All beginning screenwriters make the same mistakes. Because nobody in Hollywood will give your screenplay a second chance, it better be perfect the first time out. Screenplay book after screenplay book will tell you how to “find your inner structure...” but which screenwriting books tell you not to have character names that rhyme?

Your Screenplay Sucks! is a comprehensive checklist of fatal errors most screenwriters make...

                  ... and the tools to fix them.

I’ve written screenplays for twenty years. Had three made so far. I’ve been critiquing them for nearly that long. I wrote the screenwriting book because I saw the same mistakes over and over and over. My idea was, “Here, do this checklist and then give me your script. That way we can talk about character and structure and not “get your people off the phone and in a room together” and “separate the character’s voices.” Stuff it took me years to figure out on my own...
William M. Akers

“Your Screenplay Sucks -- but William Akers doesn't -- although he does have a smooth tongue that makes it a pleasure to read his bitingly sharp and insightful book.  He tells you the stuff other script writing books don't so you can really get ahead.”
Michael Davis, director: SHOOT 'EM UP

“William M. Akers is a renaissance man of film who is at once a big studio screenwriter, independent writer/director, and caring, insightful teacher. He also knows every trick in the book when it comes to fixing a script. And this is that book! A must for any writer facing ‘the dark night of the script.’”
Blake Snyder, writer: Save the Cat!, Save the Cat! Goes to the Movies

“Among the many books on screenwriting, William M. Akers' Your Screenplay Sucks! 100 Ways To Make It Great is a clear standout. His hundred ways range from the inspirational to the procedural to the minutely practical, but they are all inordinately useful.  Whatever other books you own on the craft of screenwriting, this one needs to be among them.”
Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize winning author of From Where You Dream

“A book about screenwriting that reads like a good screenplay. It is so full of great stories, examples and advice that I couldn't put it down.”
Tom Schulman, Academy Award winning Screenwriter: Dead Poets Society, Honey I Shrunk The Kids, What About Bob?

“William M. Akers defies the old adage that those who can’t, teach. He’s both a great writer and a great teacher - in my experience a combination as rare as rocking horse doo doo. Your Screenplay Sucks lays out in crystal clear language all the things that most screenwriters have learned the hard way but don’t want you to know because why should you have it easy? This book is a lifetime of lessons in the screen trade recounted by someone with the intelligence to see, the talent to understand and the generosity to share - laid out with the engaging and deceptive ease of a natural-born storyteller.  If Mark Twain wrote screenplays this is the advice book he’d write.”
Jon Amiel, Director: The Singing Detective, Entrapment

“If you want a pat-you-on-the-back, inspirational book on writing, read Chicken Soup For the Writer’s Soul. If you want the sucker-punch-you-in-your-throat, down and dirty truth about screenwriting for Hollywood, read Your Screenplay Sucks!”
Linda McCullough, Columbia College, Chicago

“Don’t take it personal, your screenplay does SUCK. Almost all screenplays suck until you beat them into shape. William M. Akers’s book is an excellent guide through the pitfalls and easy mistakes that first time screenwriters face. His advice is honest and simple. He will make your screenplay suck less... As long as you’re willing to do the work.”
Larry Karaszewski, writer: Ed Wood, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Man On The Moon

“A thoughtful guide to finding your way out of the many creative culsdesac that bedevil the form.” 
John Requa, writer: Bad Santa, Bad News Bears

“A well written recipe for avoiding the mistakes which young or inexperienced screenwriters often make... It is a luminous guide and light is, after all, what we are after.” 
Benedict Fitzgerald, writer: Wise Blood, The Passion Of The Christ