If you’ve ever wanted to pick the brains of screenwriting legends, I highly recommend picking up The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insider Secrets from Hollywood’s Top Writers by Karl Iglesias. This book departures from 99% of all screenwriting books out there, because it doesn’t focus on dropping salacious secrets of structure and story – it’s more a candid, heart to heart interview with fourteen writers at the top of their game. What’re their credentials? Try Munich, The Insider, Dead Poets Society, Die Hard, High Fidelity, Memoirs of a Geisha and A Beautiful Mind. Is your inner fan-child swooning yet?
Ever wondered what the day of a professional screenwriter looks like? What hours work best for their muse, what their office and desk looks like, the volume of material they write – how many scripts per year they finish? If you think you have what it takes to excel at a job notoriously difficult to break into but endlessly rewarding, this book gives you valuable insight into the level you need to be writing at in order to make the sales, and what to expect when you script does get attention. While each writer had tremendous quotable fodder – I’ll sum it up with the wisdom they begin the book with:
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle
Micah Moss is a Screenwriter, Director, Actor and Visual Artist who lives in L.A. – and frequently enjoys writing like a banshee.
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