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
10 best books like 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 (Michael Hauge): Poetics, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting, Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need, Techniques of the Selling Writer, Adventures in the Screen Trade, The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller, The Negative Trait Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Flaws, How Not to Write a Screenplay: 101 Common Mistakes Most Screenwriters Make, Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach, The Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script
| Author | Aristotle |
| ISBN | 0140446362 |
‘The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy’
In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy, Aristotle examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine to produce pity and fear in the audience, and asks why we derive pleasure from this apparently...
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 | Dwight V. Swain |
| ISBN | 0806111917 |
Techniques of the Selling Writer provides solid instruction for people who want to write and sell fiction, not just to talk and study about it. It gives the background, insights, and specific procedures needed by all beginning writers. Here one can learn how to group words into copy that moves, movement...
| 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...
The Negative Trait Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Flaws
| Author | Angela Ackerman |
| ISBN | 0989772500 |
Crafting likable, interesting characters is a balancing act, and finding that perfect mix of strengths and weaknesses can be difficult. But the task has become easier thanks to The Negative Trait Thesaurus.
Through its flaw-centric exploration of character arc, motivation, emotional...
| 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 | David Trottier |
| ISBN | 1879505843 |
FOURTH EDITION
This is a fantastic addition to the aspiring (and maybe accomplished) screenwriter.
The book is broken down into sections, which author Trottier states you can read in any order (but suggests you go cover to cover if you can). Mostly I read the book from start to finish,...
| 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...
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel
SAVE THE CAT!® by Blake Snyder is a popular screenwriting book series and storytelling methodology used by screenwriters, directors, and studio execs across Hollywood. Now, for the first time ever, bestselling author and writing teacher, Jessica Brody, takes the beloved Save the Cat! plotting...
