About the Book

In this classic bestselling screenwriting guide—now revised and updated—author and film consultant Viki King helps students go from blank page to completed manuscript through a series of clever and simple questions, ingenious writing exercises, and easy, effective new skills.

Viki King's Inner Movie Method is a specific step-by-step process designed to get the story in your heart onto the page. This method doesn’t just show how to craft a classic three-act story but also delves into how to clarify the idea you don't quite have yet, how to tell if your idea is really a movie, and how to stop getting ready and start. Once you know what to write, the Inner Movie Method will show you how to write it. 

How to Write a Movie in 21 Days, first published in 1987, has been translated in many languages around the world and has become an industry-standard guide for filmmakers both in Hollywood and internationally.

Critical Praise

“Here’s the real secret, this book isn’t about writing—well it is, but really, it’s about living. Living with grace and blossoming in whatever pot you’re planted.” — Ellen Sandler, Author of The TV Writer’s Workbook, Co-Executive Producer of Everybody Loves Raymond

“Viki King is the film Oracle. Don’t do a movie without her.”
— Stephen Simon, Producer s>Somewhere in Time, What Dreams May Come

“Channeling both the head and the heart is the difficult challenge all writers must face—Viki King knows the secrets of this challenge, and shares them generously in this delightful—and so practical—guide for screenwriters." — Maureen Foster, author of Alien in the Mirror: Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Glazer, and Under the Skin 

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Product Details

• ISBN: 9780062995834
• ISBN 10: 0062995839
• Imprint: Harper Paperbacks
• On Sale: 08/18/2020
• Trimsize: 5.310 in (w) x 8.000 in (h) x 0.470 in (d)
• Pages: 208
• List Price: $17.99
• BISAC1 : PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Screenwriting
• BISAC2 : PERFORMING ARTS / Television / Screenwriting
• BISAC3 : PERFORMING ARTS / Screenplays