Todd Klick
American writer
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Todd Klick is an American author and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. His book, Something Startling Happens: The 120 Story Beats Every Writer Needs To Know became a #1 bestseller on Amazon.com for Screenwriting and Writing Skills.[1][2] It is also a bestseller for his publisher, Michael Wiese Publications.[3] Klick is also the author of the eBook The Screenwriter's Fairy: The Universal Story Within All Movie Stories (a very brief fable), which has also been #1 on Amazon for Screenwriting.,[4][5] and is a contributing author for the #1 bestselling Tarcher-Penguin book, Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror: Speculative Genre Exercises from Today’s Best Writers and Teachers.[6]
- Author of Something Startling Happens: The 120 Story Beats Every Writer Needs To Know
- Screenwriter of Followed (2019)
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| Born | Todd Klick Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Occupations | Writer, Screenwriter, Producer, Director |
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Klick leads seminars at screenwriting conferences and symposiums[7][8] and is a contributor to The Huffington Post[9] and MovieMaker.[10]
Early life
Klick grew up in rural Pennsylvania, which he writes about in his Huffington Post article, Goodbye Ray Bradbury, My Friend.[11]
Something Startling Happens
Something Startling Happens: The 120 Story Beats Every Writer Needs To Know is a minute-by-minute analysis of successful movies and what their stories share in common each minute. It reached #1 on Amazon for Screenwriting and Writing Skills in December 2011 after its October 2011 release, and has been a consistent best-seller in that genre.[12]
The book was inspired by Blake Snyder's book on screenwriting, Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need.[13]
The Screenwriter's Fairy Tale
The nonfiction ebook The Screenwriter's Fairy Tale: The Universal Story Within All Movie Stories (a very brief fable) is a 13-page ebook fable that shows how archetypal story patterns work in each act of a screenplay.[14]
Works
Filmography
Bibliography
Articles
- How Spielberg And Shakespeare Found Their Groove, Huffington Post (2012)[20]
- Something Startling Happens (The Missing Chapter), The Writer's Store (2012)[21]
- Goodbye Ray Bradbury, My Friend, Huffington Post (2012)[22]
- 10 Beats To A Better Beginning, MovieMaker (2012)[23]