Alligator Chews On Screenwriting

Online, January 1, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Los Angeles, California (EMSI PR) Are you looking to learn about film script writing, but don't have the time for a full screenwriting course? Do you have an unfulfilled instinct burning in you that you should explore your creativity? Now is the time to find out for yourself what people like Ron Howard, Paul Haggis, Morgan Freeman, Robin Wright and Jeff Bridges are saying about Riding The Alligator: Strategies For A Career in Screenplay Writing (And Not Getting Eaten). Written by successful Oscar Nominated Hollywood Producer-Writer-Director, Pen Densham.

Pen's films and television series have grossed over $1 billion to date. He has written Riding The Alligator with one clear goal in mind: to write the kind of creative screenwriting book he would have loved to have read when he was first beginning his career as a writer-filmmaker. This is the first book that explores both specific screenplay writing techniques, while simultaneously imparting industry-tested strategies for carving a successful, long term career.

In Riding the Alligator, Pen reveals his emotional philosophies and professional secrets, plus insights from his company, Trilogy Entertainment Group. Robin Wright says "Riding The Alligator is like getting a UC screenwriting course for $30!" Academy Award-winning writer/producer/director Paul Haggis calls Pen's advice "Something I wish I'd had when starting out." And Robert Mandel, Dean of AFI Conservatory hails it "An invaluable resource that is certain to become a must for all new screenwriters". Pen is also an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California's prestigious School of Cinematic Arts.

Unlike other screenwriting books Riding The Alligator is unique in that it explores both specific screenplay writing techniques, while simultaneously imparting industry-tested strategies for carving a successful, long term career selling scripts. With a Foreword by Jay Roach, director of mega-hit films such as Austin Powers, Meet The Parents and Dinner For Schmucks, Riding The Alligator is packed with a real Hollywood hit-maker's screenwriting tips and inspiring perspectives on overcoming the challenges of a working writer, from self-doubt, to creating stories, to how to pitch a screenplay to finding an agent.

The book also includes supportive essays from top Hollywood screenwriters including Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang), Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding), Eric Roth (Forrest Gump), Laeta Kalogridis (Avatar), Ron Shelton (Tin Cup), Robin Swicord (Memoirs of a Geisha) and Tony Peckham (Sherlock Holmes). As a founding partner of Trilogy Entertainment Group, Pen is responsible for writing and producing some of Hollywood's blockbusters, such as Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, along with some of its longest-running television series including the revival for seven years of The Outer Limits.

Since his first job in show business, riding atop a live alligator for a theatrical short film made by his parents, Pen decided to leave his English school system at age 15, and has since spent his lifetime in the business of entertainment, selling scripts, films and television series, as well as hiring, mentoring and consulting with many A-list writers and filmmakers along the way. If your goal is to sell a screenplay Riding The Alligator, by Pen Densham, is essential knowledge for carving a lasting and satisfying scriptwriting career. Find out more about the book, including helpful videos, forums, essays and resources at ridingthealligator.com.