Guiding a great script idea through the screenplay process, this guide instructs how to develop marketable stories, create interesting characters, construct strong script structure and pen-sharp dialogue, weave interesting themes, and write original scenes.

Gardner's Guide to Screenwriting: The Writer's Road Map (Gardner's Guide series)

Webber, Marilyn

Literature & Fiction

Garth Gardner Company

Packed with real examples and exercises, this guide helps would-be scriptwriters navigate their way through the ins and outs of writing Saturday morning cartoons or animated short films. The illustrated text and detailed instructions guide readers through the steps necessary to create a winning script.

Gardner's Guide to Animation Scriptwriting: The Writer's Road Map (Gardner's Guide series)

Gardner's Guide to Feature Animation Writing: The Writer's Road Map teaches how to develop marketable animation stories and scripts. Through a simple analogy, you will come to understand the basics of writing for animated features while discovering the distinctions between animation and live-action scripts and examining feature animation genres. In addition, you will be given the tools to create cohesive plot structures for the animated screenplay, fascinating characters, original scenes, and dynamic dialogue. And if you are a bit intimidated about integrating comedy into your animation screenplay, never fear, for once you've mastered Chapter 14 on comedy cones, your script will have the reader laughing out loud. Includes the "secret" and scene-by-scene specific structure included in Gardner's Guide to Screenwriting, with some minor variations. By applying this structure creatively and effectively, your feature animation script will stand out among the thousands of scripts that circulate around studio lots.

Gardner's Guide to Feature Animation Writing: The Writer's Road Map (Gardner's Guide series)

The writing exercises provided in this guide are designed to get teleplay ideas or episodes for an already existing series down on paper in the television industry format. The "Writer's Road Map" includes information on the different television genres, the basic four act structure, plot gimmicks, character types and motivations, scene construction, dialogue devices, themes, prose, and rewrite lists. Advice is also given on the proper format and how to pitch an idea once it is written.

Gardner's Guide to Television Scriptwriting: The Writer's Road Map (Gardner's Guide series)

Humor & Entertainment

Do people constantly profess you're funny? Do friends and even more importantly, non-friends, laugh hysterically at your jokes? Ever dream of writing your own TV sitcom or working as a writer on a hit sitcom? Yes, you say to all of the above? Well then, this book is for you! 
Whether you're a novice writer or a writer looking for a new medium to stretch your literary muscles, everything you need to know to turn your idea into a saleable TV sitcom pilot or sample spec script for an existing show is right here. Gardner's Guide to TV Sitcom Writing: The Writer's Road Map will guide you through various exercises, helping you turn your story ideas into a sitcom pilot script and/or a spec script for an existing series. This book will guide you in creating two sitcom scripts. Once you've completed two half-hour scripts, this book provides guidance for developing and pitching your TV sitcom pilot and/or existing series episode ideas to executives. 
Regardless of your writing goals, Gardner's Guide to TV Sitcom Writing: The Writer's Road Map, will zoom you onto the road of sitcom writing in an easy manner. So stop wasting your brilliant jokes at the dinner table and start putting them on paper. By the time you finish Chapter One, you'll be on your way to a thrilling and prosperous career!

Gardner's Guide to TV Sitcom Writing (Gardner's Guide series)

Humor