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THE L.A. Free Screenwriter or Novel Writer’s CO-OP

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Learn from us, we who went before you

The BEST WAY to write and sell a novel or screenplay, non-fiction book or even an article will be covered below. We invite all you writers out there, both paid, unpaid, published, unpublished, amateur and pro.... to read, be inspired, then participate and contribute your take on writers and writing so we all get published. Well if not by NYC and HOLLYWOOD, then right here, ONLINE!

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NUTS AND BOLTS OF WRITING

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NOW, we want to get started writing. THE ART OF PLOTTING.   HOW to come up with a PLOT

THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF CREATIVITY by RK MOORE (highly technical article)

HOW TO FIGHT Writer’s BLOCK

HOW TO WRITE A SCREENPLAY -- the actual inspiration, then the execution.

THE POLITICALLY RELEVANT SCREENPLAY -Profitable? A good idea for a first time writer? 

SPOTTING THE RELEVANT IDEA in THE NEWS

HOW does one FIND a hot POLITICAL IDEA worthy of a script?

THE POLITICALLY RELEVANT AUTHOR, SINA QUA NON, DANIEL SILVA  The new PRINCE, after FREDERIC FORSYTH THE KING paved the way

How to QUERY a book company so they answer you, & take you seriously!

The Art of writing a Synopsis, Logline, To submit to publisher or Film Producer.

HOW TO HUSTLE THE FINISHED SCRIPT

WRITE A FILM WITH A MESSAGE? HOW?

SMART GAL USES UNUSUAL METHOD TO BREAK INTO HOLLYWOOD

MAKE YOUR OWN VIDEO OR FILM, THEN FIND a  DISTRIBUTOR 
 

HOW TO RAISE THE MONEY FOR YOUR FILM BUDGET

ENJOY FURTHERING YOUR THEATRICAL CAREER in a GROUP OR TEAM, SCHOOL ROOM SETTING! WHY SHOULD FILM SCHOOL COST AN ARM AND A LEG? CREATE a FREE ACTING CLASS (directors/ writers and Video DP’s, too) CALL IT “THE ACTORS’ CO-OP” or the FILM COMMUNE, basically it’ a FILM SCHOOL……. DO THIS IN YOUR TOWN and guaranteed, & YOU WILL BE  HOLLYWOOD BOUND!  (*clickable URL!) And learn HOW TO START A COMEDY CO-OP

If you've ever felt you belong in the arts.... if you've wondered why coaches charge so DAMN much....If you want to write, direct, act or be a D.P, .....PRACTICE AND LEARN and GET BETTER AND BETTER, WITH "SCHOOL FORCE." YOUR GOLDEN MOMENT IS HERE!ENJOY FURTHERING YOUR CAREER and that of your compatriots in your town! BE HOLLYWOOD BOUND! Create A FREE ACTORS' WORKSHOP with directors, writers, VIDEO DP’s, like the historic repertory, MERCURY THEATRE was for ORSON WELLES! Film TV commercials for local businesses to make money. Function as an ad agency for them, designing and executing commercials.

SNAP UP YOUR SCRIPT! Give it a BIG MACGUFFIN!

TEACH THE KIDDIES what is REALLY GOING ON with  MOVIES!

COPYRIGHT LAW, From the Motley Fool

HOW TO CALL DOWN YOUR MUSES!

HOW TO PRODUCE your SCRIPT without LOSING YOUR MIND!

NEWSPAPER SYNDICATES, HOW TO REACH THEM

Special Problems of a BEAUTIFUL GIRL

CELEBRITY WORSHIP, A PROBLEM FOR ANYONE ENTERING SHOW BIZ?

AGEISM, or….CAN A GERIATRIC LIKE ME MAKE IT IN HOLLYWOOD OR NY PUBLISHING?

THERE ARE TWELVE KINDS OF WRITERS. WHICH ARE YOU? 

How to Select an ANGLE OF ENTRY for your script. AND A FEW WRITERS' TRICKS  for creating extra penetrating prose!

How to spot a hot story and structure it;  CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING.

HUSTLING THE BOOK to PUBLISHING INDUSTRY/ AGENTS

THE ADVANCES that the PUBLISHING INDUSTRY PAYS TODAY 2-4 million but GUESS WHAT THEY PAY FOR A FIRST TIME WRITER's ADVANCE

WRITING a LUCRATIVE “FLICKwith the information you have vs. WRITING AN ARTICLE THAT IS TAKEN SERIOUSLY. Or, what if Michael Crichton had done a DNA article on anti-deluvian reptiles for National Geographic instead of that Tyrannosaurus Rex movie, JURASSIC PARK? Huh? 750 bucks and ‘in and out burger!’ (California vernacular as it’s  a local burger chain.) Meaning ‘you’re over with in a second.’

TAKE a FAMED Author’s FREE ONLINE WRITING SEMINAR.

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THE GREAT BOOKS & How to use a USED BOOK SHOP!

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AMIN MAALOUF -“LEO AFRICANUS” and many others. Lebanese journalist and novelist, whose native language was Arabic but who writes in French. Most of Maalouf's books have a historical setting, and like Umberto Eco, Orhan Pamuk, and Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Maalouf mixes fascinating historical facts with fantasy and philosophical ideas

COLIN WILSON, an all round talent, a novelist, science fiction writer and non-fiction researcher into very odd subjects, psychicism, (and psychos) great minds of great authors and teachers.   EDMUND WILSON, MY FAVE BOOK OF ALL

ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER, an INTERESTING story teller, extremely readable, pungent and deep.
 

SCIENCE FICTION GREATS Read these boys, learn what they know then do what they do. A single, high concept short story can sell to Hollywood and earn you a million.

MYSTERY WRITING- The most addictive fiction that readers can find, people who are into it have to buy four books a week for life. GUARANTEED SALES!

Writing the THRILLER – Much more of a rara avis than mysteries, ergo highly saleable.

LUCRATIVE WAY TO READ FOR FREE --USING INTERNET USED BOOK VENDORS, & USE your LOCAL USED BOOK SHOP!  

The Technique for ORDERING BOOKS at ABES that really saves you money! But more importantly, gets you exactly the authors you want to read!

SENIOR WRITERS :   FRANK MC COURT PUBLISHED “ANGELA’s ASHES” AT AGE 66

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