Multiple Award-Winning Screenwriter Michael Tabb's new paradigm for screenwriting
Part One of an interview with multiple award-winning screenwriter Michael Tabb, author of “Prewriting Your Screenplay. Other books on screenwriting “explain things but don’t provide their readers-who-would-be-writers a set of logical instructions to follow or exercises to complete that fill those gaping holes." SCREENWRITERS WORLD: How did you break into the industry? MICHAEL TABB: I didn’t get my first significant foot in the door at a Hollywood-networking event or seminar. The first screenplay I ever wrote landed me a fan that I met casually at Stephen S. Wise Temple near the 101 Freeway exit at Skirball / Mulholland Drive at the top of the hill. One minute, we’re dovening a few meaningful Jewish prayers, and the next, we’re chatting about film. I think it helps that I really know the Hebrew prayers and have a musical theater style singing voice. It’s not subtle. That fan sent my script to a manager that he knew. She signed me. The manager sent it to a production com