Screenwriting : What's on your bookshelf? by Craig Rosenthal

Craig Rosenthal

What's on your bookshelf?

If you could have just three screenwriting books on your shelf, which would make the cut?

J.Damian Walker

Hero of a 1,000 faces. Poetics of Aristotle. Story (Robert McKee). Pretty much all the 'screenwriting' books are nothing more than infomercial gimics. Everyone's on the Save the Cat kick, but to be honest-- all it teaches is structure.. absolutely nothing about story. Structure cannot provide a compelling story, a compelling story will always provide wonderful structure.

Craig Rosenthal

Thanks JD. I'm going to look for hero of 1000 faces.

J.Damian Walker

Just to add the other 2... Poetics (Aristotle) & Story (McKee)

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