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© , Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates Book I - How to Write a Screenplay, A PrimerHow stories work -- Situation, conflict, and resolution -- The flow of the story -- The low down on high concept -- Story layering, plot, and genre -- Ten keys to creating captivating characters -- Dialogue, subtext, and exposition -- How to make a scene -- Suspense and comedy - TelevisionBook II - 7 Steps to a Stunning Script, A WorkbookStep 1, Summon your Muse -- Step 2, Dream up your movie idea -- Step 3, Develop your core story -- Step 4, Create your movie people -- Step 5, Step out your story -- Step 6, Write your first draft -- Step 7, Make the necessary revisions -- The CharacterAction GridBook III - Correct Format for Screenplays & TV Scripts, A Style GuideHow to use this guide and its unique cross-referencing tools -- Sample scenes -- The cover, title page, first page, and last page -- Headings (slug lines) -- Description -- Dialogue -- How to format TV scripts -- Glossary -- Complete formatting indexBook IV - Writing Your Breakthrough Spec Script, A Script Consultants ViewThe spec script, your key to breaking in -- Exercises in revising scenes -- The first ten pages (a sample plus an analysis)Book V - How to Sell Your Script, A Marketing PlanHow to protect your work -- What you must do before entering the market -- Your strategic marketing plan (with worksheets) -- How to find an agent -- The query letter (with sample letters) -- How to pitch without striking out -- How to sell your script without an agent -- Television -- Hollywoods back door -- How to break into Hollywood when you live in Peoria -- A personal challengeBook VI - Resources and IndexIndustry organizations and guilds -- Script consultants, seminars, and schools -- Internet sites -- Directories, periodicals, and writers organizations -- Bookstores -- Software -- Books for screenwriters and TV writers -- Contests -- General index This Bible is very informative, detailed, well-organized and accessible; more comprehensive and with a wider range of examples than Syd Fields classic, Screenplay. On the other hand, its nearly 500 pages of 8.5 x 11 text, so its formidable. Despite that, it wears its organization on its sleeve and is easy to navigate. Five sections describe and discuss aspects of writing and selling your script. The first three cover basic principles of storytelling, how to write a script (or any compelli This Bible is very informative, detailed, well-organized and accessible; more comprehensive and with a wider range of examples than Syd Fields classic, Screenplay. On the other hand, its nearly 500 pages of 8.5 x 11 text, so its formidable. Despite that, it wears its organization on its sleeve and is easy to navigate. Five sections describe and discuss aspects of writing and selling your script. The first three cover basic principles of storytelling, how to write a script (or any compelling story), and a style guide for scriptwriting – mainly for movies, but also television. A fine section in the middle gives many good and bad script examples with a scriptwriting consultants commentary. Youd pay thousands to glean this information from an actual consultant, or even to attend a conference with this kind of detail. The last section is on how to sell your script, I believe a far more difficult process than writing it in the first place. I enjoyed the first two sections most, the principles and methods for telling a good story. Trottiers approach adheres closely to Aristotles Poetics, probably still the best how-to-write guide ever written. Trottier is especially strong in simplifying character motivation, and offers some useful worksheets. The Style Guide de-mystifies the arcane rules of formatting a screenplay, and emphasizes simplicity in a spec script, as opposed to a production script. The final section on marketing (sales are presupposed), is daunting indeed. Having marketed several novels I can say that his advice is one-hundred-percent solid. That doesnt make it any less of a mountain to climb. Despite its overall strong organization, the book is a compendium and often reads like a list of lists, without much connecting tissue. Sometimes topics seem out of order (like introducing the characteraction grid after discussion of the draft revision), and sometimes stuff is just inserted at random (like a brief description of a heros mythical journey). In the center of the chapter on how to write your script, helpful preparatory outlining procedures are described then theres this: Step 6 – Write your first draft. Thats it! Thats like the famous recipe for rabbit stew: First, catch the rabbit. Actually, all the detailed information you need to execute Step 6 has been previously discussed, though this is a glaring example of lack of connecting tissue. This Bible is more of a reference guide than a step-by-step how-to, but the attentive reader can put it all together and maybe thats better than trying to follow a recipe. ...more

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