The Coffee Break ScreenwriterBreaks the Rules: A Guide for the Rebel Writer

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March to a different drummer! Take risks. Make bold choices. Break the rules! But do it purposely and strategically, using The Coffee Break Screenwriter . . . Breaks the Rules as your guide, and create a script readers will remember.

Pilar Alessandra's popular book, The Coffee Break Screenwriter, taught writers how to outline quickly, write efficiently, and rewrite creatively. It's the 'go-to' book for getting one's story on the page. But now that same writer may be doing a final pass on a project, working with a producer, or coming up with a new project only to be hit with . . . RULES! Should the writer respond to this random list of dos and don'ts pertaining to structure, characters, dialogue, and formatting Nope.

Who says you have to follow the screenwriting rules In this book Pilar reviews the rules writer assume they should follow, discusses why they're there in the first place, and then shows you ways to creatively break them.

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Alessandra started her career as a senior story analyst at DreamWorks SKG. In 2001, she opened the Los Angeles-based On the Page Writers' Studio, dedicated to teaching and consulting with screenwriters and TV writers at all levels. She's the author of the popular scriptwriting book, The Coffee Break Screenwriter, and host of the "On the Page Podcast." An in-demand speaker, she's taught seminars at Disney Animation, ABC, CBS, and MTV, and traveled the world teaching in the UK, China, Poland, Vietnam, Colombia, Portugal, and South Africa. Pilar's greatest accomplishment is the success of her students, many of whom have won top competitions like the Academy Nicholl Fellowship, are working on TV shows such as The 100, Silicon Valley, and Grey's Anatomy, and have sold scripts and pitches to studios including DreamWorks, Warner Bros., and Disney.