The Creative Screenwriter: Exercises to Expand Your Craft (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781408137192)

The film industry is seeking fresh screenwriting talent and increasingly sophisticated movie goers are demanding unique story concepts and experiences. Today's writers don't just need to be accomplished at their craft - they need to be highly creative. The Creative Screenwriter is a workbook of inspiring writing exercises to sharpen the writer's talents.

Each exercise is designed around a specific theme: Finding Ideas, Developing Stories, Creating Characters, Shaping Relationships, Defining Structure, Exploring Genre, Effective Scene Writing, Visual Storytelling, Improving Dialogue, Managing Re-Writes, Developing a Voice, Perfect Pitching, Outlines and Treatments.The writer can work through sequentially, or navigate alternatively through the workbook using the innovative Work Plans and tailor-made packages written to tackle specific issues such as writer's block, polishing your script and selling stories.

This is a book to return to again and again. It will help rekindle the creative spark, remind you why you enjoy writing, and create new ways to express the stories you want to tell - and sell!

Author: Craig Batty, Zara Waldeback
ISBN-10: 1408137194
ISBN-13: 9781408137192
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 03/15/2012
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.70d

About the Author

Dr Craig Batty is Senior Lecturer in Screenwriting at Bournemouth Media School. He is a screenwriter and script consultant, and has worked on various short film, feature film and television projects. Zara Waldeback is a screenwriting teacher living in Sweden, where she is Head Dramaturg on Writing for Film and Interactive Media at Brobygrafiska Högskolan and specialises in online pedagogy for screenwriting. She freelances as a script consultant, previously worked in development and has worked on many dramas and feature films.