Genevieve Jolliffe & Chris Jones have written several books packed full of useful information for filmmakers including The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook which weighs in at 720 pages. Here’s one little Q&A from the book.
Q-What single piece of advice would you offer?
Dov S. S. Simens: Read 200 scripts this year. If you don’t you will fail. If you read lots, you will be in a better position to go forward to write a screenplay, or to hire someone to write for you.
Years ago when I lived in LA in the days before the Internet if I wanted to read a script I used to stop by AFI’s library, pay $15 to buy one, or see what the Burbank library had.
These days it is much easier to read scripts since there are many places that offer them online (Drew’s Script-O-Rama). So the lesson for the day is less TV, less video gaming and Internet, and more script reading.
Screenwriting from Iowa 
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