The Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script
10 best books like The Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script (David Trottier): Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting, Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need, Adventures in the Screen Trade, The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller, Writing Screenplays That Sell: The Complete, Step-By-Step Guide for Writing and Selling to the Movies and TV, from Story Concept to Development Deal, The Power of Film, How Not to Write a Screenplay: 101 Common Mistakes Most Screenwriters Make, Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach, The 101 Habits Of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insider's Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers, Your Screenplay Sucks!: 100 Ways to Make It Great
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
| Author | Robert McKee |
| ISBN | 0060391685 |
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. Quincy Jones, Diane Keaton, Gloria Steinem, Julia Roberts, John Cleese and David Bowie are just a few of...
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 | William Goldman |
| ISBN | 0446391174 |
No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the bestselling author of Marathon Man, Tinsel, Boys and Girls Together, and other novels, Goldman now takes you into Hollywood's inner sanctums...on and behind the scenes...
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
| Author | John Truby |
| ISBN | 0865479518 |
John Truby is one of the most respected and sought-after story consultants in the film industry, and his students have gone on to pen some of Hollywood's most successful films, including Sleepless in Seattle, Scream, and Shrek. The Anatomy of Story is his long-awaited first book, and it shares all...
| Author | Michael Hauge |
| ISBN | 0062725009 |
I find that when I’m blocked with my writing, reading a how-to book can inspire me. I’m a novelist who only occasionally wonders if I have it in me to turn one of my manuscripts into a teleplay or screenplay. The basics of storytelling, regardless of genre, are the same. Namely, your hero needs a goal,...
| Author | Howard Suber |
| ISBN | 1932907173 |
America's most distinguished film professor provides the definitive A to Z course on the intricacies of film. Each entry in this remarkable book, which represents a lifetime of teaching film, has already inspired and educated several generations of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers and writers....
| Author | Denny Martin Flinn |
| ISBN | 1580650155 |
I looked at over a dozen books giving advice on how to write a screenplay for a feature film before I chose "How Not to Write a Screenplay." The other books were filled with fluffy, meaningless encouragement like "Before you turn in your Oscar-winning script..." My eyes couldn't roll back far enough into...
| Author | Paul Joseph Gulino |
| ISBN | 0826415687 |
The great challenge in writing a feature-length screenplay is sustaining audience involvement from page one through 120. Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach expounds on an often-overlooked tool that can be key in solving this problem. A screenplay can be understood as being built of sequences...
| Author | Karl Iglesias |
| ISBN | 1580625509 |
Insider Secrets from Hollywood’s Top Writers
This book not only shows how to be a screenwriter, but what it's actually like to be one. An inspiration to all would-be screenwriters, this book is about living the screenwriter's life -- the habits, writing environments, creative processes,...
| Author | William M. Akers |
| ISBN | 1932907459 |
Abrasive title, but awesome book. If you're interested in writing or selling a screenplay, this book really is a must have. He tells you how to transform and beat your script into shape as well as letting you in on some of the little trade secrets to help you look like you're not a novice. It's also just a fun...
| Author | David Mamet |
| ISBN | 0140127224 |
According to David Mamet, a film director must, above all things, think visually. Most of this instructive and funny book is written in dialogue form and based on film classes Mamet taught at Columbia University. He encourages his students to tell their stories not with words, but through the juxtaposition...
Among the many "how-to" playwriting books that have appeared over the years, there have been few that attempt to analyze the mysteries of play construction. Lajos Egri's classic, The Art of Dramatic Writing, does just that, with instruction that can be applied equally well to a short story, novel,...
