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Screenplay: Writing the Picture
Robin U. Russin and William Missouri Downs, 445 pages, 7x10, index, 1-879505-70-3, $21.95 paper / [can $34.95]

“From nuts and bolts to heart and soul, this book has it all . . . It’s as close to a screenwriting bible as you’re likely to find.”
— Mike Colleary, screenwriter, Face/Off

“ This is the best book on screenwriting today—even better than my own! If there’s one book to buy after Aristotle’s Poetics, it’s Screenplay: Writing the Picture.”
— Lew Hunter, screenwriter, producer, co-chairman of the screenwriting department, UCLA School of Film and Television, and author of Lew Hunter’s Screenwriting 434

“A ‘bible’ for those of all persuasions. Whether you are a rank beginner who needs instruction, or an old pro who needs reminding, you could not do better than David Trottier’s book. A brilliant effort by a first-class, dedicated teacher.”
— William Kelly, Academy Award-winning Writer, Witness

“A lucid and eminently useful atlas of screenwriting technique. All the vague confusing things that teachers and studio executives say about flashback, turning points, and multiple protagonists are whipped into coherent shape here, in a comprehensive, precise, and extremely practical theory...an essential tool in any writer’s kit.”
— Christopher Vogler, author of The Writer’s Journey

“As much a course in creativity as a book on craft, Linda Seger’s Making a Good Writer Great is both nurturing and provocative. Holistic and catalytic, jammed with exercises and thought-provoking queries, it addresses the artist as well as the art. Any writer, but especially screenwriters, will be strengthened by its practical wisdom.”
— Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way

“A feast for the eyes, a feast for the soul. Not for writers alone, but for all people who love creative expression.”
— Richard Walter, author of Screenwriting and The Whole Picture, Chairman of UCLA’s Film and Television Writing Program