Screenwriting

Here's what started the phenomenon: This book has been a best seller for over 15 years and has been used by screenwriters around the world! Blake Snyder tells all in this fast, funny, and candid look inside the movie business....

Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares scandalous and laugh-out-loud tales from his four decades in Hollywood where he worked with some of the biggest names in movies....

Kill the Dog is the first book on screenwriting written by an actual working professional screenwriter. Award-winning screenwriter Paul Guyot exposes the lies other screenwriting books have told, and presents authentic, essential instruction and motivation....

Robert McKee's screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring novices, refining works in progress, and putting major screenwriting careers back on track....

No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the best-selling author of Marathon Man, Tinsel, Boys and Girls Together, and other novels, Goldman now takes you into Hollywood's inner sanctums....

In Dialogue, Robert McKee offers in-depth analysis for how characters speak on the screen, on the stage, and on the page in believable and engaging ways....

Blake Snyder's Save the Cat!, the world's top-selling story method for filmmakers and novelists, introduces The Last Book on Creating Binge-Worthy Content You'll Ever Need....

Eric Edson has developed a new tool for bringing depth and passion to any screenplay or novel - the 23 Actions All Great Heroes Must Take. It's an easy-to-understand paradigm that provides writers and filmmakers the interconnecting, powerful storytelling elements they need....

Bull Durham, the breakthrough 1988 film about a minor league baseball team, is widely revered as the best sports movie of all time. But back in 1987, Ron Shelton was a first-time director and no one was willing to finance a movie about baseball—especially a story set in the minors....

Veteran script consultant Jill Chamberlain discovered in her work that an astounding 99 percent of first-time screenwriters don't know how to tell a story. What the 99 percent do instead is present a situation....

In the perfect companion piece to his first book, Blake Snyder delivers even more insider information gleaned from a 20-year track record as one of Hollywood's most successful spec screenwriters....

A vibrant portrait of one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters, by an award-winning biographer and essayist....

This is a book that will shock you and make you laugh, anger you and move you to tears....

Blake listened to you and provides new tips, tactics, and techniques to solve your writing problems and create stories that resonate....

Action explores the ways that a modern-day writer can successfully tell an action story that not only stands apart, but wins the war on clichés....

Roberta walks you through the minefield of mistakes that an aspiring filmmaker can make - so that you don't have to make them yourself....

Most screenwriting books tend to focus on story structure, scene writing, navigating the business, and other parts of the craft that come after the initial choice of the central concept for a story....

The secret to writing a dynamite novel is to first write a dynamite scene. Because if you can write one terrific scene, you can write a hundred. And that's a novel....

The emerging discipline of immersive storytelling recognizes the power of creative works that put the viewer at the center of the action. Theme park designer Margaret Kerrison shares tips and tricks for writers on teams tasked with bringing a narrative to life....

Today's world wants to know you and the real story behind why you do what you do....

Super Structure represents over two decades of research on what makes a novel or screenplay entertaining, commercial, original, and irresistible. Contrary to what some may think, structure is not a nasty inhibitor of creativity....

A professional screenwriting instructor shepherds would-be scribes around common hazards of his chosen field in this debut writing guide.

What are the secrets for writing a great ending for your novel? How do you leave readers so satisfied that they'll want another book by you, right now? What tools and techniques can shape your last 50 pages into a powerful, unforgettable experience? Listen to find out more....

In writing a novel or screenplay, does writing Act II scare the heck out of you? Easily outline your novel or screenplay with this concise and insightful book....

Finish The Script! is a screenwriting audiobook for anyone who wants to be a writer....

The only Horror Screenwriter's Handbook written by a successful Hollywood screenwriter. Authored by Hollywood horror screenwriting veteran Thomas Fenton, whose credits include work on the Saw and I Spit On Your Grave horror franchises, The Scream Writer's Handbook offers a 10-step approach to writing a screenplay from idea through completing a first draft. Tom's 10-Step approach in The Scream Writer's Handbook shares a proven process for developing story ideas, characters, dialogue, and scenes that terrify the reader on the page, and on the screen. You'll learn the powerful Rule of Three, ...

