Reddit reviews The Art Of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives

I will always recommend The Art of Dramatic Writing.

Learn to invent an interesting character that wants something and you'll have so many ideas that you're excited about that the problem will be choosing one. Think of an interesting character....then add WANTS TO and get busy.

Lets play a game:

Guess the movies:

• A ninja detective who dresses as a bat WANTS TO stop a madman who wants to destroy his city
  
  
• A lonely socially challenged Vietnam vet WANTS TO
  save a young prostitute from her pimp
  
  
• A family man and sheriff in a coastal town who is afraid of water WANTS TO stop a shark whose feeding on tourists.
  
  
• A boxer WANTS to retrieve his dads gold watch while a gangster boss puts a hit out on him, meanwhile gangsters who talk about cheeseburgers and foot massages WANT TO dispose of a dead body and they run into a couple who WANTS TO rob the diner they are in (Tarantino breaks rules but he knows to follow the most important one)...
  
  My movie:
  
  
• A vampire who treats her vampirism like a job WANTS TO escape the cop and vampire hunter on her trail:
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG8kFCH1V5E
  
  Get this:
  
  https://www.amazon.com/Art-Dramatic-Writing-Creative-Interpretation/dp/0671213326/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1510115359&sr=8-1&keywords=art+of+dramatic+writing
  
  What's your genre?
  
  Ill give you an idea or two (for free). Ideas are easy, pulling them off is the tricky part.
  

Invisible Ink

https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Ink-Practical-Building-Resonate/dp/0984178627

This one only has one point but it separates the shallow from writing that resonates and tells you why.



These go a long way but I think experience helps you understand why this list is so good.
http://www.aerogrammestudio.com/2013/03/07/pixars-22-rules-of-storytelling/


This books got a couple of important points particularly talking about "character vs plot" and the "unity of opposites"

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0671213326/ref=mp_s_a_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491923420&sr=8-1-fkmr0&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=lejos+egri