Adventures in Screenwriting: How One Writer Navigates the Dire Straits

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Written by Selin Sevinç

Narrated by the Author

ISBN 9783952540022

Runtime: 5 hours 17 mins

Publication date: 01.02.2022

Language: English

Publisher: Adventurous Media

Chapter Listing

  • Opening Credits

  • A Bad Idea

  • The Thing About Screenwriting People Don’t Talk About

  • Story Is the Thing

  • The Practice of NOT Writing

  • Process!

  • Research: The Valley of Possibilities at Your Fingertips

  • The Beat Sheet, the Board: All That Jazz

  • Words on the Page

  • The Draft Theory

  • Feedback Gathering: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

  • Rewrite Your Heart Out

  • The Benefits of Having Multiple Projects on the Go

  • Submissions: The Chamber of Death

  • The Head-Spinning Breaking-in Scenarios and Strategies

  • Example of Process: An Elaborate Rewrite Story

  • Example of Process: A Co-writing Adventure, aka, a Journey Into Real Life

  • The Noise, the Horror

  • What I’ve Said to Others

  • Personality as Blessing and Threat

  • A Real-Life Script Deconstruction of My Story: A Mother and Aspiring

  • Screenwriter’s Plea: WTF Am I Doing Wrong Here!?

  • Tension Is Everything

  • Closing Credits

 

Honest, raw and very funny, this book will take you on an emotional joyride through a screenwriter’s creative processes, her pitfalls and breakthroughs, where the boundaries between art and life are blurred.

Aspiring screenwriter, script consultant and festival programmer Selin Sevinç's musings on the elusive art of screenwriting reveal the psychological landscape of her writing process. Her darkly amusing tales of homelife and motherhood in the US and her own childhood growing up in Turkey seep into the narrative, as she battles with her writing demons.

Sevinç demonstrates a deep technical knowledge of the craft as she guides you through the writing journey from nurturing story ideas to putting words on the page, with the ultimate goal of breaking into the film industry. Her personal reflections, frustrations and inspirations illuminate the unique and charming perspective of one stubborn writer.

Born and raised in Turkey, Selin Sevinç studied filmmaking in the UK. As a screenwriter she was selected to take part in Berlinale Talents in 2009. As a film critic she participated in Cannes and Berlinale and worked as a script consultant on international projects through her website, magicofstory.com.

Since writing this book she has indeed found producers for two of her screenplays, one of which entered the Netflix-BANFF Media Festival’s Pitch Program. She is currently Head of Programming at BendFilm Festival, continues to write screenplays for film and TV, along with raising two quirky children with a grumpy husband in a very cool Oregonian town.

Selin Sevinç

 

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About the Publisher

Adventurous Media, based in Zurich, Switzerland, is an audio-first producer and publisher, creating both original and licensed audio in podcast and audiobook formats. The company was founded in early 2021 by Michael Reaney, a British audio producer, musician and sound designer. In addition Michael to working on several award-winning digital projects for clients including BBC and Channel 4, Michael has worked across the creative industries in a number of roles, including as manager of the regional film agency Isle of Man Film, for the Swiss Arts Council, and as a digital arts festival director.

A slate of non-fiction and fiction audio is currently in development. Further releases and more information can be found at:

www.adventurous.media

 

Media Enquiries

For queries or interview requests with the author, please contact:

Michael Reaney - Managing Director, Adventurous Media
t: + 41 (0) 43 538 0870 info@adventurous.media