Even though he's writing about his experience crafting novels, I found Stephen King's book, "On Writing," to be extremely helpful in my approach to writing screenplays.
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Funny you should mention King's book, I was at a writer's panel in Austin and a gentleman in the crowd suggested it, too. I read a sample of it, but I just haven't sat down and read it, yet.
I can't say enough good things about it. He has a lot of insight about knowing when you should keep your writing to yourself, and when it's time to start showing it to people, and opening yourself up for criticism. He calls it "writing with the door closed" vs "writing with the door open"
the only thing I can remember about this book is when he talks about a large woman who babysat him. She used to sit on his face and fart. really couldn't find any use for this book. There's just so many better books on writing out there. for example: Three Genres by Stephen Minot or The Art of Fiction by John Gardner. Anyway, those are a couple of the books assigned when I studied writing in college and still reference them to this day.
Definitely a great book on how to build a story in an organic way.