The Creative Screenwriter: Exercises to Expand Your Craft
Author(s): Craig Batty; Zara Waldeback; Bloomsbury Publishing Staff
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
General Information
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- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : Bloomsbury Academic
- : 0.185973
- : 01 March 2012
- : 198mm X 129mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 March 2012
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Craig Batty; Zara Waldeback; Bloomsbury Publishing Staff
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 808.23
- : 224
More About The Product
The Creative Screenwriter is a workbook of inspiring writing exercises to sharpen the writer's talents.
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 Hogskolan 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.