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  • The Tropoholic's Guide to Backstory Romance Tropes

    by Cindy Dees ...
    Series Book 3 - The Tropoholic's Guides
    NYT and USAT bestselling author and screenwriter, Cindy Dees, brings her formidable skills as a master storyteller and master writing teacher to this encyclopedic series analyzing the major tropes used in modern commercial fiction. In this volume, Cindy explores 33 iconic backstory romance tropes, the stories made up of the lingering problems, scars, and needs from your hero’s and heroine’s pasts ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Tropoholic's Guide to External Romance Tropes

    by Cindy Dees ...
    Series Book 2 - The Tropoholic's Guides
    NYT and USAT bestselling author and screenwriter, Cindy Dees, brings her formidable skills as a master storyteller and master writing teacher to this encyclopedic series analyzing the major tropes used in modern commercial fiction. In this volume, Cindy explores 35 iconic external romance tropes, the stories of people, situations, and problems around your hero and heroine that pose obstacles to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Writing Compelling Dialogue for Film and TV

    The Art & Craft of Raising Your Voice on Screen

    Writing Compelling Dialogue for Film and TV is a practical guide that provides you, the screenwriter, with a clear set of exercises, tools, and methods to raise your ability to hear and discern conversation at a more complex level, in turn allowing you to create better, more nuanced, complex and compelling dialogue.The process of understanding dialogue writing begins with increasing writers’ ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The New Comedy Writing Step by Step

    Revised and Updated with Words of Instruction, Encouragement, and Inspiration from Legends of the Comedy Profession

    by Gene Perret ...
    Three-time Emmy Award-winner Gene Perret's ""Comedy Writing Step by Step"" has been the manual for humor writers for 25 years. In this new book, his first update, Perret offers readers a treasure trove of guidelines and suggestions covering a broad range of comedy writing situations, along with many all-important insights into the selling of one's work. Perret covers all aspects of comedy writing ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Now Write! Screenwriting

    Screenwriting Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers

    An essential handbook featuring never-before-published writing exercises from the acclaimed screenwriters of Raging Bull, Ali, Terminator 2, Fame, Groundhog Day, Cape Fear, "Lost", "True Blood", "The Shield", and many other hit films and television shows.Now Write! Screenwriting-the latest addition to the Now Write! writing guide series-brings together the acclaimed screenwriters of films like the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Essentials of Screenwriting

    The Art, Craft, and Business of Film and Television Writing

    Hollywood's premier teacher of screenwriting shares the secrets of writing and selling successful screenplays in this perfect gift for aspiring screenwriters.Anyone fortunate enough to win a seat in Professor Richard Walter's legendary class at UCLA film school can be confident their career has just taken a quantum leap forward. His students have written more than ten projects for Steven Spielberg ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Story

    Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

    by Robert McKee ...
    Robert McKee's screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring novices, refining works in progress and putting major screenwriting careers back on track. Quincy Jones, Diane Keaton, Gloria Steinem, Julia Roberts, John Cleese and David Bowie are just a few of his celebrity alumni. Writers, producers, development executives and agents all flock to his lecture series ... Read more

    $25.49 USD

  • H.G. Wells: Masterpieces

    The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Food of the Gods... (Bauer Classics)

    Series Book 42 - The Greatest Collection
    Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called the "father of science fiction".During his own lifetime, however, he was most prominent as a forward-looking, even ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Craft of Character: How to Create Deep and Engaging Characters Your Audience Will Never Forget

    Screenplay and fiction writing books

    by M Boutros ...
    “The most complete and comprehensive guide to character I've ever read." - Adam CroftCharacter is at the heart of every story. We love stories because we fall in love with characters, we want to see what happens to them and we want to see them experience hope and despair. Yet a lot of storytelling books focus on structure and plot, when those things are worthless without a character an audience ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Science of Storytelling

    Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better

    by Will Storr ...
    The compelling, groundbreaking guide to creative writing that reveals how the brain responds to storytellingStories shape who we are. They drive us to act out our dreams and ambitions and mold our beliefs. Storytelling is an essential part of what makes us human. So, how do master storytellers compel us? In The Science of Storytelling, award-winning writer and acclaimed teacher of creative writing ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rapid Story Development #5: The Moral Premise—How to Build a Bulletproof Narrative Engine for Any Story

    Rapid Story Development, #5

    by Jeff Lyons ...
    Series Book 5 - Rapid Story Development
    All the story experts talk about it. Screenwriters, novelists, short story writers—everyone—speaks about the importance of writing stories with a moral core, having characters who are flawed, creating heroes and heroines with relatable human foibles. But few if any of these experts talk about how to pull these things off in practice. The fact is, stories that lack a moral premise deliver flat, one ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Will Not Attend

    Lively Stories of Detachment and Isolation

    by Adam Resnick ...
    “Damn, this book is good.”—**Jon Stewart“A biting, darkly hilarious collection of personal essays that begs to be read aloud.”—Chicago Tribune**Emmy Award–winning writer Adam Resnick began his career at Late Night with David Letterman before honing his chops in movies and cable television, including HBO’s The Larry Sanders Show. While courageously admitting to being “euphorically antisocial,” ... Read more

