Product Description

Publisher Marketing: A step-by-step guide, filled with in-depth exercises and breakthrough processes, this book will equip artists and entertainment professionals with the spiritual tools and techniques to make their everyday walk in the business a more purposeful and prosperous adventure. Rydall empowers readers to achieve their dreams and create material that has a postive impact on the planet.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #639163 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 237 pages

Review
Rydall not only breaks down all the rules of the Hollywood game -so that you know how it's played and don't get kicked down the field - he also lays out the spiritual truths that will help you transcend them, tap into your true power, and fulfill your higher purpose. -- Mark Harris, Producer, Crash, Academy Award, Best Picture, 2006 "Advance Review"

Customer Reviews

Heart and Soul and Treasure Map
Everyone knows that the best stories, movies, TV-shows or entertainment of any kind "gotta have heart." Yet, ironically, most writers and creators focus so much attention on the structures, plots and other ingredients that make up the "skin and bones" of their projects that they end up with Frankenstein-like results, and, sadly, careers that don't make it far from the lab. Finally, script doctor Derek Rydell guides you on a step-by-step journey for restoring the heart and soul of your creative projects by getting to the heart and soul of you! Tapping into this elixir has the alchemical power to turn your projects into gold. This book is a one-of-a-kind treasure map that helps you unearth the one-of-a-kind treasure that is YOU! It's the first time I read a "Hollywood How-To" book that gave me more than a fraction of a useful, implementable idea...WAY MORE. If you like 'movie-style' pitches: It's kinda like "The Secret" meets "The Artist's Way." You're attracted to it! Admit it! Get it!
-Bill Lae, Writer, Director, "SuperGuy: Behind the Cape"
Superguy: Behind the Cape

Keep Your Soul in Check - Great Book!
Every season I watch "American Idol." I don't much care for when they get to the final 12, I enjoy watching the auditions and "Hollywood Week." What amazes me about "Hollywood Week" is that all these people are given an AMAZING opportunity. A trip to L.A. and a week to make their dream come true but a certain percentage just flat out blow it. They party too much. They don't put in the effort. They screw over their friends by not preparing and spend all their time being negative. It blows me away. Every season I see these people handed this opportunity who don't do anything with it.

Everything I have ever done with my screenwriting. From helping people with their scripts, to writing this review, to watching movies is preparing me for the time when Hollywood calls (and they will) so that I will be ready.

This book deals with that being ready. This book deals with that opportunity. This book strips away all the negativity about Hollywood (which includes the Entertainment/Show Business world on a whole) and its way of tearing you down to show you what it really is: A business.

Using meditation, visioning, and other tools Mr. Rydell teaches you how to focus on what it is you want and how to get it. Most importantly he breaks down the 7 myths surrounding the world that is Show Business and explains why they are myths and what the truths REALLY are.

He then asks you to go deeper into your psyche: Why this path? Why this journey? And, then, after helping you answer those questions, he puts you on a path to overcome your fears, to be the person you want to be and follow the vision you have. Creating patterns of success, building relationships and accomplishing not only the goal of YOUR success but, more importantly, adding to the success of the WHOLE world in the process by creating something that can change the world around you.

If I have only one problem with this book, it is a problem I have with a lot of these types of books. And that is a core question: "When do I start writing?" Now, maybe I'm putting the cart before the horse, but so many writers out there are inspired to write and WANT to write and NEED to write and an excellent book like this plops in their lap and it talks of meditations, and has exercises, and goal setting, and vision statements and flow charts and so on and so forth but at what point does the reader put his butt in the chair and actually start to write?

For an industry where it seems like you need to sell your soul to break in, Derek Rydall, in this wonderful book, shows you how to get your soul back. Or, more importantly, keep your soul in the first place.

A spiritual approach to show business life
In his second book, Derek Rydall attempts to provide an antidote for the cynicism, greed and rampant sociopathic tendencies which plague the entertainment industry. To counter these, he exhorts people to become `enlightened entertainers', who see the entertainment industry as a force for Good and who live their lives accordingly. A tall order, perhaps, but in the book he provides all the necessary information in order to set out on this journey of the soul.
Rydall starts off with the basics: identifying what enlightened entertainment is, and why audiences need it. He also provides the basic tools needed for the journey: types of meditation and soul-searching exercises. Next up is the big picture, a look at the realities of show business and the spiritual world, and how these contrast and (possibly) interact. Changing the business is something which can only happen one person at a time, so the rest of the book is devoted to developing the character of the reader. First on the purely personal level, then specifically as an artist, and finally as an entertainment professional. The final section of the book helps the reader create a career plan.
This book is definitely very New Age in style. If you're not into spirituality, the book won't do much for you - although many of the exercises are introspective ways of getting to know yourself better, and these will be beneficial for anyone. If you are spiritually enclined, Rydall's book will undoubtedly be inspirational and provide you with great insights.