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....

Syd Field is revered as the original master of screenplay story structure, and this guide continues to be the industry's gold standard for learning the foundations of screenwriting.

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....

This audiobook follows the wild ride that was Hollywood in the 70s - an unabashed celebration of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll and a climate where innovation reigned supreme....

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

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....

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

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....

There is one sure-fire way of improving your novel fast...You may know the fundamentals of how to write fiction. You may be more than competent in plot, structure and characters. But if your dialogue is dull it will drag the whole story down....

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

Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares his “smart, addictive, hilarious, and insightful” (Breitbart) tales from his four decades in Hollywood where he worked with some of the biggest names in movies.

Jane Austen was born in Steventon, England, in 1775, where she lived for the first 25 years of her life. Pride and Prejudice was published in January 1813, two years after Sense and Sensibility, her first novel....

Based on more than 30 interviews with some of Ephron’s closest friends, family, collaborators, and colleagues, as well as numerous interviews Ephron herself gave, Doidge has written a riveting story of the life of a creative writer who revolutionized journalism, comedy, and film....

Rosenthal and Eckhardt discuss the myriad ways in which technological changes have impacted the creation process of documentary films....

Author Chike Camara has done it again. This book demystifies the process and gives you a breakdown of some of the most common short film types, how their structures work, why their structures work and how to take your own short film idea to the next level....

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.

Want to know how to write a script that people will remember, and can catch the attention of producers and other above-the-line talent?...

Learning how to write a movie script is more than just figuring out the margins and hitting a few plot points along the way. (Sorry, Syd Field.)

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....

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....

The never-before-published edition of Francis Ford Coppola's notes and annotations on The Godfather novel by Mario Puzo reveals the story behind one of the world's most iconic films....

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

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

Writers once dreamed of writing novels: now it's screenplays....