They're going to get way more than one ton.

I couldn't gift-wrap the Tampons and send them a card but the thought is there.

> "If you leave that sand on your clit it will turn into a pearl."

Holy shit if anyone else reads this and decides to send salt and wants to add a bonus gift

It's also mentioned in this fantastic book. It's really pricey, but so worth it if you want a look into how the films were made but can't afford to go to Leavesden.

Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People https://www.amazon.com/dp/0520240731/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_hsJODb3HY1A51

If you're reading 1984 and Brave New World (and you should), also check out Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.

Do NOT go into debt for film school.

If it is payed for, then sure, it should be a lot of fun. But your reel already surpasses 95% of what I see from students who have already graduated film school.

If you are taking out money to go to film school.... dont. Student loan payments are one of the biggest obstacles when trying to launch a freelance career. Also, a film degree doesnt mean dick to most people in this industry. Unless you want to have a 9-5 at a studio or something. And thats stupid.

Use the money to:

1. live for a year without having to take a job and start working for free on any set you can get on. This type of education far exceeds anything you will glean at a film school. By the end of the year you should have been
   
   or
   
   
2. use the money to make a low-budget feature. Your photography is already strong, now go buy:
   
   http://www.amazon.com/Story-Substance-Structure-Principles-Screenwriting/dp/0413715604/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=
   
   http://www.amazon.com/Screenplay-Foundations-Screenwriting-Syd-Field/dp/0385339038/ref=pd_sim_b_9
   
   http://www.amazon.com/The-Writers-Journey-Structure-Edition/dp/193290736X/ref=pd_sim_b_5
   
   http://www.amazon.com/Save-Last-Book-Screenwriting-Youll/dp/1932907009/ref=pd_sim_b_2
   
   http://www.amazon.com/Making-Movies-Sidney-Lumet/dp/0679756604
   
   Absorb. Read again. Then write and shoot your own movies. It will cost less than film school, it will be MORE fun than listening to failed film makers telling you how to make movies, and it could potentially launch your career.
   
   Also, if you are ever in New Orleans, PM me and I will buy you a beer.

Yes, but with a caveat. Humans are complex creatures. There has been research done in fruit flies where sequences of genes can be switched on and off and cause a preference for one sex or the other.

There is actually a very well researched book called "Evolutions Rainbow" that discusses your question in far greater depth than I could discuss here.

And if you're wondering why those genes don't get selected out (well if gay people don't have kids why are people still gay), it's because the areas that control sexuality aren't one simple on/off toggle switch in humans. So essentially, gay people are created by straight people who pass on the genetic traits for homosexual individuals.

It's also worth pointing out that in addition to sexuality not being a simple toggle switch, the preference for men/women is also fluid. You can look at the Kinsey scale which gives examples of this.

There are people that will identify as entirely straight, entirely gay, people who identify as equally attracted to both sexes, and people who are straight but may be open to encounters with the same sex even if they don't have a strong preference for it.

Okay, I'm finding that a little hard to believe, because a simple search on Google Scholar would find dozens of such articles. But here are a few citations purely from my own research:

Balay, A. (2012). “Incloseto Putbacko!”: Queerness in Adolescent Fantasy Fiction. The Journal of Popular Culture, 45(5), 923-942.

Ehnenn, Jill R. (2007). Queering Harry Potter. In Peele, Thomas (Ed.), Queer popular culture: Literature, media, film, and television (pp.229-256). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Hall, D. (2003). Queer theories. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Halperin, D. (2003). The Normalization of Queer Theory. Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 45, Iss. 2-4.

Hollinger, V. (1999). (Re)reading Queerly: Science Fiction, Feminism, and the Defamiliarisation of Gender. Science Fiction Studies 26(1), 23-40.

Kilgore, De W. (2009). Queering Humanity in SF. In ‘SFS Symposium: Sexuality in Science Fiction’. Science Fiction Studies, 36(3), 385-403.

Lipton, M. (2008). Queer Readings of Popular Culture: Searching [to] Out the Subtext. In Driver, S. (Ed.), Queer Youth Cultures (pp.163-180). Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Pearson, W. (1999). Alien Cryptographies: the View from Queer. Science Fiction Studies, 26(1), 1-22.

