The Screenwriter's Roadmap: 21 Ways to Jumpstart Your Story - Paperback

by Neil Landau (Author)

The potentially long and arduous journey of writing a screenplay was just made easier to navigate with The Screenwriter's Roadmap. This book keeps you on track and helps you to write a finished, professional quality screenplay. Neil Landau provides you with 21 Guideposts that will help you nail down your screenplay's story structure, deepen its character arcs, bolster stakes, heighten suspense and diagnose and repair its potential weaknesses. The Guideposts are augmented by interactive exercises, end of chapter "homework" assignments, examples from the latest blockbusters and over 20 interviews with some of Hollywood's most successful screenwriters and directors.

Author Biography

teaches in the MFA in Screenwriting and Producing Programs at both UCLA School of Film & Television and USC School of Cinematic Arts, and is a faculty advisor in the MFA in Writing Program at Goddard College. He also wrote the cult hit "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead", among many other credits.