Advanced Screenwriting, written by one of today’s most active and respected screenwriting gurus, is a collection of meditations on fine-tuning the script.
Among the many subjects it discusses:
- working with non-traditional forms
- maintaining a consistent and ongoing storyline
- developing a personal cinematic style
- finding a script’s audience
- keeping an audience’s attention
- developing subtexts utilizing psychology and philosophy
- transforming characters
- reflecting real-life patterns
- creating realism through accurate detail
- polishing scenes
- creating memorable dialogue
. . . and much more