Pearson, W. (2009). Queer Theory. In M. Bould, A. Butler, A. Roberts & S. Vint (Eds.), The Routledge companion to science fiction (pp. 298-307). Oxford: Routledge.

And here are five academic books on the topic:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Critical-Introduction-Queer-Theory/dp/0748615970/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Queer-Theory-Introduction-Annamarie-Jagose/dp/0814742343/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/No-Future-Queer-Theory-Death/dp/0822333694/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Genealogy-Queer-Theory-American-Subjects/dp/1566397871/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Queer-Phenomenology-Orientations-Objects-Others-ebook/dp/B00EHNZ2FY/

There's also a great one written by Toshio Suzuki that came out a year ago, about being the producer on all those movies (except Cagliostro). It's written as a single book and reveals a lot about his producing style (which mainly seems to be encouraging risk even when Miyazaki wants to do his usual thing) Very revealing look at how it was Suzuki's perseverance that REALLY gets these guys to work, too. Looks like it's already out of print, but I really recommend it for hardcore fans. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mixing-work-pleasure-Toshio-Suzuki/dp/4866580224/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=toshio+suzuki&qid=1565518902&s=instant-video&sr=1-1-catcorr

I made a list based on where you can purchase them if you want to edit it onto your post:

This Month's Book

• The Woman in the Dunes by Kobe Abe
  
  

  January:
  

  
  

• [Consider Phlebas
  by Iain Banks]
  (https://www.amazon.com/Consider-Phlebas-Culture-Iain-Banks/dp/031600538X)
  
  
• [Brave New World
  by Aldous Huxley]
  (https://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-World-Aldous-Huxley/dp/0060850523)
  
  
• Fahrenheit 451
  by Ray Bradbury
  
  
  
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
  by Oscar Wilde
  
  
• Children of Time
  by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  
  
• [12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
  by Jordan B. Peterson]
  (https://www.amazon.com/12-Rules-Life-Antidote-Chaos/dp/B0797Y87JC)
  
  
  

  February:
  

  
  

• I Am Legend
  by Richard Matheson
  
  
• Dune
  by Frank Herbert
  
  
• Kafka on the Shore
  by Haruki Murakami
  
  
• American Psycho
  by Bret Easton Ellis
  
  
• Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
  by Max Tegmark
  
  
• Beyond Good and Evil
  by Friedrich Nietzsche
  
  

  March:
  

  
  

• The Old Man and The Sea
  by Ernest Hemingway
  
  
• Moby Dick
  by Herman Melville
  
  
• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
  
  
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  
  
• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
  
  
• The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
  
  
• The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
  
  
• The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
  
  
• Bushido: The Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe
  
  

  April:
  

  
  

• [The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart]
  (https://www.amazon.com/Dice-Man-Luke-Rhinehart/dp/0879518642)
  
  
• [Stoner by John Williams](
  https://www.amazon.com/Stoner-York-Review-Books-Classics/dp/1590171993)
  
  
• [Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky]
  (https://www.amazon.com/Crime-Punishment-Fyodor-Dostoyevsky/dp/0486415872)
  
  
• [No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai](
  https://www.amazon.com/No-Longer-Human-Osamu-Dazai/dp/0811204812)
  
  
• Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima
  
  

  May:
  

  
  

• [Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima](
  https://www.amazon.com/Spring-Snow-Sea-Fertility-1/dp/0679722416)
  
  
• [Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima]
  (https://www.amazon.com/Runaway-Horses-Sea-Fertility-2/dp/0679722408)
  
  
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
  
  
• In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon by Bhikkhu Bodhi
  
  
• Mythos by Stephen Fry
  
  
• Inferno by August Strindberg
  
  

  November
  

  
  

• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  
  
• Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death by Yoel Hoffmann
  
  
• Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
  
  
• Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
  
  

  Books Pewds suggested but hasn't talked about in any of the episodes yet:
  

  
  

• The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
  
  
• Tony Takitani by Haruki Murakami
  
  
• The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
  
  linking pewds to see this u/pewpewpewPEWdie

I have read many screenwriting manuals over the years, but for me, the best one by far is the humble Teach Yourself: Break Into Screenwriting.

