Creativity is becoming increasingly important in an age of advanced audience sophistication. It's no longer enough to follow standard writing techniques
- becoming a first-class screenwriter demands not only a command of craft but an understanding of how to unleash & harness creativity. The Creative Screenwriter" offers a wealth of inspiring writing exercises designed to help you produce better more exciting scripts. Each essential area of screenwriting is covered in its own chapter from learning how to build stories & finding good ideas to deepening characters & experimenting with structure to enhancing scene writing & improving pitching. Finally a range of innovative DIY Script Surgeries encourage you to find solutions to common screenwriting problems such as overcoming writer's block managing the rewrite & selling your work. This is a book to return to again & again. It is a guide for aspiring screenwriters who want to develop a powerful writing practice; a manual for teachers & students seeking discussion & reflection; a bible for professionals wanting to hone their craft & solve script struggles. It will rekindle the creative spark; remind you of why you love writing; & help to express the stories you want to tell
- & sell!"