Today on the present we now have screenwriter and script physician, John Winston Rainey. John is the co-author, together with legendary script advisor Linda Seger, of the ebook You Talkin’ to Me?: How to Write Great Dialogue
John had been a author within the movie trade for 35 years and received the Writers’ Guild award for finest script. He had additionally been head of the inventive division for 3 completely different studios. He is the writer of the best-selling ebook, “The Perfect Pitch.” He tutored John on how you can write screenplays that promote, and all of John’s appearing and directing expertise gave him the power to research dramatic writing with a wonderful eye and ear.
In the March/April 2003 problem of Creative Screenwriting (vol.10; #2), John’s deeply closeted script evaluation service was outed when he was rated the # 1 analyst within the nation. Overnight, he was flooded with work. What an astounding expertise! Instead of screwing up his braveness to name producers, they had been calling him! And there’s nothing higher for studying the craft of screenwriting than to research tons and plenty of scripts and discover methods of fixing the distractions. John began getting a fame as an ideal script physician.
As a outcome, he not solely turned a script advisor in excessive demand, however he has additionally taken quite a few choices (offers) on a lot of his personal spec screenplays. He is informed continuously that his scripts are straightforward reads and he attributes that to the writing fashion that he has developed, which he shares along with his purchasers, in addition to his tales. Even if producers flip down one in all his scripts, they continuously ask for different scripts that he has written. He has been via many improvement (rewriting with the producer) processes. Taking assignments and doing rewrites have been thrilling inventive measures of his craft.
Enjoy my dialog with John Winston Rainey.
