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u/tpounds0 · 2 pointsr/Screenwriting

Writing the Romantic Comedy
by Billy Mernit
Not on Kindle, which is my main gripe. Very useful structure.
Supposedly the ebook is a coming. I'm ready.
Writing the Comedy Blockbuster: The Inappropriate Goal
by Keith Giglio
Save the Cat but focused specifically on writing comedies. Really focuses on making sure you derive maximum conflict from your protagonist meeting your premise.
Elephant Bucks: An Insider's Guide to Writing for TV Sitcoms
by Sheldon Bull
A decades long professional writer and showrunner tells you how to write a sitcom. You're dumb if you wanna write sitcoms and haven't cracked this open yet.
How to Write Funny: Your Serious, Step-By-Step Blueprint For Creating Incredibly, Irresistibly, Successfully Hilarious Writing
by Scott Dikkers
Again, a professional explains how he works. Dikkers was head writer on The Onion for years and years.
Writing the Pilot
by William Rabkin
Again, a veteran showrunner explains what he knows.
Screenwriting is Rewriting: The Art and Craft of Professional Revision 1st Edition
by Jack Epps Jr
Fucking gold. I'd read it even before you start a first draft.
William Martell Blue Books
Three Hundred Pages on Act Two and how to craft it. Three Hundred and Ten pages on the first ten pages of your screenplay! Three hundred and ninety! Pages! On! Action lines!
Essential if you want to really dig deep on a specific skill of screenwriting.
Writing for emotional impact : advanced dramatic techniques to attract, engage, and fascinate the reader from beginning to end by Karl Iglesias
A very useful lens to think about screenwriting through. I'd consider this the intro to the kind of specificity that the Blue Books will break down into.
Writing Movies for Fun and Profit by Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon
Four quadrant movies are probably the hardest movies to do well. And these guys did them, very well. Plus the book will make you laugh as you read it.
Writing the Other by by Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward
- Which is a practical guide to writing about experiences that are not your own, with a focus on race, gender, and sexual orientation.
It'll definitely inform my take the next time reddit implodes on who can write what character.

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The only non Screenwriter on the list are Scott Dikkers, Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward.

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I'm Currently going through:
Wit's End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It by James Geary
- I am always trying to be smarter and funnier. And funny smart people get hired.
Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence by Lisa Cron
The science behind why we enjoy narrative and how that can guide writers to write well.

And want to read:
The Hero Succeeds: The Character-Driven Guide to Writing Your TV Pilot by Kam Miller
Working Writer. 500 pages on characters in a pilot. Real world examples. Of course I want to read this.
I think I heard about it from Paperteam, or a blog post on the WGA Foundation page.