Screenwriting 101: How to Sell Your Screenplay in Hollywood

Join over 100,000 students learning from our courses. Most seminars and books attempt to teach the frustrated screenwriter what to do and what not to do; this course will outline how to do it - how to develop habits that will lead to more joy in the writing process and better scripts. The only way to guarantee a script request is to interest and excite the listener with your pitch.

Presenting techniques from the most successful pitchers in the biz, author Karl Iglesias shows students how to ignite the executive's interest. Topics include: An insider's view of the do's and don'ts of pitching to producers. The essential elements of a great pitch.

How to distill your story into a pitchable and enticing logline. How to develop your verbal confidence by practicing your pitch until it shines. You also learn how to deepen the reader's response.

A must for any writer who's mastered the basics but has yet to break the barrier. Focusing on the key ingredient of all successful scripts - the reader's emotional response - UCLA screenwriting instructor Karl Iglesias shows students fresh ways to evoke emotion on every page of their scripts. Why emotion is the key to successful screenwriting.