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Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting

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The Playwright's Process: Learning the Craft from Today's Leading Dramatists

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Writer's Guide to Hollywood Producers, Directors, and Screenwriter's Agents, 2002-2003: Who They Are! What They Want! And How to Win Them Over!

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Script Magic : Subconscious Techniques to Conquer Writer's Block

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Playwriting: The Structure of Action (Prentice-Hall Series in Theatre & Drama)

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Playwriting Master Class: The Personality of Process and the Art of Rewriting

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Video Scriptwriting: How to Write for the $4 Billion Commercial Video Market

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How to Write About Theatre

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Writing Great Screenplays F/FI (Writing Great Screenplays for Film and TV)

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The Screenwriter Within: How to Turn the Movie in Your Head into a Salable Screenplay

D.B. Gilles

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The Whole Picture: Strategies for Screenwriting Success in the New Hollywood

Richard Walter

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

Linda Aronson

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Writing Scripts for Television, Radio, and Film

Edgar E. Willis

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Successful Scriptwriting

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How To Write: A Screenplay

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Writing Great Screenplays for Film and TV

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You Can Write a Movie (You Can Write)

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The Screenwriting Life

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Zen and the Art of Screenwriting: Insights and Interviews

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Power Screenwriting: The 12 Stages of Story Development

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Writing for Television

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The TV Scriptwriter's Handbook: Dramatic Writing for Television and Film

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Screenplay: Writing the Picture

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The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insider's Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers

Karl Iglesias

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The Complete Guide to Standard Script Formats: The Screenplay

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The Playwright's Handbook: Revised Edition

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Crafty Screenwriting: Writing Movies That Get Made

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Successful Sitcom Writing: How To Write And Sell For TV's Hottest Format

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Playwrights on Playwriting: The Meaning and Making of Modern Drama from Ibsen to Ionesco

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I Liked It, Didn't Love It: Screenplay Development from the Inside Out

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

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Screenwriting: The Art, Craft, and Business of Film and Television Writing (Plume)

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Stealing Fire from the Gods: The Complete Guide to Story for Writers and Filmmakers (2nd Edition)

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Perfect 10: Writing and Producing the 10-Minute Play

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Screenwriting From the Soul: Letters to an Aspiring Screenwriter

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Good Scripts, Bad Scripts: Learning the Craft of Screenwriting Through 25 of the Best and Worst Films in History

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