I know scholarly screen writers, and I know others—equally successful—who have never read Word One on the subject. Nevertheless, most writers of my acquaintance show a tendency to learn by reading; and I myself owe a monumental debt of gratitude to the printed word.
Here, then, is a selection of works I’ve found interesting, informative, and in some way useful to me as a scripter. Perhaps you, too, will enjoy thumbing through a few.
Obviously, this is anything but a systematic or definitive bibliography. Nor do all the volumes included deal with scriptwriting as such, for much of what you’ll need to know comes from other fields. Thus, my own Techniques of The Selling Writer is basically an analysis of fiction dynamics. ...
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