    $8.99 USD $7.99 USD

  • The TV Writer's Workbook

    A Creative Approach To Television Scripts

    by Ellen Sandler ...
    Why is TV writing different from any other kind of writing? How will writing a spec script open doors? What do I have to do to get a job writing for TV? Writing for television is a business. And, like any business, there are proven strategies for success. In this unique hands-on guide, television writer and producer Ellen Sandler shares the trade secrets she learned while writing for hit shows ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $9.99 USD

  • 10 pasos para escribir un guion para animación

    by Mospcorp ...
    Series Book 1 - Cómo crear animaciones en el mundo libre
    10 pasos para escribir un guion para animación ofrece el conocimiento necesario para ir desde la idea hasta un guion completo, bien escrito y con el formato apropiado. Siguiendo los ejercicios y consejos de este libro se logrará escribir un guion sólido y listo para producir.10 pasos para escribir un guion para animación está dividido en tres partes para familiarizar nuevos escritores con las ... Read more

    $2.92 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How Not To Write Female Characters

    by Lucy V. Hay ...
    Female characters. When fifty per cent of your potential target audience is female, if you're not writing them in your screenplay or novel? You're making a BIG mistake!But how should you approach your female characters? That's the million dollar question … After all, women in real life are complex, varied and flawed. Knowing where to start in creating three dimensional female characters for your ... Read more

    Free

  • Writing Television Sitcoms (revised)

    by Evan S. Smith ...
    This new edition of Writing Television Sitcoms features the essential information every would-be teleplay writer needs to know to break into the business, including: - Updated examples from contemporary shows such as 30 Rock, The Office and South Park - Shifts in how modern stories are structured - How to recognize changes in taste and censorship - The reality of reality television - How the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • How to Write a Movie in 21 Days

    The Inner Movie Method

    by Viki King ...
    In this classic bestselling screenwriting guide—now revised and updated—author and film consultant Viki King helps screenwriters go from blank page to completed manuscript through a series of clever and simple questions, ingenious writing exercises, and easy, effective new skills.Viki King's Inner Movie Method is a specific step-by-step process designed to get the story in your heart onto the page ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Art of Adaptation

    Turning Fact And Fiction Into Film

    by Linda Seger ...
    Adaptations have long been a mainstay of Hollywood and the television networks. Indeed, most Academy Award- and Emmy Award-winning films have been adaptations of novels, plays, or true-life stories. Linda Seger, author of two acclaimed books on scriptwriting, now offers a comprehensive handbook for screenwriters, producers, and directors who want to successfully transform fictional or factual ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Rapid Story Development #6

    Rapid Story Development, #6

    by Jeff Lyons ...
    Series Book 6 - Rapid Story Development
    There are many myths in the world of creative writing, and one of the top three has to be the myth of writer's block. This sixth book in the "Rapid Story Development" e-book series tackles this persistent writing meme and systematically demonstrates not only why the myth is a myth, but how writers can successfully respond to legitimate "blockages" in their writing process when they occur. Writer's ... Read more

    Free

  • Into the Woods

    A Five-Act Journey Into Story

    by John Yorke ...
    An analysis of the fundamental narrative structure, why it works, the meanings of stories, and why we tell them in the first place.The idea of Into the Woods is not to supplant works by Aristotle, Lajos Egri, Robert McKee, David Mamet, or any other writers of guides for screenwriters and playwrights, but to pick up on their cues and take the reader on a historical, philosophical, scientific, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Complete Screenwriting Course

    A complete guide to writing, developing and marketing a script for TV or film

    Designed to take you from the moment you first put your pen to paper to pitching and selling your completed screenplay, this is one of the most inspiring books on screenwriting you'll ever read.Practical exercises will teach you the craft of writing for film and television, both mainstream and independent, the art of building your own plots, characters, dialogue and scenes. It gives you the skills ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Elephant Bucks: An Insider's Guide to Writing for TV Sitcoms

    An Insider's Guide to Writing for TV Sitcoms

    by Sheldon Bull ...
    A comprehensive guide to writing a highly commerical and saleable spec sitcom script and launching your career as a TV sitcom writer. Includes detailed inside information on how to choose the right series to spec, how to pick the right story, and detailed, step by step instruction on how to write the scripts that will get you work. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Cheeky Monkey: Writing Narrative Comedy

    Writing Narrative Comedy

    by Tim Ferguson ...
    From one of Australia's most successful comedians comes The Cheeky Monkey, a practitioner's guide to the art of comedy writing. Both insightful and practical, The Cheeky Monkey explains the principles of sitcom writing and guides the reader in how to apply them. Seeded with exercises to aid the developing comedy writer, this book will help you to: - Write jokes - Create funny stories - Build comic ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Screenwriting is Storytelling

    Creating an A-List Screenplay that Sells!

    by Kate Wright ...
    While most screenwriting books focus on format and structure, Kate Wright explains how to put story at the center of a screenplay. A compelling story, complete with intriguing characters and situations created with these screenwriting tricks of the trade can become a box office blockbuster film.Screenwriters will learn:- Developing themes within the plot- Using structure to define the story- ... Read more

    $4.99 USD