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HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

• If you’ve been gazing at the same unfinished script for more than one year, then this book will help you start over without throwing everything away. This is an easy way to get back in the saddle.

• If you’re a film student — DIVE IN. Although this is a distillation of teaching young filmmakers at NYU since 1999, it is a nonacademic and highly practical guide to getting started, staying with it, and finishing your script, regardless of length.

• If you are a first-time screenwriter, this book is a basic guide to the fundamentals of writing a professional screenplay. Read the whole book and combine it with your overall learning experience.

• If you teach screenwriting, this book will be a good text for second-, third-, and fourth-year undergrads or any level MFA fellows. Use chapters 1 through 6 primarily. However, the entire book contains an insightful overview of practical methods of developing a strong screen story.

• If you’ve been a screenwriter for some time, you can use this book to refresh your knowledge of why you started doing it in the first place. Rediscover what it is that makes your work unique. Pay special attention to chapters 2 through 6.

• If you are a script analyst, a reader, or a development professional, the entire book can be useful in revealing ideas about screenwriting and storytelling other than simple salability. Here is a different way of understanding the successful screen or television story beyond commercial viability. Pay special attention to chapters 2 through 6.