 | How to Write a Selling Screenplay by Christopher Keane
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $6.38 A solid introduction to the structure and format of screenplays. Contains a complete example of a screenplay. It is also inexpensive!
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 | Romancing the A-List: How to Write the Script the Big Stars Want to Make by Christopher Keane
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $8.88 More good advice with good examples.
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 | Hot Property: Screenwriting in the New Hollywood by Christopher Keane
Buy used from: $3.55 Current out of print but used copies are available.
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 | The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Storytellers & Screenwriters by Christopher Vogler
Buy used from: $2.49 Take Aristotles Poetics. Add some depth psychology (soul-study) from Carl Jung. Combine with some mythic theory from Joseph Campbell. Meditate. Creates an insightful method for the analysis of story-myth. Best served hot. Also good chilled. Makes a hearty serving that should please all writers and their muses.
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 | Myth & the Movies: Discovering the Myth Structure of 50 Unforgettable Films by Stuart Voytilla
Buy new: $15.11 / Used from: $6.00 Applies myth analysis theory to good films.
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 | The Art of Adaptation: Turning Fact And Fiction Into Film (Owl Books) by Linda Seger
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $2.93 Since there is more than one path up the mountain of creativity, we can learn what is best for us from reading texts that map out different approaches. With Linda Seger,
we are shown different approaches well by the same author. Hence, I am going to recommend several of her books.
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 | Making a Good Script Great by Linda Seger
Buy used from: $2.91 An excellent text on creating screenplays and script improvement.
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 | Making a Good Writer Great: A Creativity Workbook for Screenwriters by Linda Seger
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.25 Good prompts for invention, arrangement, and revision.
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 | Advanced Screenwriting: Raising Your Script to the Academy Award Level by Linda Seger
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.24 Screenplay structure and variation.
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 | And the Best Screenplay Goes to...Learning from the Winners - Sideways, Shakespeare in Love, Crash by Linda Seger
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $9.48 Specific analysis and examples.
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 | The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller by John Truby
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $8.95 If you are wondering how to put it all together or how to develop your story organically, here is one of the most advanced and sophisticated methods. There is also a hardback and software. I recommend either in paper or hardcover. Please ignore Truby's digs in the Introduction against Aristotle. Truby is, in fact, analytical and Aristotelian, which is one of the reasons he is worth reading.
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 | Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting by Robert Mckee
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $14.58 Like Christopher Keane and Linda Seger, Robert McKee is a fine teacher. His approach synthesizes conflict and mythic theory. Like John Truby's book, this ample textbook is a highly advanced and yet practical how-to-write-a-story analysis.
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