Books on Screenwriting
By Gatsby Books
By Gatsby Books
Ever notice how The Great Gatsby and Sunset Boulevard end the same way—with a guy dead in a pool?
Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
Blake Snyder
$22.95 $21.11When they made Breakfast at Tiffany's into a movie, they saved the cat. In the novel the cat was never seen again. There is a lesson here. Disregard it at your own peril.
Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Robert McKee
$42.50 $39.10If you have a story in your head, but you can't put it down on paper, then you don't got a story. This book will either help you or disabuse you of illusion.
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting (Revised)
Syd Field
$17.00 $15.64In order to get this book's references, you'll have to watch movies from the 1970s—that alone is worth the price of this book.
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Joseph Campbell
$23.95 $22.03With his life's work forever connected to the success of Star Wars, it was a tender mercy that Joseph Campell didn't live to see The Phantom Menace.
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel: The Last Book on Novel Writing You'll Ever Need
Jessica Brody
$15.99 $14.71Reverse engineer your unsold screenplay. Turn it into a novel. Sell the novel. Write the adapted screenplay.
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Natalie Goldberg
$14.95 $13.75Because writing should be as natural as breathing.
Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity Third Edition/Expanded (Third Edition, Expanded)
Ray D. Bradbury
$14.95 $13.75That one drop of creativity that justifies all of human experience.
Dialogue: The Art of Verbal Action for Page, Stage, and Screen
Robert McKee
$35.00 $32.20Discover what you're really trying to say—and leave it at that.