After that the most essential resource I have found is the columns at wordplayer.com. These are written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio (Pirates of the Caribbean, Shrek etc.) based on their many years of first hand experience at the epicenter of the Hollywood machine.

As for software, the gold standard is Final Draft. It's expensive, but it does take all the headache out of screenplay formatting. There is also an application called Celtx which I think is free, but I haven't used it.

An essential practice in becoming a screenwriting is to read other peoples' scripts, good and bad. At Kevin Spacey's Triggerstreet or Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope you can read scripts by other aspiring writers, and at imsdb.com you can read scripts of films that have been produced and released. Try to get into the habit of reading a script a day and watching a movie a day.

As a (very small time) indie producer who gets sent scripts all the time, I would say the number one beginner's mistake is writing stories that are too expensive to produce. The major studios are the only bodies that can shoot big budget projects, and they won't read unsolicited scripts from unrepresented writers (i.e. without an agent). Getting an agent is a Herculean task in itself (you need to have two great scripts completed and be working on a third before you should even start the process of approaching agents). Independents aren't in a financial position to shoot FX heavy scifi or cast-of-thousands historical epics. So to get the first script produced, screenwriters have to think like a producer, and figure out how to write a story that can be filmed in a cost effective manner. For inspiration watch as many micro-budget films as you can and figure out what works and what doesn't work.

Best wishes for your ongoing endeavors - it is great that you're starting so young and I hope you will achieve success.

Here are some quick recommendations from my list of favorites for those who are interested (I hope mods are OK with links to make looking easier, otherwise I'll happily remove them). These books engaged and inspired me and my imagination:

The Alchemist:

>The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho continues to change the lives of its readers forever. With more than two million copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has established itself as a modern classic, universally admired.

>Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found.

The Three Body Problem is a Chinese Science Fiction novel that has recently become popular in the West thanks to a good translation (I recommend reading my synopsis and not the Amazon one, to avoid spoilers):

>Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project looks for signals in space from alien civilizations. Meanwhile, in the present day, a physicist joins a grizzled detective to investigate why famous scientists are all committing suicide.

Fahrenheit 451:

>Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.

The Art of Happiness (by the Dalai Lama):

>Nearly every time you see him, he's laughing, or at least smiling. And he makes everyone else around him feel like smiling. He's the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, a Nobel Prize winner, and a hugely sought-after speaker and statesman. Why is he so popular? Even after spending only a few minutes in his presence you can't help feeling happier.

Snow Crash:

>Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he’s a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that’s striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about infocalypse.

As far as suggestions go, this is the most advice I can give you:

• Write something that you would want to read. I know it seems somewhat obvious, but really this is the general rule of thumb that I follow whenever I set out to write a story.
  
  
• (As what everyone else seems to be saying in here) READ, constantly. But while reading, try to both enjoy the story and analyze what exactly the author is doing to make it work. Which brings us to the next point...
  
  
• Emulate other writers. Learn their secrets and techniques.
  
  
• If you're stuck on what to write about, try automatic writing. One of the best ways to get through writer's block is to essentially "write through the block", as my creative writing professor told me and my class. Just write anything and everything that comes to mind, it doesn't matter what you type; it's not like anyone is going to be reading it, right? All you have to do is find a steady rhythm while you're typing and until you start to see a "voice" develop in the writing itself. Once you have that voice, you can take your reader anywhere.
  
  For general books on writing fiction, the one that I would recommend would be Fiction Writer's Workshop. I used this for my intro to creative writing class, and it was very helpful. The book itself is a great resource since it has a bunch of exercises to work on.
  
  I wish you well in your writing endeavors, now get writing/reading!

https://www.amazon.com/Fahrenheit-451-Ray-Bradbury/dp/1451673310

Well, it's always going to be controversial.

According to Ridley Scott, Deckard IS a Replicant, and over the years, he's released two cuts of the film to move towards making this more explicitly unambiguous.

