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Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting

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The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers

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Three Genres: The Writing of Poetry, Fiction, and Drama

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Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers

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Bedford Introduction to Drama 5e

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Writing the Character-Centered Screenplay, Updated and Expanded edition

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Writing for Emotional Impact

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The Playwright's Process: Learning the Craft from Today's Leading Dramatists

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Teach Yourself Screenwriting

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Screenwriters on Screenwriting

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The Savvy Screenwriter: How to Sell Your Screenplay (and Yourself) Without Selling Out!

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Creating Your Own Monologue

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Playwriting: The First Workshop

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Writer's Guide to Hollywood Producers, Directors, and Screenwriter's Agents, 2002-2003: Who They Are! What They Want! And How to Win Them Over!

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Writing for Television: How to Write and Sell Successful TV Scripts

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The Elements of Playwriting

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Writing Your First Play

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How to Read and Write About Drama

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Screenwriting

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The Crafty Art of Playmaking

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How to Write for Animation

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Alternative Scriptwriting, Fourth Edition: Successfully Breaking the Rules

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Television and Screen Writing: From Concept to Contract, Fourth Edition

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Gardner's Guide to Television Scriptwriting: The Writer's Road Map (Gardner's Guides)

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Playwriting for Theater, Film, and Television

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Script Magic : Subconscious Techniques to Conquer Writer's Block

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Top Secrets: Screenwriting

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The Art of Screenwriting: Story Script Markets

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Gardner's Guide to Screenwriting: The Writer's Road Map (Gardner's Guide Series) (Gardner's Guide series)

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A Friend in the Business: Honest Advice for Anyone Trying to Break into Television Writing

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Getting Your Script Through the Hollywood Maze: An Insider's Guide

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Screenwriting: A Manual

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Freelance Writing for Hollywood: How to Pitch, Write and Sell Your Work

Scott Essman

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Screen-Writer's Handbook

Constance Nash

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Playwriting: The Structure of Action (Prentice-Hall Series in Theatre & Drama)

Sam Smiley

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Dramatic Technique

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Playwriting Master Class: The Personality of Process and the Art of Rewriting

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Teach Yourself Writing a Play (Teach Yourself)

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Video Scriptwriting: How to Write for the $4 Billion Commercial Video Market

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How to Write About Theatre

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Composing Drama for Stage and Screen

Stanley Vincent Longman

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Scriptwriting for High Impact Videos: Imaginative Approaches to Delivering Factual Information

John Morley

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Practical Playwriting: A Guide to Writing for the Stage

Leroy Clark

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The Insider's Guide to Writing for Screen and Television

Ronald B. Tobias

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Writing Great Screenplays F/FI (Writing Great Screenplays for Film and TV)

Dona Cooper

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The Screenwriter Within: How to Turn the Movie in Your Head into a Salable Screenplay

D.B. Gilles

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The Whole Picture: Strategies for Screenwriting Success in the New Hollywood

Richard Walter

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Screenwriting Updated: New (and Conventional) Ways of Writing for the Screen

Linda Aronson

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Writing Scripts for Television, Radio, and Film

Edgar E. Willis

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Successful Scriptwriting

Jürgen Wolff

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How To Write: A Screenplay

Mark Evan Schwartz

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Writing Great Screenplays for Film and TV

Dona Cooper

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You Can Write a Movie (You Can Write)

Pamela Wallace

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The Screenwriting Life

Rich Whiteside

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Zen and the Art of Screenwriting: Insights and Interviews

William Froug

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Writing Scripts Hollywood Will Love

Katherine Atwell Herbert

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Power Screenwriting: The 12 Stages of Story Development

Michael Chase Walker

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Fade In: The Screenwriting Process

Robert A. Berman

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Writing for Television

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Writing Docudrama: Dramatizing Reality for Film and TV

Alan Rosenthal

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The TV Scriptwriter's Handbook: Dramatic Writing for Television and Film

Alfred Brenner

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Writer's Guide to Selling Your Screenplay

Cynthia Whitcomb

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Gardner's Guide to Feature Animation Writing: The Writer's Road Map (Gardner's Guide series)

Marilyn Webber

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Lew Hunter's Screenwriting 434

Lew Hunter

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Screenplay: Writing the Picture

William Missouri Downs

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The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insider's Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers

Karl Iglesias

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The Complete Guide to Standard Script Formats: The Screenplay

Hillis R. Cole

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The Playwright's Handbook: Revised Edition

Frank Pike

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Crafty Screenwriting: Writing Movies That Get Made

Alex Epstein

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Writing the Script

Wells Root

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Successful Sitcom Writing: How To Write And Sell For TV's Hottest Format

Jürgen Wolff

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Playwrights on Playwriting: The Meaning and Making of Modern Drama from Ibsen to Ionesco

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I Liked It, Didn't Love It: Screenplay Development from the Inside Out

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The Writer's Guide to Writing Your Screenplay: How to Write Great Screenplays for Movies and Television

Cynthia Whitcomb

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Screenwriting: The Art, Craft, and Business of Film and Television Writing (Plume)

Richard Walter

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Stealing Fire from the Gods: The Complete Guide to Story for Writers and Filmmakers (2nd Edition)

James Bonnet

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Perfect 10: Writing and Producing the 10-Minute Play

Gary Garrison

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Screenwriting From the Soul: Letters to an Aspiring Screenwriter

Richard W. Krevolin

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A Story Is a Promise: Good Things to Know Before You Write That Screenplay, Novel, or Play

Bill Johnson

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Good Scripts, Bad Scripts: Learning the Craft of Screenwriting Through 25 of the Best and Worst Films in History

Tom Pope

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Playwriting: Writing Producing and Selling Your Play

Louis E. Catron

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Understanding Plays (2nd Edition)

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An Introduction to Modern One Act Plays

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