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Writing on Your Feet

by Frank Catalano

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Improvisational exercises for writers moving from page to screen

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Improvisational exercises for writers moving from page to screen

Drawn from a seminar presented at San Diego State University’s 25th Annual Writer’s Conference, Writing on Your Feet presents improvisational techniques in a writing-focused format. Its stated context is the adaptation of novels into screenplays, placing the book alongside practical concerns of character, dialogue, and story development for the screen. At 48 pages, it appears as a compact installment within Frank Catalano’s broader conference-seminar series, whose related sessions address opening pages, structure, adaptation, acting-based exercises, and dialogue. The book’s workshop origins make it a focused resource centered on using improvisation as part of the writing process.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Writers exploring improvisational approaches to developing material
  • Novelists interested in adapting work for screenplays
  • Screenwriting learners seeking a brief workshop-based resource

Themes

ImprovisationScreenplay adaptationWriting craftCharacter and dialogue development

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Book overview

WRITING ON YOUR FEET - IMPROVISATIONAL TECHNIQUES FOR WRITERS was first presented as part of the 25th Annual Writer's Conference sponsored by San Diego State University on February 6 through the 8th, 2009 at the Double Tree Hilton Hotel in Mission Hills, California by Frank Catalano as part of the programs offered at the conference. Writers of fiction and non-fiction and industry professionals from the publishing business primarily attended the 25th Annual Writer's Conference. Mr. Catalano's seminars focused upon those writers seeking to adapt their novels into screenplays. The complete list of seminar presentations by Frank Catalano for this conference is: BOOK 1: WRITE GREAT CHARACTACTERS IN THE FIRST TEN PAGES BOOK 2: WRITING ON YOUR FEET - IMPROVISATIONAL TECHNIQUES FOR WRITERS BOOK 3: START YOUR STORY AT THE END BOOK 4: THE FIRST TEN PAGES BOOK 5: BOOK TO SCREEN BOOK 6: ACTING IT OUT - IMPROVISATIONAL TECHNIQUES FOR WRITERS II BOOK 7: WRITE GREAT DIALOGUE
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