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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
CHOOSING YOUR STORY
Start with a Conflict
The Cringe Exercise
Trusting Yourself
Note Card R&D
Concept Is King
When Sally Met Harry
The Comfort Zone
Finding Your Story
GET WRITING
Binding and Gagging the Internal Critic
The Talking Cure
The Almighty Verb
Throw the Book Away
Feeling the Music
It’s the Read—Writing Great Film Narrative
Dream On
Random Thoughts
Analyzing Your Characters
The Power of Negative Thinking
When Great Writing Meets a Great Actor: Writing for a Star
Police Investigation
Write Truthfully in Imaginary Circumstances: The Mythology Inside You
Postcards from the Edge of Creativity
Found in Translation
STRUCTURE
The Most Important Thing I Know and Teach
The Character/Action Grid
Writing in the Dark
The Newspaper Exercise
21 Questions to Keep You on Track
Key Things to Know About Your Script Before You Write
Four Magic Questions of Screenwriting
Creating Unpredictability Using Subgoals and Plot Twists
Your Outline Is Your Lifeline
The Tool Kit—Resuscitative Remedy for Writer’s Block and Blank-Page Elimination
The Genre Game
THEME
How to Move a Pile of Dirt
The Emotionally Charged Icon
True Love
Finding Universal Themes
Refining the Idea
The Thematic Line of Dialogue
The Emotional Outline
Writing from Experience, or Grandma’s Teeth Fell into the Soup Again
Change Your Perspective
The Union of Opposites
From End to End: The Creative Compass
CRAFTING SCENES
Rhythms, Levels and the Proper Respect
Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid
Self-Knowledge Availed Us Plenty
What Happens Next?
Scenes as Concepts
Crafting the Kick-Ass Scene
Visual Storytelling
What Lies Beneath
Write Cinematic Scenes
I Know What You’re Thinking: Dialogue, Context, Subtext
One-Page Character Introduction
Better Than Irony
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
On Creating Character
Give Me a Dramatic Truth or Give Me Death!
Creating Characters Who Work for You, Not Against You
Approach Character Like an Actor . . . from the Inside Out!
The Character’s Trailer Shot
The Scene That Doesn’t Exist
The Key to Charismatic Characters
Go Ask Rosenkrantz
Character Bones
The Riddle of the Sphinx
The Character Diary
Getting Inside Your Character’s Head by Becoming Her Pen
Life before FADE IN:
Loving and Loathing—How to Get into Your Characters
Getting to Know Your Character
VERBAL AND NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION
Find Your Inner Actor
On Dialoguing, the Screenwriting Anarchist’s Way
Nonverbal Communication
The Big Eavesdrop
The Twitch: Objects as Emotions
Funny Faces: Tips on Writing Animation
False Emotion
Building Between the Lines
Using Metaphors in Comedy
Pick Up a Party Line
REVISION
Backward Brainstorming
Hurt Me, Hurt Me! (Oh, and Help Me Make My Script Better)
The Jewel Case Outline
“ ‘Aloud,’ He Cried!”
Screenwriters: Stop Shooting Yourself in the Foot!
The First Ten Pages
Prose (and Cons)
What to Do When You’re Stuck on a Creative Problem
Button It—The Cure for Overwriting
Finishing a Script—The Actor Pass
NOW WHAT?
Creating the Killer Log Line
What If It Were Your Money?
How to Find and Get an Agent
AUTHOR WEBSITES
Acknowledgements
CREDITS
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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