By Helen Jacey
Another excellent resource from MWP, The Woman In The Story, while aimed at screenwriters, will help anyone to write better female characters. But this is not a quick wash and brush-up of the female myth, although those elements are present, rather Jacey explores female characters from several perspectives taking into changes and [...]
The world of screenwriting books is roughly split into two categories. In category one you have the standards, the books from acknowledged gurus like Syd Field and Robert McKee that espouse traditional 3-act structure and the major story elements that go into those three acts, and then there’s category two…basically, all the others. [...]
In the introduction to her excellent book Penny Penniston says…
“Dialogue puts conversation in motion. Great dialogue moves like a great athlete; it is nimble, precise, and powerful. It commands the attention, yet feels effortless in its execution. However, if we want our dialogue to move like an athlete, then we must train like an [...]
Your Screenplay Sucks! is a checklist of 100 of the most common errors that screenwriters - particularly new screenwriters - make, that stop the reader in their tracks and leave the writers opus forever destined to be filed under ‘bin’. Nicely sectioned into three ‘acts’ that cover Storytelling (idea, character, structure, scenes, dialogue), Physical [...]
I’m ready to be corrected here but this is the first book I’ve come across on the subject of horror screenwriting, which is funny given the number of great filmmakers who’ve cut their cinematic teeth within the genre, and now that I’ve read it, quite frankly, it’s going to be a hard act to follow.
The [...]
The thing about screenwriting books is the variety. They range from the overly complex to the deceptively simple, and of course there are the classics, but one thing’s for certain, there’s no ‘one size fits all’ approach. Every screenwriting book I’ve read - and there’s been a few - has something to offer [...]
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