According to several other key creative minds on the film, including the producer, the writers, and the main actor, it was always meant to be left subtle and ambiguous.

According to me, I much prefer the film with it left ambiguous.

I think it has a much more interesting meaning and purpose to it that way, and is just a better film, frankly. Ridley is known for being a stubborn old goat who domineers all he surveys, but he ain't the boss of me, and I think he's just plain wrong.

Anyway, over the years, I have seen so many various cuts and alternate scenes and versions (such as the megacut on Disc 4 of the box set) that Blade Runner has kind of become the ultimate Phil Dick movie, in that it exists in several different self-contradictory forms simultaneously in a way that is both nonsensical and impossible, very much like the plots of many of his books. I find that to be the greatest tribute to PDK of all (even if it is the unintentional result of a notoriously volatile production).

I can't recommend reading Paul M Sammon's Future Noir highly enough, if you have any interest in this subject.

Edit: Newer link. Looks like even books get a 'Final Cut' nowadays.

Robert McKee and Alexander Mackendrick are my references. I highly recommend these books. Mckee has a whole chapter (if my memory is correct) on voice-over and how lazy it is to explain exposition using it.

source & this too

They look like they've been scanned out a magazine or book to me.

Edit: This looks like the book they were scanned from.

I've always enjoyed this coffee table book by John Clute called Science Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia. A lot of nice photos of books, movies and TV series with some pretty good criticism (not that I agree with it all). You can find a used one cheap on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Science-Fiction-Encyclopedia-John-Clute/dp/0789401851/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491059064&sr=8-1-fkmr1&keywords=The+illustrated+encyclopeida+to+science+fiction+john+clute

I very much enjoyed Starting Point but have not yet read Turning Point because, come on, that thing has been out for five years and they still can't do a paperback edition? I know the second I buy the hardcover a cheaper edition that looks more aesthetically pleasing on my shelf will be announced. I can't let them win.

If anyone's looking for more Ghibli reading that gets into the history of the studio and the personalities therein, Toshio Suzuki's Mixing Work with Pleasure is a good read too.

Fellow Disney book-nerd here! Here are a bunch of my favorites. Hope this helps!

The Art of Animation

The Illusion of Life by Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas

Walt Disney Imagineering by The Imagineers

The Disney That Never Was

Paper Dreams: The Art And Artists Of Disney Storyboards

Before the Animation Begins: The Art & Lives of Disney Inspirational Sketch Artists

The Fairest One of All: The Making of Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Tale as Old as Time: The Art and Making of Beauty and the Beast

Lilo & Stitch: Collected Stories From the Film's Creators

Magic Color Flair: The World of Mary Blair

Lovely: Ladies of Animation

Coming soon:

Marc Davis: Walt Disney’s Renaissance Man

The Nine Old Men by Andreas Deja

Disney During World War II: How the Walt Disney Studio Contributed to Victory in the War

Storytelling, com que propósito?

Não sei se terá a ver com o que procuras mas recomendo estes dois livros.

Story e The Eye Is Quicker.

Certamente mais baratos que esse "curso".

"The Art of The Matrix", incredible book!

https://www.amazon.ca/Art-Matrix-Larry-Wachowski/dp/1840231734

I've read something similar (The Seven Basic Plots). I guess to clarify, I'd say that with movies you have to tell the same story with the same structure in a different way. Maybe it's just because I've studied it the most, but movies seems to be the most mechanically suffocating out of any medium. There are a bajillion things that are not open to creative interpretation that you must abide by if you want to do something new. You have to adapt whatever creative idea you have to make sure it follows every little rule and that's before you even get into creative battles with the producer etc.

I dunno about sites/blogs, but the best single book I've ever read about film is Story by Robert McKee. I'd recommend it to every fan of film and every would-be writer of any type.

What about something like Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury or Animal Farm by George Orwell?

I assume you like the non-mopey philosophical aspect?

You might like Looking for Alaska by John Green (boy meets crazy girl at boarding school) or Feed (boy meets girl on the moon).

If you feel like moving into Adult Literature without changing the narrative style or length, Slaughterhouse-Five, Fahrenheit 451, or If I Die in a Combat Zone might be good choices.

