title: The Three Stages of Screenwriting
author: Douglas J. Eboch
description: Douglas J. Eboch is a professional screenwriter and script doctor who wrote the original screenplay for the movie "Sweet Home Alabama." He has written plays ("Sleepover at the Stable"), video games ("Nightmare Cove"), novels ("Aftermath: Kodiak & Dawn") and a television pilot ("The MOFF Shoppe"). He was awarded the Carl Sautter Screenwriting Award for Best New Voice in feature films. A graduate of USC film school, he now teaches screenwriting and pitching to a new generation of writers at ArtCenter College of Design and workshops all over the world.
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  THE PROCESS
  
  OF SCREENWRITING
  
  Clive Frayne
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2019 Clive Frayne
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  ISBN: 9781083083012
  
  
  
  
  
  This book is dedicated to every dyslexic writer who writes despite
  
  the struggle. The writers who have anxiety over every typo and
  
  weird use of grammar. Your dyslexia gives you a unique take
  
  on language. No one will ever write the way you do.
  
  This book is dedicated to every working-class writer
  
  who writes despite feeling like an imposter. You have
  
  experienced things that most writers will never understand.
  
  Your past is your strength.
  
  This book is dedicated to every outsider.
  
  Your perspective on the world is uniquely yours.
  
  
  
  
  
  preface
  
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  7 Steps
  
  This is a book about the process of planning and writing a film or TV script.
  
  You have an idea. Your write your script. It’s not perfect. So, you analyse
  the problems. Then you rewrite. For many screenwriters this is the process you
  go through to write a finished scr