The Routledge Creative Writing Coursebook Summary

The Routledge Creative Writing Coursebook Summary:

Publisher: Routledge | Number Of Pages: 242 | Publication Date: 2006-02-10 | ISBN-10: 0415317851 | PDF | 1 Mb

This step-by-step, practical guide to the process of creative writing provides readers with a comprehensive course in its art and skill. With genre-based chapters, such as life writing, novels and short stories, poetry, and screenwriting, it is an indispensable guide to writing successfully.
The Routledge Creative Writing Coursebook:

Sue Grafton, "Writing Mysteries"

Sue Grafton, "Writing Mysteries" 

Writers Digest Books | 2002 | ISBN: 1582971021, 1582971455 | 256 pages | PDF | 1,9 MB

Writing mystery fiction can be a special kind of puzzle. In this new, revised edition of the Mystery Writers of America classic, Sue Grafton weaves the experience of today's top mystery authors into a comprehensive mystery writing "how-to." Writers will learn how to piece a perfect mystery together and create realistic stories that are taut, immediate and fraught with tension.

Mark Bowden, Otto Penzler, Thomas H. Cook - The Best American Crime Writing 2006 Summary

Mark Bowden, Otto Penzler, Thomas H. Cook - The Best American Crime Writing 2006 Summary:

Publisher: Harper Perennial | 006-09-01 | ISBN: 0060815523 | PDF | 352 pages | 1.05 MB

A sterling collection of the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, the 2006 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers fascinating vicarious journeys into a world of felons and their felonious acts. This thrilling compendium includes:

Writing Your Screenplay

Writing Your Screenplay

Publisher: Lisa Dethridge (Allen & Unwin) | 2004-04-01ISBN: 1741140838 | PDF | 272 pages | 1.5 MB

This guide to film writing is an ideal introduction to the craft for would-be screen scribes or film buffs who want to learn how it is done. A broad introduction to writing for the screen is provided, along with a structured system for creating strong screenplays, based on the author’s successful online college course. This book goes beyond the typical formulaic approach, offering insights into the classic mythic structures as well as contemporary storytelling techniques that underlie good screenwriting.

The Art of Plotting: Add Emotion, Suspense, and Depth to Your Screenplay

The Art of Plotting: Add Emotion, Suspense, and Depth to Your Screenplay
Publisher: Lone Eagle | ISBN: 1580650708 | edition 2007 | EPUB + MOBI | 2.3 MB

Plot must be as much about the emotions of the characters as it is about the events of the story. That’s the message of The Art of Plotting, which teaches screenwriters how to integrate plot, characterization, and exposition to make stories compelling. Using examples from recent and classic movies, author Linda J. Cowgill demonstrates how the plot springs naturally from the characters—and how that technique makes audiences connect with the story on a more intimate level. Easy exercises reveal common plot problems and help writers overcome them.

Film Directing Fundamentals, See Your Film Before Shooting

Film Directing Fundamentals, See Your Film Before Shooting

Publisher: Focal Press | ISBN: 0240809408 | edition 2008 | PDF | 336 pages | 12,0 mb

Film Directing Fundamentals gives the novice director an organic methodology for realizing on the screen the full dramatic possibility of a screenplay. Unique among directing books, this book provides clear-cut ways to translate a script to the screen. Using the script as a blueprint, the reader is led through specific techniques to analyze and translate its components into a visual story. A sample screenplay is included that explicates the techniques. The book assumes no knowledge and thus introduces basic concepts and terminology.

The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller

The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller 

Publisher: Faber & Faber; 1st edition (October 14, 2008) | Language: English | ISBN-10: 0865479933 | EPUB + MOBI | 464 pages | 3 mb + 3.2 mb

Teacher and screenplay doctor Truby (responsible for popular screenwriting software Blockbuster) brings his complicated but time-tested story development system to print for the first time, a 22-point process that's more thorough-"an extremely precise map of your entire plot" that "shows you the most dramatic way to tell your story"-but also more unwieldy than the traditional "three-act" technique. For example, the first seven steps Truby introduces apply to structure: develop "weakness and need" and "desire" in your hero, give him an "opponent" and a "plan" for overcoming that opponent, then throw in a "battle" that leads to "self-revelation" and, finally, a "new equilibrium."