Here is the Book

Here is the [Film](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451_(film)

Here is where you can buy the book

And here is a paragraph I found about elements of postmodernism.

> QUESTION: What are the elements of Postmodernism and Humanism?

ANSWER:

The elements of postmodernism and humanism are varied. Here are some of the more popular topics of interest:
Postmodernists often profess individualism over God and country, desiring the liberty to establish personal truth and allowing each person’s choice to be tolerated.

Many postmodernists promote the ideals of globalization, excluding any traditional moral or civil laws, free enterprise, or governed by a traditional political system.

Many feel that no single person or group should have dominance, special interest, or wealth over another.

The ideals of postmodernism confront and surpass the modern way of thought and lifestyle which relies on science and technology for progress. Postmodernists tend to blame modern capitalism for causing the evil in the modern West.

Many postmodernists ultimately reject Christianity.

At the time this was 50$ https://www.amazon.com/Art-Matrix-Larry-Wachowski/dp/1840231734

yes! questions. I did this game at an acting competition back in college... so much fun. the play is by tom stoppard and you can probably order it from amazon or whatever LINK!

I don't have many sci-fi coffee table books, and those that I do have are too specific and not necessarily what you are looking for, but I REALLY enjoy window shopping for this sort of thing so here goes...

One of these illustrated encyclopedias might be what you are looking for?

This sort of intrigues me.

Here's a list of sci fi art books that might intrigue you, though they aren't movie/book/magazine based, necessarily.

It seems a lot of the books that focus more on posters and the like are even further divided by subcategory... Is there a particular sub-genre of sci-fi that you are looking for? Like I'm seeing a bunch with like Marvel superheroes specifically, or with Star Wars or Middle Earth...

The Giver

Farenheit 451

Night

Still I Rise

First 2 are fiction, emotional and personal growth overall is the centerpoint of the Giver. Farenheit451 is a great story on its face; but has a deeper (but easily recognized) agenda to pursue. Night is Wiesel's own story from WWII (child/teen in concentration camp). NOTE Night is not an easy read so be sure you're ready. I first read it probably 20 years ago and last read it maybe 4 years ago and my eyes are glistening as I type this.

I was going to add I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, but decided to start with "Still I Rise" (poem) is a better place to start.

Maybe start by reading the classics ?

https://www.amazon.com/1984-Signet-Classics-George-Orwell/dp/0451524934/

https://www.amazon.com/Fahrenheit-451-Ray-Bradbury/dp/1451673310/


https://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-World-Revisited/dp/0060535261/

The last on the list (and the most important one ! ) is also being developed to series:

https://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/brave-new-world/279249/brave-new-world-tv-series-usa-network

For movies themselves, this ones are one of the more obvious choices :

https://www.amazon.com/Children-Men-Blu-ray-Clive-Owen/dp/B001YV502C/

https://www.amazon.com/Gattaca-Blu-ray-Ethan-Hawke/dp/B00E3PP9MM/

https://www.amazon.com/Blade-Runner-DBFE-BD-Blu-ray/dp/B07CNC399C/


https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Metropolis-Blu-ray-Brigitte-Helm/dp/B0040QYROK/

The Art of The Matrix collects I believe all of the storyboards used for the first film along with two scripts.

I hope you're being accidently ignorant. Have a read of Harry Potter: Page to Screen; the amount of work and artistry that went into those films is unbelievable.

Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Essential-Vehicles-Vessels/dp/0590023616/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1291380213&sr=8-1

There aren't any templates, every show is different and every network is different, but try reading this book: https://www.amazon.com/little-book-SITCOM-John-Vorhaus-ebook/dp/B006IHZ9KU where he goes into detail how you COULD break down an episode and what you should look for. The most important things I found are CHOICES the characters make in your episode. It makes sense to make sure that you have enough emotional beats in your episode and those beats usually come from the choices the characters make.

1. The King, the Mice and the Cheese. Every kid wanted it from the school library. I got in trouble when it got lost on my bookshelf and incurred late fees. Yes, my school had late fees.
   
