best writing book ever ( and like you, Ive read everything)

[nycineaste]

You will pry this book from my cold dead hands.

http://www.amazon.com/Playwriting-Wr...9268012&sr=8-1

[unadog]

Thanks!

I have not read many on screenwriting, etc. at all.

I have read many in a less commercial, more personal vein. This one is great:

http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Down-B...9274749&sr=8-1

Natalie Goldberg, "Writing Down the Bones."

Michael

[David Jimerson]

You will pry this book from my cold dead hands.

http://www.amazon.com/Playwriting-Wr...9268012&sr=8-1

It's a standard for playwriting, and a lot of the same things apply -- but writing for the screen and writing for the stage aren't the same thing.

[nycineaste]

True, but I will also risk sacrilege and state that after a years-long love affair with film theory (Pudovkin, Eisenstein, Kracauer, Bazin, everyone), I've come to the conclusion that the adage that movies are driven by images and not dialog is a bit overstated.

[Egg Born Son]

Cinema is driven by images, movies are driven by commercial interest...

[JoeRawlins]

I'm reading "Four Screenplays" by Syd Field on my Kindle. The world's most renowned expert on screenwriting breaks down the fundamental elements of Thelma and Louise, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Silence of the Lambs and Dances with Wolves.

I'm finding it extremely insightful.

http://www.amazon.com/Four-Screenpla...9626564&sr=8-1