My Story Can Beat Up Your Story: Ten Ways to Toughen Up Your Screenplay from Opening Hook to Knockout Punch
8 best books like My Story Can Beat Up Your Story: Ten Ways to Toughen Up Your Screenplay from Opening Hook to Knockout Punch (Jeffrey Schechter): Imagine: How Creativity Works, Master of the Senate, The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?, Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need, GMC: Goal, Motivation and Conflict: The Building Blocks of Good Fiction, Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World, Into the Woods: A Five Act Journey Into Story, The Hidden Tools of Comedy: The Serious Business of Being Funny
Imagine: How Creativity Works
| Author | Jonah Lehrer |
| ISBN | 0547386079 |
Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetings are a terrible idea? That the color blue can help you double your creative output?
From the New York Times best-selling author of How We Decide comes a sparkling and revelatory look at the...
| Author | Robert A. Caro |
| ISBN | 0394720954 |
The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro’s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. Master of the Senate takes Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 1960, in the United States Senate. Once the most august and revered...
The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
| Author | Seth Godin |
| ISBN | 1591846072 |
In Seth Godin’s most inspiring book yet, he challenges readers to find the courage to treat their work as a form of art. Everyone knows that Icarus’s father made him wings and told him not to fly too close to the sun. But he ignored that warning and plunged to his doom. We’ve retold this myth, and...
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
| Author | Blake Snyder |
| ISBN | 1932907009 |
This book is often hyped as the bible of screenwriting, but I would take it a step further and call it the definitive go-to for all storytelling. Trade secrets are fully revealed and once you read them you can't watch a movie without seeing the formula scroll right in front of your eyes. Exactly--to the...
| Author | Debra Dixon |
| ISBN | 0965437108 |
Goal, motivation, and conflict are the foundation of everything that happens in the story world. Using charts, examples, and movies, the author breaks these key elements down into understandable components and walks the reader through the process of laying this foundation in his or her own work.
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Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World
| Author | Peter H. Diamandis |
| ISBN | 1476709564 |
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From the coauthors of the New York Times bestseller Abundance comes their much anticipated follow-up: Bold—a radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools to create extraordinary...
Into the Woods: A Five Act Journey Into Story
| Author | John Yorke |
| ISBN | 1846146437 |
Into The Woods is a revelation of the fundamental structure and meaning of all stories, from the man responsible for more hours of drama on British television than anyone else, John Yorke.
We all love stories. Many of us love to tell them, and even dream of making a living from it too. But what is a story?...
The Hidden Tools of Comedy: The Serious Business of Being Funny
| Author | Steve Kaplan |
| ISBN | 1615931406 |
While other books give you tips on how to “write funny,” this book offers a paradigm shift in understanding the mechanics and art of comedy, and the proven, practical tools that help writers translate that understanding into successful, commercial scripts. The Hidden Tools of Comedy unlocks...