   
2. Fahrenheit 451 and The Technicolor Time Machine. I'm not actually much of a reader. TTTM my SF-obsessed father gave me to read and it's the first full regular non-school book I read. Then I read F451 because the title interested me in seeing it on his bookshelf.
   
   As an adult:
   
   
3. Danny the Champion of the World for the absolutely wonderful father-son relationship. Most children's books present parents as adversaries. I remember my mother reading it to me as a child.
   
   
4. The Harry Potter series, reading it to my daughter. The series is absolutely packed with wonderful messages for children.

I've been dying to read this on my Kindle because everyone talks about it all the time! I've heard it's just great.

And for a real book? I'd say this because it's one of my absolute favorites and I hate having to wait to check out a copy from the library every time I want to re-read it.

If I were a book, I hope that I'd be a great one !!

I think this is a lovely contest idea :) I'm always a big fan of anything book-related!! Thanks!

According to this:
http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Images_from_Harry_Potter_Page_to_Screen

The image is from "HP Page to Screen"

Google Is Burying Alternative Health Sites to Protect People from “Dangerous” Medical Advice


Many of us surely think that we're among the elite that really thinks about such and other matters but because those are largely taboo, we can't ever be sure whether our thinking is more ingenious than that of others. Google wants to protect you from conflicting opinions. And if you don’t think that’s a problem, imagine sometime in the future when searching for information on monetary policy you only find results for Modern Monetary Theory. Google thinks its intention to “do the right thing” is enough to prevent abuses; some Google employees would disagree.


In Ray Bradbury’s classic novel Fahrenheit 451, firemen don’t put out fires; they create fires to burn books.

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury!

Might I recommend this: http://www.amazon.com/little-book-SITCOM-John-Vorhaus-ebook/dp/B006IHZ9KU/

Absolutely! It almost feels like he's a minimalist with words though. He can describe something so vividly so succinctly. It's amazing! If you haven't read it, do it now!

Plenty of books will be categorized as "adult" lit while featuring child or teenage characters though. It's hard to be called YA unless your main character is in that very narrow 14-18 age range.

Also, pretty sure the first few Harry Potter printings had adult covers. I had this one.

I do think many predominantly-YA titles will appeal to adult readers though. A couple I've convinced my mom to read are Eleanor & Park, Two Boys Kissing, Song of the Magdalene, and The Hunger Games. Some adult books with wider appeal to YA audiences would be World War Z, Lock In, The Things They Carried, or even classics like Fahrenheit 451.

There's a wonderful book called Evolution's Rainbow by Joan Roughgarden that is entirely about the different genders found in nature. There are several species that have more than one gender like sun fish. (source: that book)

I second doesFreeWillyExist. It's from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard. It's described here. And here's the amazon page.

Great play. If you like it, you should also read Waiting for Godot and Buried Child. Similar styles.

I'm not sure about videos, but Harry Potter Page to Screen: The Complete Filmmaking Journey is the most definitive source for behind-the-scenes information about the making of the series. I'd certainly recommend that book over online clips if you're actually interested in learning more about the filmmaking process.

I still have this book from my childhood. $70 is an insane price for it though - I'm sure you can find a PDF somewhere for much, much cheaper.

NO FUTURE

This is probably one of the questions and arguments that gets me in a lot of trouble with people, primarily because I refuse to comply with what they consider to be the best decision. I've pulled a lot of my thinking on the subject by looking at Lee Edelman's No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. It's an excellent book, although a bit hard to read, about how for the queer individual, we should not have to think about the the future, through the image of a child. In a way, he calls it our queer ascension into the negative. Rather than putting my favorite quotes from the book, I'll give a very very simple gist of the book:

We have conditioned our language and perception of the world with the child in mind. The image of the child is what beckons us to think of the future, and therefore the things we do today, our productive labor, politics, economy is postured with the agreement that it's for the future... for the child. So, the refusal of kids, the refusal to be reproductive, is to open space for non-hetero, non-normative functions to take place. Edelman suggests that this will always be seen as a negative, so he argues that we should ascend to our call towards negativity. The book brings in examples from the movie Children of Man and Hitchcock movies to point out how our "logic" (or as many people in this thread have argued as "programmed") has been prescribed towards a reproductive bias.

