The Writing/Publi****ng Shelf
Save The Cat! Goes to The Movies
Blake Snyder
Michael Wiese Productions
3940 Laurel Canyon Blvd. #1111, Studio City, CA 91604
9781932907353, $24.95, www (dot) mwp (dot) com
Everything there is to be done has been done before in some way. "Save
The Cat! Goes to the Movies: The Screenwriter's Guide to Every Story
Ever Told" is a guide to this strange claim to cover ten genre that
the populace can't seem to get enough of, a through look at fifty of
the biggest movies of the past three decades to cover everything about
the modern movie script =96 and why originality isn't really dead when
it seems to be =96 but it's really just taking on a new costume and
appearance. Written by a Hollywood veteran with thirteen successful
screenplay sales, "Save The Cat! Goes to the Movies: The
Screenwriter's Guide to Every Story Ever Told" is highly recommended
to anyone who's trying to break into Hollywood and for community
library collections on the subject of film.
How to Write a Screenplay in 10 Weeks
Marilyn Horowitz
Atlas Books
30 Amberwood Parkway, Ashland, OH 44805
9780979908910, $49.95, www (dot) atlasbooks (dot) com
Speed is a rare quality in artists of any sort, especially writers -
"How to Write a Screenplay in 10 Weeks: A Fast & Easy Toolbox for All
Writers" is a guide to improving one's writing =96 and being much faster
as they do it. A through and complete guide to writing a first draft
in less than three months, complete with a formatting manual and a
writing log, "How to Write a Screenplay in 10 Weeks: A Fast & Easy
Toolbox for All Writers" is a must for any writer who really wants to
kick it into high gear in getting their ideas down onto paper, and
highly recommended to community library writing and publi****ng
collections.
The Best of Write Now
Danny Fing*****h
Twomorrows Publi****ng
10407 Bedfordtown Dr., Raleign, NC 27614
9781893905924, $19.95, www (dot) twomorrows (dot) com
Every comic book reader wanted to draw their own comics at some point
as a child =96 but what do you do when that urge doesn't go away as an
adult? "The Best of Write Now!: How To Interviews & Art From the
Premier Publication About Comics Writing" is a compilation of, as the
title says, the very best of a publication dedicated to the writers
and artists of comic books and graphic novels with advice from big
names such as Stan Lee, J.M. Straczynski, Neil Gaiman, and many more.
If one is an aspiring artist or writer of comic books, the advice
found in "The Best of Write Now!: How to Interviews & Art from the
Premier Publication About Comics Writing" is essential and a great
place to start, making it highly recommended for community library
comics and graphic novels shelves.
The Curious Case of the Misplaced Modifier
Bonnie Trenga
Writer's Digest Books
c/o F&W Publications
4700 East Galbraith Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45236
9781582975610, $9.99, www (dot) writersdigest (dot) com
One can have the best grammar in the world, but if the writing is
still horrible, it's going to be very technically sound horrible
writing. "The Curious Case of the Misplaced Modifier: How to Solve the
Mysteries of Weak Writing" looks at all the causes of bad writing and
how to repair them and revise them. Touching on passive voice, abuse
of the suffix -ing, run on sentences, and many other common accidents
of writers, "The Curious Case of the Misplaced Modifier: How to Solve
the Mysteries of Weak Writing" is an essential guide for novice
writers with its unique and entertaining approach to improve
themselves.
Webster's Contem****ary School & Office Thesaurus
Editors of Merriam-Webster
Federal Street Press
25-13 Old Kings Highway North, #277, Darien, CT 06820
978159695048, $7.98 www (dot) federalstreetpress (dot) com
1-877-886-2830
The latest trade paperback edition of Webster's Contem****ary School &
Office Thesaurus combines effectiveness with affordability. Featuring
150,000 synonyms and antonyms, and a brief definition (with usage in a
sentence) for each entry along with a list of its synonyms and
antonyms, all organized alphabetically, Webster's Contem****ary School
& Office Thesaurus is as easy and convenient to use as ever. A "must-
have" for writer's and student's desks everywhere, particularly those
who have to create compositions without immediate access to the
internet.
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