Screenwriting Books

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Every issue of scr(i)pt Magazine brings you in-depth interviews with some of today's best screenwriters, along with news, reviews, and columns that focus on the craft and business of writing for film. From concept to sale, scr(i)pt covers the screenwriting industry.

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This Business of Screenwriting:
How To Protect Yourself as a Writer

Ron Suppa's The Business of Screenwriting is intended as a survival guide to help writers through that crucial process when art meets business. Suppa conveys a taste of what the real world of professional screenwriting is like.

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Writing Treatments That Sell: How to Create and Market Your Story Ideas to the Motion Picture and TV Industry, 2nd Ed

In this entertaining guide, writer-producers Ken Atchity and Chi-Li Wong tell readers everything they need to know to create an effective and salable treatment--one that includes such key elements as a compelling conflict, likable characters, plot twists, a climax, and visual drama.

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Hollywood Creative Directory - Producers #51

HCD Producers is the bible of the film and television industry. Thoroughly researched and meticulously compiled, Producers lists up-to-date information on producers, studio and network executives. No one working in Hollywood or trying to break into the film industry should be without this book.

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Dramatic Television Audio Course: John Truby
TV drama has its own requirements. Essentially you are writing a feature film story in 55 pages, and TV drama has a myriad of sub-forms–including personal drama, social drama, crime, fairy tale–that you must know to be successful. This course will give you a blueprint for how to write TV drama scripts that get you work. (more information...)

Advanced Screenwriting Audio Course: John Truby
To be a great writer, you have to take on big themes. You have to create complex characters and track twisted moral arcs. Most of all, you have to be willing to leave the comfortable pre-fab story forms behind and create a story structure that is unique. This will challenge you and will give you the tools you will need. (more information...)

The Hero's 2 Journeys DVD : Michael Hauge & Christopher Vogler
In this special 3-DVD set, designed for storytellers and filmmakers, these two renowned writers and teachers provide their unique insiders' understanding of how story structure, character arc, and theme must combine with myth, archetype, and transformation to touch the widest possible audience. (more information...)

Syd Field's Screenwriting Workshop DVD
Whether you are working on your first screenplay or are a seasoned professional looking for technical help from the master himself, Syd Field's Screenwriting Workshop will be an invaluable writing tool that you will rely upon again and again. (more information...)

Freeing the Writer Within: Natalie Goldberg
The best-selling author of Writing Down the Bones and Wild Mind offers a Zen approach to help the writer in getting down the essentials. Recorded at workshop. (more information...)

How to Write a Movie in 21 Days: Viki King
Even if you don't quite have an idea yet, author Viki King can get your motor running with tips on how to stop getting ready and start writing. This three-tape set ­ "What's the Story," "The Nine Minute Movie" and "Embracing the Impossible Obstacles" -- will also help you finish your script when you think you can't. (more information...)

Making a Good Script Great Audio Cassette Series: Linda Seger
In scriptwriting, it's not just the writing but also the rewriting that counts. Making a Good Script Great focuses on the rewriting process and offers specific methods to help you craft tighter, stronger, and more workable scripts. (more information...)

Making a Good Script Great DVD

Sit-Com Writing Audio Course: John Truby
Don’t underestimate this form. The 22-minute sitcom is exacting. The trick is knowing the structures that produce the laughs, writing comedy from character, playing the ongoing web of oppositions, and much more. This class will tell you everything you need to know to master this tricky but rewarding form. (more information...)

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