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The Screenwriter s Bible's 7th edition marks the 25th anniversary of one of the most popular, authoritative, and useful books on screenwriting. A standard by which other screenwriting books are measured, it has sold over 340,000 copies in its 25-year life. Always up-to-date and reliable, it contains everything that both…

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As the title suggests, this textbook covers a lot of what it takes to get into the screenwriting game. What I really love about this book, however, is how compartmentalized it is. If you don’t want to know about the business side, skip that section. Don’t care about character? Flip somewhere else. This makes it a valuable resource no matter where a writer is in the process. I’ll be honest: I’ve been writing scripts long enough that my favorite section of the book is the Formatting Guide.

There are so many nuances in how various scenes should be formatted that…

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