Recommended Resources
Books for Screenwriters
- Your Screenplay Sucks!: 100 Ways to Make It Great by William Akers
- The Coffee Break Screenwriter: Writing Your Script Ten Minutes at a Time by Pilar Alessandra
- Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting by Syd Field
- The Screenwriter’s Problem Solver: How to Recognize, Identify, and Define Screenwriting Problems by Syd Field
- Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You Can, Too! by Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant
- Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee
- Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You’ll Ever Need by Blake Snyder
- The Screenwriter’s Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script by David Trottier
Books for all Writers
- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
- Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott