What is your favorite book about screenwriting?
Read a good book about your craft? Or just a good book in general? Share it here.
What is your favorite book about screenwriting?
I’m a huge Beatles fan and among the many many books about their life & legacy, I picked up “A Hard Day’s Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Song” to read while traveling. It focuses keenly on the writing process, not creative interpretations of their songs, which makes it a fascinating read an...
Expand postOoooo, learning about the writing process from The Beatles?! HOW COOL! Actually, would you be willing to post about this in the Composing Lounge as well? Songwriting is definitely a nuanced aspect of...
Expand commentBy Matt Haig. It's about a young woman who dies and finds herself in a massive library where each book is a regret that she can travel back in time and discovers/sees those regrets from a different perspective.
Hi, could you suggest a good book? - PH
Question… what book past or present that’s never been made into a movie deserves to be produced in your opinion?
The Rabbit Factory, by Larry Brown. Set in Memphis, teeming with pitch-perfect creations that include quirky gangsters, colorful locals, seemingly straitlaced professors, and fast-and-loose police off...
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I snagged this fantastic E-book a while back, "Writers Workshop of Science Fiction & Fantasy" by Michael Knost - every chapter has an interview with a different SciFi/Fantasy author, and it's been truly eye-opening about how we approach the genre. Worth a read!
This came up because we were having a g...
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I have just finished Kafka on the Shore. I don't know if like it or not. I like it because the storytelling was easy to understand. The plot is "Gaiman-ish", so to speak but there were many things that were not made clear like, why did Kafka pass out and had blood on his chest, Nakata's history was...
Expand postI highly recommend that book, it's written for me, I'm still in the process of getting a literary agent but you can find the book on amazon kindle, your support is much appreciated!
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I've just finished reading a book about hate groups in America. I reposted part of this before I learned about this lounge, so I'm reposting it here. But I believe this is an issue we, as creatives, need to explore. The subject is very timely and we need to understand the ins and outs, the psycholog...
Expand postIt's a rare book that can keep me guessing, keep me turning the pages, and not wanting to peek at the end. Pretty Little Wife was just that book. I'm such a jaded reader knowing how stories are constructed and this book had me guessing all the way. Loved it. Read it in almost one sitting. It doesn't get much better than that!
Last night I finished A Thousand Steps by T. Jefferson Parker. It's a great portrait of Laguna Beach, CA in 1968 (and by extension, forces that were at work across the nation then): the hippie movement, growing drug use and the backlash by some, sexual permissiveness, the Vietnam War and protests ag...
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The Writer's Journey by Christopher Vogler
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On Writing by Stephen King was my favorite out of twenty-five books I read in 2021.
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Save the Cat by Blake Snyder
"The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell.
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Wonderworks by Angus Fletcher. Not specifically about screenwriting.