Do you love to write, but aren't sure what to do with it? Wondering how to approach the industry, find a market, or get an in with the right folks? Stephan Bugaj (Pixar, Telltale Games) and Justin Sloan (Roku's Cypher, the Reclaiming Honor novels) have come together to share advice on living the writer dream. Let them show you exactly what it takes to make it in the world of creative writing. What follows is a collection of their advice and interviews with the experts. This includes screenwriters, video game writers, and authors of books and comics. In this book you'll read interviews with ...

This practical guide shows exactly how to use The Talking Draft Method for a fast first draft of your script. This book also contains many of Hollywood's most popular outlining structures, plus great revision tricks of the trade to ensure that your next drafts are as great as they can be.

A screenplay about the epic story of titans who shaped the 21st century; Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Mark Twain, J.P. Morgan, Anne Morgan. Tesla's battles with Edison, with Morgan are legendary, his battles with OCD and credit for his inventions are as well. One of the least famous and most important figures in US History, the story has never been told about his accomplishments, and how his inventions have shaped our world, our planet, and our future. Every single day we use one of his patents, from wireless technology to radio waves. How can it be that this man's story has never been told...

A screenplay based on the play "The Merchant of Venice" by William Shakespeare. Some years ago, the late great actor Ron Silver had agreed to play this character; a film producer named Shylock. I pitched the film to Tom Bernard at Sony Classic pictures and pointed out the "No one has made a screen adaptation of Shakespeare's play!" He didn't know that. A few months later, they announced the film adaptation of this play, directed by Michael Radford, starring Al Pacino. So much for inspiring great ideas. I've toyed with the idea of making this Dogme style, and may one day do so - but it's a ...

You know the basics of playwriting or screenwriting, but now you need to move to that next level. One of the best ways to sharpen those writing skills is by listening to what successful playwrights and screenwriters say about their own processes for developing story concepts, characters, and finding the right structure to tell the tale. Topics range across the entire practice of writing for theatre and film, including titles, dialogue, themes, editing and revision, and rules and not following them. The collection offers inspiration, encouragement, cautions, and practical advice from those ...

Gill has taught screenwriting for 20 years at such institutions as Drexel University, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and East Carolina University, and he’s noticed a common pattern among his students. First-time screenwriters are generally excited and full of ideas—until they hit a wall: “It feels good until they get somewhere between pages 20–30,” he notes. “Then, they run out of things to write about. Why is there nowhere else to go? Why is it so short? Where is the rest of the story? What do they do now?”

TV WRITING TOOL KIT 2nd Edition—is an update of my latest story tools, breakdowns, and handouts. The book covers story structure for a TV pilot and spec script, logline formulas for Logline For Your Life and your story, and character. With character, the book goes into the wound and the flaw. I cover everything that I teach in Writers on the Verge at NBC. There are breakdowns for several shows, including—THE GOOD WIFE, MODERN FAMILY, THE NIGHT MANAGER, HOMELAND, FLEABAG, and DEAD TO ME. The book also explores staffing and development.

All you need to know about formatting your screenplay to align with professional standards in a quick-reading and to-the-point page turner. The author Robert L. McCullough has nearly 300 produced script credits and is a founder of The Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards, The Diverse Writers Outreach Awards, The Wiki Screenplay Contest, and The Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards. With an M.A. in Screenwriting, an MFA from The American Film Institute, and a long professional career of promoting aspiring writers into working professionals at every major studio, he now ...

There has never been a better time to be a screenwriter. The recent explosion of cable and streaming services has created a huge demand for movies, limited series, and those long running “bingeable” shows that can hook viewers for years. Before streaming cable networks, the internet, and home entertainment systems radically changed how we consume our entertainment, there was a clear dividing line between writing for feature films and writing for television. That distinction no longer exists. Most major writers, filmmakers and movie stars are now eager to work on projects for the ...