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Screenwriting Books

My top 3 screenwriting books

October 14, 2009

I got this question the other day via Twitter: “What are your 3 top books for screenwriters?”
I’m currently reading Save the Cat by Blake Snyder.  While it’s not in my top three (yet) I highly recommend it.  As someone who sold many spec scripts, Blake Snyder has a great sense of what it takes to [...]

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Lajos Egri’s The Art of Dramatic Writing

August 19, 2009

This book was recommended to me by an actor who I met when I first moved to Los Angeles.  I was standing in line at a bank one day when I struck up a conversation with the guy in front of me.  He was an actor and writer who had been living in Hollywood for [...]

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Syd Field’s Screenplay

March 13, 2009

Nearly 30 years after it was written Syd Field’s Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting; A step-by-step guide from concept to finished script is still considered a must read for all aspiring screenwriters.  It was one of the first books recommended to me by a producer after I sent him a half-baked query letter and it [...]

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