Screenwriting Techniques

Some of the greatest movies and television series have been written by script partners. Script Partners, Second Edition brings together the experie...

This is a comprehensive guide to writing the first draft of a feature length screenplay. While it focuses on the college semester (16 Weeks), it is...

Perfect for anyone who loves movies — The Official Movie Plot Generator is part humor book, part game, part creative tool. Simply flip the tabs to ...

This second edition of Writing for Animation, Comics, and Games expounds on the previous edition with more information on how to construct narrativ...

Write to Shoot teaches budding screenwriters and screenwriting filmmakers how to write a short script with production in mind. Beker instructs them...

This second edition of Writing for Animation, Comics, and Games expounds on the previous edition with more information on how to construct narrativ...

A sharp, funny book about comedy screenwriting from a successful screenwriter that uses recent – as in this century – movies you've actually seen a...

How to Write a Horror Movie is a close look at an always-popular (but often disrespected) genre. It focuses on the screenplay and acts as a guide t...

How to Write a Horror Movie is a close look at an always-popular (but often disrespected) genre. It focuses on the screenplay and acts as a guide t...

This collection analyzes twenty-first-century American television programs that rely upon temporal and narrative experimentation. These shows play ...

A story is a living thing. And you don't work on a living thing, you work with it. This is the way of the screenwriter, and it is something that wr...

As entertaining as it is enlightening, Creating Dialogue for TV: Screenwriters Talk Television presents interviews with five Hollywood professional...

What are the foundations of scriptwriting? Why do some scripts gain more prestige than others? How do you write a script and get it noticed? Script...

Being There and the Evolution of a Screenplay provides an insightful look at the drafting of one of Hollywood history’s greatest scripts. Being The...

Writing Hollywood highlights the writing process in the production of television drama and comedy series in the U.S. The way writers do their jobs ...

Writing Hollywood highlights the writing process in the production of television drama and comedy series in the U.S. The way writers do their jobs ...

Writing About Screen Media presents strategies for writing about a broad range of media objects – including film, television, social media, adverti...

This volume contains three new screenplays by the writer-director of the prize-winning films Nothing But a Man, The Plot Against Harry, Vengeance i...

An invaluable collection of essays and interviews exploring the business of interactive storytelling, this highly accessible guide offers invaluabl...

An invaluable collection of essays and interviews exploring the business of interactive storytelling, this highly accessible guide offers invaluabl...

Using sources from a wide variety of print and digital media, this book discusses the need for ample and healthy portrayals of disability and neuro...

This book offers a unique perspective on crafting your screenplay from an editor’s point-of-view. Special features include before and after example...

Broadcast Writing (1991) looks at the tools necessary for writers to find and develop stories for radio and television. Through the use of numerous...

Once you understand the basics of screenwriting, ideas for your next screenplay are everywhere. Whether it comes from a favorite children’s book, a...

This book teaches readers how global trends define the marketplace for saleable screenplays in key international territories as well as the domesti...

Writing and Selling Thriller Screenplays has the lowdown on how to get your thriller feature script on to the page, and how to get it in front of p...

Fleabag... The Queen\'s Gambit... Peaky Blinders... Happy Valley... All phenomenally popular shows, whose creators had to work hard to hone their p...

Creativity is becoming increasingly important in an age of advanced audience sophistication. It’s no longer enough to follow standard writing techn...

Perfect for playwrights and screenwriters of all levels of experience, The Writer's Toolkit will equip you with everything required to kickstart yo...