Crazy Screenwriting Secrets: How to Capture a Global Audience

This July 1, 2019, from the publisher of SAVE THE CAT! and THE WRITERS JOURNEY, Weiko Lin debuts CRAZY SCREENWRITING SECRETS: How to Capture a Global Audience. The "crazy" secrets unveil what it takes to launch successful global movies that reflect the modern world. Through a culinary approach, Lin helps readers understand narratives in feature films and tap into their own unique taste buds to create meaningful stories for the screen. The first half of the book guides the reader in how to create and develop: Story Idea, Characters, One Page Step Outline, and the solid script. In the second half, the book covers professional business side of the ever-changing industry by taking the reader through the work flow of Hollywood and explores how to work creatively with international countries like China in producing movies that resonate with a universal audience. “Motivating and exuberant, Weiko understands the personal nature of screenwriting. His book provides a roadmap to finding the unique stories each person has to tell and creating screenplays that live and breathe.” — David S. Goyer, co-writer Terminator: Dark Fate, The Dark Knight trilogy