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Books : Reference : Writing : Play & Scriptwriting

• The Crafty Art of Playmaking

  Alan Ayckbourn

  
  From helpful hints on writing to tips on directing (working with actors and technicians, when to listen to the experts, how to cope with rehearsals), this book provides a complete primer to the art of playwriting.
  
   

• Good Scripts, Bad Scripts

  Tom Pope

  
  
   

• Lew Hunter's Screenwriting 434 (Lew Hunter's Screenwriting)

  Len Hunter

  
  
   

• Peter Greenaway - The Belly Of An Architect

  Peter Greenaway

  
  
   

• The Complete Book of Scriptwriting

  J.Michael Straczynski

  
  
   

• Screenwriting Updated: New (and Conventional) Ways of Writing for the Screen

  Linda Aronson

  
  
   

• Complete Book of Scriptwriting

  J. Michael Straczynski

  
  
   

• The Screenwriter's Workbook (A Dell trade paperback)

  Syd Field

  
  
   

• Making a Good Script Great

  Linda Seger

  
  
   

• The Elements of Playwriting (Elements of Series)

  Louis E. Catron

  
  
   

• The Writer's Guide to Writing Your Screenplay: How to Write Great Screenplays for Movies and Television

  Cynthia Whitcomb

  
  
   

• Writing Screenplays That Sell: The Complete Step-by-step Guide for Writing and Selling to the Movies and TV, from Story Concept to Development Deal

  Michael Hauge

  
  
   

• Writing for Radio: How to Write Plays, Features and Short Stories That Get You on Air (Successful writing)

  Shaun MacLoughlin

  
  
   

• The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers

  Christopher Vogler

  
  
   

• Writing Dialogue for Scripts (Books for Writers)

  Rib Davis

  
  
   

• Complete Book of Scriptwriting

  J. Michael Straczynski

  
  
   

• Writers on Comics Scriptwriting

  Mark Salisbury

  
  Bolstered by a stellar line-up of the comics industry 's most feted talents, this set of 14 interviews offers both a candid and entertaining insight into the process and experience of writing a comic book. Interviewer Salisbury has done well to assemble a set of interviewees that represent some of the industry's greatest successes (Frank Miller, Neil Gaiman), convention-challenging leaders (Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis, Warren Ellis) and pioneers of superhero comics (Dan Jurgens, Peter David, Chuck Dixon). Fans will immediately question the absence of the industry's biggest name: Alan Moore. However, Salisbury is quick to note that his absence was down to "sheer volume of work" (Hooray!). Besides, nearly every interviewee cites Moore's gargantuan influence, so he is hardly missing. Gaiman comes across as incredibly well read, while Morrison's approach is either spectacularly ambitious or just plain bonkers. Thanks to Salisbury's probing interview technique, we get an excellent behind the scenes look at the trials and tribulations of a craft that is both challenging and rewarding, in an industry that is not as open to creativity as you might think. As you would expect, there is no clear path to success, beyond the obvious aptitude. However, the most common thread is a rapacious love of the medium and sheer bloody-minded tenacity (often masquerading as bare-faced arrogance in Frank Miller's
  
   

• Dramatic Theory and Criticism: Greeks to Grotowski

  Bernard F. Dukore

  
  
   

• Studying Plays (Studying...Series): 8

  Simon Shepherd, Mick Wallis

  
  
   

• The Crafty Art of Playmaking

  Alan Ayckbourn