About the book

A complete practical course for developing your screenwriting craft and career.

Getting your script right starts with the first spark of an idea and continues all the way through to selling your polished screenplay. This book takes you through the process from beginning to end, then onwards into agents, collaboration and career-building.

The course is practical, honest and flexible. It recognises that writing is not always neat or predictable, and shows different ways screenwriters can work while learning from professional approaches across the film and television industry.

With exercises for plots, characters, dialogue and scenes, it helps writers critique their own work, solve common problems, rewrite with purpose and find a personal way into the craft.