Write: Treatments To Sell: Create and Market Your Story Ideas to the Motion Picture and TV Industry by Wong Chi-Li & Atchity Kenneth

Author:Wong, Chi-Li & Atchity, Kenneth [Wong, Chi-Li]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Story Merchant Books
Published: 2013-05-28T16:00:00+00:00

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Stranger than Fiction:

Treatments Based on True Stories

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’Tis strange — but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction.

— Lord Byron, Don Juan

T rue stories drive the networks’ and cable broadcasters’ schedules and capture the imagination of motion picture filmmakers. The ongoing appeal of reality-based drama, coupled with a continual need for product, makes this an ideal area for the unproduced writer to break into. Being able to say that your treatment is “a true story,” “based on a true story,” or “inspired by a true story,” gives your story immediate marketing strength.

Yet in order to sell it, even the true story must have all the story elements outlined in previous chapters:

a protagonist we can root for

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