The author of the screenplay for Lore demystifies the screenwriter's art, providing informed advice in a working handbook for writers with stories to tellAddressing the key issues of creativity and craft, this guide aims to connect with our natural understanding of story and to enable fresh, original, and authentic writing. Working on the central premise that drama reflects nature, and screenplays simply echo life as we know it, the areas discussed...

A manual for screenwriters and filmmakers, in the form of notes, on how to take your career from amateur writer to proRocliffe Notes is a compendium for screenwriters and filmmakers which brings together tips and opinions from more than 140 film and TV industry professionals, and provides a step-by-step, common-sense guide on how writers and writer-directors can best present themselves to the industry. Including insider insights from award-winning...

Dorothea Brande's Becoming a Writer remains evergreen decades after it was first, written. Brande believed passionately that although people have varying amounts of talent, anyone can write. She also insists that writing can be both, taught and learned. This is Dorothea Brande's legacy to all those who have ever wanted to express their ideas in written form. A sound, practical, inspirational and charming approach to writing, it fulfills on finding...

What if you could choose what happens to you after you die? Heaven, right? The consensus pick for all of mankind. But what about atheists? The choices become murkier. The author mulls over the relative merits, and drawbacks, of both reincarnation and the much bleaker prospect of death being simply, the end.--Provided by publisher.

The title is self-explanatory....but it is interesting to note I wrote this on Thursday, November 12, 2015; one day before the latest attacks in Paris, France.--Provided by publisher.

"Freeman, an original screenplay, is a western about a former slave living out West with his wife and child, building a new life. Accused of stealing, he is forced to become a fugitive. To evade the posse on his trail, he finds himself using the same tricks he used as a runaway slave. Problem is, Freeman's also being hunted by an expert tracker by the name of Cage - whose former profession? Slave-catcher. And he knows all the tricks. This taut page-turner...

What makes YOU happy? The author insists that in spite of bad news everywhere, there is plenty to celebrate every single day of your life.--Provided by publisher.

The author contemplates his navel, faces some serious self-critiquing, and assesses where he has been, his current position, and where he needs to go. Islands of serenity dot all of our personal seas, but how long do they stay above water?.--Provided by publisher.

Volume 12 of A Cafe in Space features excerpts from Anais Nin's unpublished diary revealing the truth about the famous "come as your madness" party in 1953, at which Nin's daring costume caused a sensation and where Kenneth Anger got inspiration for his underground classic film "Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome." Previously unpublished photos accompany Nin's commentary. In her article, "Political Nin," Kim Krizan unearths previously unknown letters...

Most of what you think you know about writing is useless. It's the harmful debris of your education-a mixture of half-truths, myths, and false assumptions that prevents you from writing well. Drawing on years of experience as a writer and teacher of writing, Verlyn Klinkenborg offers an approach to writing that will change the way you work and think. There is no gospel, no orthodoxy, no dogma in this book. What you'll find here isn't the way to write....