C J Walley - Turn & Burn: The Scriptwriter’s Guide to Writing Better Screenplays Faster

TURN AND BURN: THE SCRIPTWRITERS GUIDE TO WRITING BETTER SCREENPLAYS FASTER

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CJ Walley

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ISBN: 978-1-910515-91-4

Published in 2022 by Bennion Kearny Limited. Copyright CJ Walley.

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CJ Walleys here for the gritty movies, the rebellious movies, those films that pack a punch far harder than their budgets would suggest. 2012 was the year he started screenwriting from Staffordshire, England, and its been a hell of a ride, from his early scripts being featured by Amazon Studios to writing LA-based features Break Even starring Tasya Teles, James Callis, and Steve Guttenberg, Double Threat starring Danielle C. Ryan, Matthew Lawrence, and Dawn Olivieri, and Night Train starring Danielle C. Ryan, Diora Baird, Ivan Sergei, and Joe Lando, the last two of which he co-produced in partnership with multi Emmy-award winning filmmaker Shane Stanley, executive producer of the #1 Box Office hit Gridiron Gang for SONY Pictures starring Dwayne The Rock Johnson.

CJs all about the craft and all about the love. It doesnt matter to him if its Tarantino or Twilight; he always looks for the good in everything. As a huge fan of American New Wave films of the 70s and a child of the Independent Cinema Movement of the 90s, his big dream is to make cult films that showcase strong female characters in the truest sense of the term strong in character with the rebellious tone and gritty aesthetic of those eras. This is something hes in the process of doing through his production company Rebelle Rouser.

Hes also here to help change the industry, too, in any way he can and for the better. In 2016, frustrated by the costs and cliques that screenwriters and filmmakers face when trying to share or source material, he built and launched the free script hosting website Script Revolution, which has flourished into a thriving community consisting of over 11,000 screenwriters and industry members.

For more information, visit www.cjwalley.com

To John for convincing me my ideas werent terrible.

To Matt for telling me to revaluate my life and start writing.

To Rob and Sammi for getting through my early efforts.

To RB and Amanda for providing a place to grow.

To Sandra for first turning my words into reality.

To Shane for giving me my big break.

To Paul for always keeping me grounded

To Neil for showing me the coolest places in Hollywood.

To Lee for being a wise mentor in the land of make-believe.

To Joey for sticking with this struggle for as long as you could.

To James for having to proofread and edit my dyslexic ramblings.

To my mum, dad, sister, and family for never giving me anything

but unconditional support since day one of setting off on this

crazy adventure.

This book is what Bob Ross would call a happy accident. It started as a collection of notes I made after becoming frustrated with giving repeated advice over and over again in various online screenwriting communities. Nobody was really having the realistic conversations we needed to have about craft development, artistry, and career-building, while the same basic questions cycled around on a near-weekly basis. Those notes quickly became pages and those pages formed a very basic and quick to digest online guide that covered the bare essentials on screenwriting along with the story development process Id refined over many years.

While that guide helped many new writers, it was never really enough, and I knew it was never really enough. I had a lot more to share, and it was sitting on a bench next to a canal sipping coffee and talking all things automotive and cinematic with fellow writer, filmmaker, and publisher James Lumsden-Cook that an opportunity arose to finally address the issue.