Screenwriter's Bible : A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting and Selling Your Script; Revised Edition

Thank you for this book. Your encouragement is felt on every page. Far beyond the basic how-to's, this book is a must-have for anyone who has a screenplay idea come wandering into their mind.

Do this but don't do that. What a lot of nonsense.
It would be more beneficial to read Aristotle's Poetics and to focus on
writing an excellent story, than to become narrow minded and learn how to
space your lines, format the pages and adhere to the cliché `more is less,'

which tells you, that oxymoron's or contradictions are acceptable. In other
words, this book is full of rules for the sake of rules. Precisely what a creative
mind should avoid.

This book reminds me of the rules formed by the conventions of Europe
to preserve certain standards during the classicism period. For example,
no handkerchiefs were permitted on stage, or a woman of nobility was not to
allow a defamed man into her room. The rules were arbitrary and they were
loosely based on Aristotle's Poetics. Corneille had rejected the rules to produce
one of the greatest plays. The play is El Cid.

The Screenwriter's bible is pedantic. Avoid it at all costs. If you want to create great stories,
read the great playwrights, Schiller, Corneille, Sophocles, study literature. Garbage
presented in a professional manner is still garbage. Learn how to write a great story
and the story shall sell itself.

I got the book a few weeks late, and I could not find any record on Amazon about my purchase. But, the book arrived well packaged and in very good shape. And it was a decent price.

This book covers everything you want to know about screenwriting. It is written in simple language and if you follow the steps and checkpoints carefully, you will end up with a well written script. Read this book first!

Excellent book about screenwriting- everything was covered in detail; the organization of the book made it easy to read