title: Top Secrets: Screenwriting
author: Jurgen Wolff
description: Top Secrets: Screenwriting is the ideal reference work on writing for the highly competitive, and often highly lucrative, screenwriting market. Offering a blend of biographies and interviews with successful screenwriters, and actual script samples, the aspiring screenwriter can get a true feeling for what is involved and what the demands are in his or her chosen profession. Featured writers include Michael Blake (Dances With Wolves); Jim Cash (Top Gun); Mary Agnes Donoghue (Paradise); Nicholas Kazan (Reversal of Fortune); William Kelley (Witness); Todd W. Langen (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles); Bruce Joel Rubin (Ghost); Tom Schulman (Dead Poets Society); S. S. Wilson &amp; Brent Maddock (Short Circuit); David Zucker (Naked Gun). -- <i>Midwest Book Review</i>
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  # Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Copyright Information](copyright.xhtml)
  
  
  * [1\. A Hostage for Pablo](chapter_001.xhtml)
  
  
  * [2\. A Tough Hombre Trapped](chapter_002.xhtml)
  
  
  * [3\. Pablo Lopez Takes a Hand](chapter_003.xhtml)
  
  
  * [4\. Sloan Interrupts](chapter_004.xhtml)
  
  
  * [5\. A Reunion at Blunt's](chapter_005.xhtml)
  
  
  * [6\. A Chip on His Shoulder](chapter_006.xhtml)
  
  
  * [7\. Jim Budd and Sloan Agree to Bury the Past](chapter_007.xhtml)
  
  
  * [8\. Sandra Speaks Out](chapter_008.xhtml)
  
  
  * [9\. Concerning a Gent on the Make](chapter_009.xhtml)
  
  
  * [10\. Sandra Guesses a Secret](chapter_010.xhtml)
  
  
  * [11\. Stan Fraser Buys Chips](chapter_011.xhtml)
  
  
  * [12\. Sloan Renews a Promise](chapter_012.xhtml)
  
  
  * [13\. McNulty Has a Bad Five Minutes](chapter_013.xhtml)
  
  
  * [14\. The Half-Pint Squirt Says His Piece](chapter_014.xhtml)
  
  
  * [15\. The Rangers Make a Call](chapter_015.xhtml)
  
  
  * [16\. Chandler Newman Talks](chapter_016.xhtml)
  
  
  * [17\. In a Lady's Bedroom](chapter_017.xhtml)
  
  
  * [18\. Enter