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Popular Scriptwriting Books
Popular Scriptwriting Books (showing 1-50 of 74)
Screenwriting Tips, You Hack: 150 Practical Pointers for Becoming a
Better Screenwriter (Paperback)
by Xander Bennett (shelved 2 times as scriptwriting)
avg rating 4.12 61 ratings published 2011
Cinematic Storytelling (Paperback)
by Jennifer Van Sijll (shelved 2 times as scriptwriting)
avg rating 3.90 748 ratings published 2005
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Making Movies (Paperback)
by Sidney Lumet (shelved 2 times as scriptwriting)
avg rating 4.16 3,321 ratings published 1995
Save the Cat!:
The Last Book on
Screenwriting Youll Ever
Need (Paperback)
by Blake Snyder (shelved
2 times as scriptwriting)
avg rating 4.08 5,601 ratings published 2005
Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
(Hardcover)
by Robert McKee (shelved 2 times as scriptwriting)
avg rating 4.18 7,604 ratings published 1997
Screenwriting Behind Enemy Lines:
Lessons from Inside the Studio Gates (Paperback)
by John Schimmel (shelved 1 time as scriptwriting)
avg rating 4.33 11 ratings published 2014
Screenwriters
Compass: Character As
True North (Paperback)
by Guy Gallo (shelved 1
time as scriptwriting)
avg rating 3.25 13
ratings published 2012
Global Scriptwriting (Paperback)
by Ken Dancyger (shelved 1 time as scriptwriting)
avg rating 3.00 13 ratings published 2001
How To Write High Structure, High Concept
Movies (Paperback)
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by
Rob Tobin (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1 time as scriptwriting)
avg rating 2.80 18 ratings published 2000
Television Writing: The Ground Rules Of
Series, Serials And Sitcom
by Linda Aronson (shelved 1 time as scriptwriting)
avg rating 4.50 4 ratings published 2004
Screen Plays:
How 25 Scripts Made It to
a Theater Near You--For
Better or Worse
(Hardcover)
by David S. Cohen
(shelved 1 time as
scriptwriting)
avg rating 3.73 142 ratings published 2008
Screenplay Story Analysis (Paperback)
by Asher Garfinkel (shelved 1 time as scriptwriting)
avg rating 3.56 18 ratings published 2007
Writing Your Screenplay (Paperback)
by Lisa Dethridge (shelved 1 time as scriptwriting)
avg rating 4.00 18 ratings published 2003
Analysing the
Screenplay (Kindle
Edition)
by Jill Nelmes (shelved 1
time as scriptwriting)
avg rating 0.0 6 ratings
published 2010
Movies That Move Us: Screenwriting and the Power of the
Protagonists Journey (Hardcover)
by Craig Batty (shelved 1 time as scriptwriting)
avg rating 3.67 9 ratings published 2011
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The Screenwriters Legal Guide (Paperback)
by Stephen F. Breimer (shelved 1 time as
scriptwriting)
avg rating 3.86 11 ratings published 2004
Screenwriting:
The Sequence Approach
(Paperback)
by Paul Joseph Gulino
(shelved 1 time as
scriptwriting)
avg rating 3.97 144
ratings published 2004
Adventures in the Screen Trade (Paperback)
by William Goldman (shelved 1 time as scriptwriting)
avg rating 4.16 3,753 ratings published 1983
Crafting Short Screenplays That Connect
(Paperback)
by Claudia Hunter Johnson (shelved 1 time as
scriptwriting)
avg rating 3.89 44 ratings published 2005
A Poetics for
Screenwriters (Paperback)
by Lance Lee (shelved 1
time as scriptwriting)
avg rating 3.80 16
ratings published 2001
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Plots and Characters: A Screenwriter on Screenwriting (Hardcover)
by Millard Kaufman (shelved 1 time as scriptwriting)
avg rating 4.20 31 ratings published 1999
Blueprint for Screenwriting: A Complete Writers Guide to Story
Structure and Character Development (Paperback)
by Rachel Ballon (shelved 1 time as scriptwriting)
avg rating 3.40 18 ratings published 2004
The Truth About Writing (Paperback)
by Michael Allen (shelved 1 time as scriptwriting)
avg rating 4.00 19 ratings published 2003
How to Sell Your
Screenplay: The Real
Rules of Film and
Television (Paperback)
by Carl Sautter (shelved 1
time as scriptwriting)
avg rating 2.33 14
ratings published 1988
How to Pitch and Sell Your TV Script (Hardcover)
by David Silver (shelved 1 time as scriptwriting)
avg rating 0.0 2 ratings published 1991
Writing Treatments That Sell: How to Create
and Market Your Story Ideas to the Motion Picture
and TV Industry (Paperback)
