Screenwriting From Iowa

“When I wrote 3:10 to Yuma. I sold the original [short] story for $90, and then got $4,000 for the movie rights.” Elmore Leonard (Leonard did add that “a 5,000 word story was a hundred bucks. And in the early ’50s, that wasn’t bad.) “In 1961, Leonard quit his job at the ad agency to […]

Original Source…