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Don't worry about a producer, agent, or creative executive tossing your script at page ten. Use the Your Screenplay Sucks! checklist to eliminate the flaws in your script for a pedal-to-the-metal, cover-to-cover read. In today’s highly competitive story market, this is the only book that finds the flaws in your script — like a heat-seeking missile — and shows you how to eliminate them.
“William M. Akers is a renaissance man of film who is at once a big studio writer, independent writer/director, and caring, insightful teacher. He also knows every trick in the book when it comes to fixing a script. And this is that book! A must for any writer facing 'the dark night of the script'.” –Blake Snyder, author, Save the Cat!™, Save the Cat!™ Goes to the Movies "Don't take it personal; your screenplay does suck. Almost all screenplays suck until you beat them into shape. William M. Akers's book is an excellent guide through the pitfalls and easy mistakes that first-time screenwriters face. His advice is honest and simple. He will make your screenplay suck less — as long as you're willing to do the work." –Larry Karaszewski, writer, Ed Wood, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Man on the Moon “Don’t even think about writing a screenplay without reading your Screenplay Sucks!!” –Linda McCullough, Columbia College Chicago “A book about screenwriting that reads like a good screenplay. It is so full of great stories,examples and advice that I couldn’t put it down.” –Tom Schulman, Academy® Award-Winning Screenwriter, Dead Poets Society, Screenwriter, Honey I Shrunk The Kids, What About Bob? "If Mark Twain wrote screenplays, this is the advice book he'd write." –Jon Amiel, director, The Singing Detective, Entrapment
William M. Akers, a Lifetime Mentor of the Writers Guild of America, has had three feature films produces from his screenplays. His 105º and Rising, about the fall of Saigon, is in pre-production. |
