> > I'm not sure how to get a lock on Score, Song, or the two Writing awards (although with the above twelve awards, you'll probably pick up one of the Writing ones).
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> Wow. If you (or anyone else) get Best Adapted Screenplay when you do this, can you tell me what book it is? I'll definitely give it a read.
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One of the books I'm reading is J. Michael Straczynski's _The Complete Book of Scriptwriting_, a very interesting book that doesn't just teach how to go about writing a script, but also about the histories of various media and what happens when you submit a script to a studio. Anyway, he mentions sneaking in the back door in the movie script chapter: writing your screenplay as a book first, then provide your script to Hollywood. As an example, JMS provides William Peter Blatty's _The Exorcist_.

Alternately, you work on the book and the screenplay at the same time. Offer the screenplay to the studios saying that your book is being considered by a publisher. Offer the book to the publishing houses and say that a screenplay based on the book is currently being marketed. If the book sells first, you can demand more money for the script; if the script sells, you demand more money for the book rights.

End result: You pick up the Writing (Adapted) award. Blatty did this in 1974, when the award was called "Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium".

-FP