Writing Treatments That Sell
How to Create and Market Your Story Ideas to the Motion Picture and TV Industry
As Hollywood insiders know, the first step in selling your story idea for film or television isn't writing a script - it's preparing a treatment, the brief pitch of a story that sells the concept to a busy producer or agent. In this accessible, entertaining guide, writer-producers Kenneth Atchity and Chi-Li Wong tell readers everything they need to know to create an effective and salable treatment, one that includes such key elements as conflict, likable characters, plot twists, a climax, and visual drama