by Kenneth Atchity (shelved 1 time as scriptwriting)
avg rating 3.58 99 ratings published 1997
Successful
Scriptwriting (Paperback)
by Jrgen Wolff (shelved
1 time as scriptwriting)
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avg rating 3.23 46 ratings published 1991
Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We
Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You
Can, Too! (Kindle Edition)
by Thomas Lennon (shelved 1 time as scriptwriting)
avg rating 3.94 1,301 ratings published 2011
The Hunger
Games (The Hunger
Games, #1)
by Suzanne Collins
(shelved 1 time as
scriptwriting)
avg rating 4.42
2,952,865 ratings published 2008
Son of a Witch (The Wicked Years, #2)
by Gregory Maguire (shelved 1 time as scriptwriting)
avg rating 3.41 63,230 ratings published 2004
Crafty TV Writing: Thinking Inside the Box
(Paperback)
by Alex Epstein (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1 time
as scriptwriting)
avg rating 4.03 233 ratings published 2006
Invisible Ink: A
Practical Guide to
Building Stories That
Resonate (Paperback)
by Brian McDonald
(Goodreads Author)
(shelved 1 time as
scriptwriting)
avg rating 4.47 372 ratings published 2010
Advanced Screenwriting: Raising Your Script to the Academy Award
Level (Paperback)
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Linda Seger (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1 time as scriptwriting)
avg rating 3.69 96 ratings published 2003
Creating Unforgettable Characters
(Paperback)
by Linda Seger (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1 time
as scriptwriting)
avg rating 3.70 486 ratings published 1990
Making a Good
Script Great (Paperback)
by Linda Seger
(Goodreads Author)
(shelved 1 time as
scriptwriting)
avg rating 3.70 525
ratings published 1987
The Art of Plotting: Add Emotion, Suspense, and Depth to your
Screenplay (Paperback)
by Linda J. Cowgill (shelved 1 time as scriptwriting)
avg rating 3.63 72 ratings published 2007
Buffy: The Script Book. Season 2, Vol. 3
by Joss Whedon (shelved 1 time as scriptwriting)
avg rating 4.33 118 ratings published 2002
Save the Cat!
Goes to the Movies: The
Screenwriters Guide to
Every Story Ever Told
(Paperback)
by Blake Snyder (shelved
1 time as scriptwriting)
avg rating 3.99 855 ratings published 2007
On Air: The Guardian Guide to a Career in TV & Radio (Paperback)
by Chris Alden (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1 time as scriptwriting)
avg rating 0.0 2 ratings published 2004
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Vault Guide to Screenwriting Careers
(Paperback)
by David Kukoff (shelved 1 time as scriptwriting)
avg rating 5.00 4 ratings published 2005
Ultimate
Spider-Man Script Book
(Paperback)
by Brian Michael Bendis
(shelved 1 time as
scriptwriting)
avg rating 4.32 39
ratings published 2004
How to Build a Great Screenplay: A Master Class in Storytelling for
Film (Paperback)
by David Howard (shelved 1 time as scriptwriting)
avg rating 4.28 59 ratings published 2004
Write to TV: Out of Your Head and onto the
Screen (Paperback)
by Martie Cook (shelved 1 time as scriptwriting)
avg rating 3.89 40 ratings published 2006
If Its Purple,
Someones Gonna Die:
The Power of Color in
Visual Storytelling
(Paperback)
by Patti Bellantoni
(shelved 1 time as
scriptwriting)
avg rating 3.68 212 ratings published 2005
Good Scripts, Bad Scripts: Learning the Craft of Screenwriting
Through 25 of the Best and Worst Films in History (Paperback)
by Tom Pope (shelved 1 time as scriptwriting)
avg rating 3.67 98 ratings published 1998
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Writing a Screenplay (Paperback)
by John Costello (shelved 1 time as scriptwriting)
avg rating 3.45 38 ratings published 2001
How to Be a Sitcom Writer: Secrets from the
Inside (ebook)
by Marc Blake (shelved 1 time as scriptwriting)
avg rating 3.44 26 ratings published 2005
Classic American
Films: Conversations with
the Screenwriters
(Hardcover)
by William Baer (shelved
1 time as scriptwriting)
avg rating 4.33 13
ratings published 2007
Screenwriting for Dummies (Paperback)
by John Logan (shelved 1 time as scriptwriting)
avg rating 3.60 277 ratings published 2003
Raindance Writers Lab: Write + Sell the Hot
Screenplay (Paperback)
by Elliot Grove (shelved 1 time as scriptwriting)
avg rating 3.83 28 ratings published 2001
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