Saturday's Links to Writing & Marketing Blog Posts

CREATING A TREATMENT FOR YOUR BOOK TRAILER

By: Rachel Wilson

When my director friend Matt Miller said he wanted to direct a trailer for Don’t Touch, I did cartwheels. When he asked what my dream trailer might look like, I began to twitch and mumble.

Time for a treatment. Planning a book trailer can be daunting. If you’re working with a director or photographer, a treatment will put everyone on the same page. Even if you’re making the trailer all by your lonesome, a clear plan for what you intend to shoot is a must.

A treatment outlines what will be seen on screen—it gives a sense of tone and reads in present tense. Yours may look like a screenplay script, or it may read more like a synopsis of shots. The format is not so important as helping the team envision the final product and creating a guide for shooting.

Here are a few strategies based on what I learned while working on the trailer for Don’t Touch:

Ask what the central message is that you want viewers to take away from your trailer…

Read the full article HERE!

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If you missed my writing & marketing tweets and retweets yesterday, here they are again:

1. Five Misspelled Idioms http://ow.ly/Dz0TL
2. Karen Woodward: On Using Symbols In Your Story http://ow.ly/Dz10r
3. Anne R. Allen's Blog: Is Perfectionism Slowing Your Writing Process? 7 Ways NaNoWriMo Can Help http://ow.ly/Dz19u
4. Facebook ads: an Infographic http://ow.ly/Dz1my
5. Writing Our Region—Without Overdoing It - Elizabeth Spann Craig http://ow.ly/Dz1vG
6. Fiction University: Your Scene Needs a Problem http://ow.ly/DCcKd
7. The Aspiring TV Writer & Screenwriter Blog: Is Relatability Important in a Script? http://ow.ly/DCcVo
8. Studying nonfiction could be the key to creating the best fiction http://ow.ly/DCd61
9. Have You Been Forgetting Social Bookmarking? - Author Marketing Experts, Inc. http://ow.ly/DCdqM
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12. Writer Beware®: The Blog: A Hand in Your Pocket: Monetizing the Business of Writing http://ow.ly/DCe5w
13. Writing vs. Publishing | Behler Blog http://ow.ly/DCep1
14. Craft of Writing: Creating a Treatment for Your Book Trailer by Rachel Wilson http://ow.ly/DCeSt
15. I Was Checking You Out* | Confessions of a Mystery Novelist... http://ow.ly/DCfcj
16. Just Try It! Discovering New Social Media - Books & Such Literary Management : Books & Such Literary Management http://ow.ly/DCFsS
17. How to Wow Your Audience with the Right Image http://ow.ly/DCFEd
18. Facts of Fiction: Why Every Story Is An Escape Story | Write to Done http://ow.ly/DCFMp
19. How Romeo and Juliet Can Help You Write Your Next Book by Helen Sedwick — The Book Designer http://ow.ly/DCFU9
20. How to Plan and Create Captivating Visual Content http://ow.ly/DCG6o
21. 4 Ideas for Ending Book Chapters So Readers Will Kill to Know What Happens Next - Helping Writers Become Authors http://ow.ly/DCGoa
22. Anne R. Allen's Blog: Is Perfectionism Slowing Your Writing Process? 7 Ways NaNoWriMo Can Help http://ow.ly/DCGQD
23. Finding Your Beginning in “The End”: Dreaming of Writing a Perfect Opening | KayeDacus.com http://ow.ly/DCH3G
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26. The Seductive Trap of the Historical Novel - Storyfix.com http://ow.ly/DDn4J

Happy writing and running, Kathy