not necessarily or exclusively screenplays), I like it because it illustrates beautifully how every writer's process, goals, and priorities are different and equally valid because it works for that individual writer. This is a far cry from the endless and often contradictory "must-do's" in other writing books. What you find in this book is the amazing diversity of how writers write. I've seen similar books that interview novelists but this is far more entertaining, better organized and is chunked in digestable pieces.
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Summary: It was thrilling and an eye-opener to compare my habits...
Review: with those of the best in the business. Finally, I could see what I've been doing wrong all this time. This book is what I've been looking for forever. I'm now keeping it on my desk. When I'm stuck on something, I can easily access any topic and any top writer discussing the problem at hand. It's as if I had a Rolodex, where I can call up a highly successful writer and ask him or her to help me. Very practical.
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