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I can hear you saying ,"Hey! There's more than ten books on this guy's so-called Top Ten list." And you'd be right.
I plead guilty to having lied about that (a useful quality for a writer, by the way). The reason I did (uh oh, here comes
the big rationale) is that there are a lot more than ten excellent (or at least pretty damn good) books out there about screenwriting.
These "Ten" (I know, I know, you counted 15, so sue me) simply happen to be ones that I think are both useful and
interesting reading. You have to choose for yourself, and you should choose a bunch. Read as many of them as you can; it's
impossible to know too much about this business. None of these fine books really have all the answers (if there even is such
a thing as all the answers), but they each do have some good ideas that can help you in your own work. And that's what counts.
Art Of Dramatic Writing
by Lajos Egri
Adventures in the Screen Trade
by William Goldman
The Writers Journey
by Christopher Vogler
How to Write a Movie in 21 Days
by Viki King
Aristotle's Poetics for Screenwriters
by Michael Tierno
I'd Hate Myself in the Morning
by Ring Lardner Jr., etc.
Alone in a Room
by John Scott Lewinsky
How Not to Write a Screenplay
by Denny Martin Flinn
Writing for Emotional Impact
by Karl Iglesias
Story
by Robert McKee
I Could've Written a Better Movie Th...
by Derek Rydall
Zen and the Art of Screenwriting
by William Froug
The Secrets Of Action Screenwriting
by William C. Martell
The Screenwriter Within
by D.B. Gilles
The Writer Got Screwed (But Didn't Have To)
by Brooke A. Wharton
There's a more extensive list somewhere on this website, or there should be.
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