I commend /u/jwhoch on your refusal and should you want more discussion about this, I can scan pages from the book that allow you to patiently and elegantly suggest why your choice to not want kids, is in fact just you playing out the role of homos. It really is a thrilling book to read, to see your choices be spelled out as not crazy or bitter, but actual sensibility is rewarding and extraordinary.

Yes, we know from all the Hachette threads exactly how much Reddit drinks the Amazon Kool-Aid. So let's talk about "Amazon" (which in student world is an all-inclusive term that includes actual Amazon and all the sellers on the marketplace).

Amazon as a replacement for the college bookstore.

Here's book with a new retail $168.00 Amazon is offering no discount on this one, their price is the same. In the Marketplace, though, you can get used copies starting at $20. Click down to page 16 (ten per page viewed) and you get over $180, and by the bottom of the page you have people trying to get $500 for it. This is one of the best selling marketing texts in the country, and 160 copies is one good-sized class at a big state university.

Here's one that should be about $35. It's out of print and getting harder to find. 2 sellers below the original $35 price, 2 gouging at $120+.

Books aren't books on Amazon, they're a commodity. You can find some great deals, you can get your ass thoroughly screwed. But if your college bookstore looked at every hard-to-find title as an opportunity to raise prices 4 or 5 times what they should be, you'd actually have something to complain about.

Fahrenheit 451

Unfortunately nothing can be published that doesn't go through JKR. She owns the rights to everything basically. Also I guess the idea is that if you want to know about the sets you have to visit the tour in order to "buy" that knowledge.

Pretty much all of the general info is available by watching the special features on the films, going on Pottermore, and also there are a couple of good books which most Interactors work from, like From Page To Screen.

All the gossip and funny little stories come from original crew members though, by word of mouth, and that's the only stuff that isn't really published, along with the tiny details about props and costumes etc, so for that you'd have to visit the tour.

>Here’s a link that explains the Wally Wood guide a bit more.

That's a real interesting read, I was actually just reading about Cerebus the other day too.


>The most helpful book I’m reading currently is “Save the Cat! Writes a Novel” . Basically a more in depth, beat by beat structure book. Written for novelists, but inspired by a very successful screenwriting book.
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>All that formatting stuff I’ve mentioned I’ve pulled from the web as needed. Kind of teaching myself as I go along and there hasn’t been any breakout book other than Saves the Cat.

You should check out Story by Robert McKee and [Into The Woods by John Yorke.] (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0141978104/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_dtUyDb1953H7P) The former is a very highly recommended book on /r/screenwriting and the latter, I was given by my media lecturer and I am absolutely loving just now. In particular, the characterisation chapters are very helpful.

>I’m learning nobody does this stuff the same way. I am a highly obsessive dude so those sluglines are just my way of doing shit that most people are comfortable with keeping in their head.
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>I’m so paranoid I’ll forget something, or forget to mark how I wanted a composition to look. Then I’ll spend hours...days...stuck on a panel that I could have figured out in a script.

On the one hand, I love how freeform and unique comics scripting is. On the other, I'm also a highly obsessive dude and I'm sometimes paralysed with indecision and end up procrastinating about writing. Maybe I should look into something more regimented, could solve a problem.

Future Noir - The Making of Blade Runner.

I'm not aware of a TED talk, but The Seven Basic Plots may be what you are looking for:

• Overcoming the monster
  
  
• Rags to riches
  
  
• The quest
  
  
• Voyage and return
  
  
• Comedy
  
  
• Tragedy
  
  
• Rebirth
  
  There are a few other variations on this, but Booker's text is probably the most widely known.

Annnnd here we go again. I'm doing this with all books, just because.

Allegiant

Berenstain Bears

Calvin and Hobbes

Dune

Edgar Allen Poe collection

Fahrenheit 451

Gulliver's Travels

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

If You Give A Mouse A Cookie

Julie of the Wolves

Kite Runner

Little House on the Prairie

Machine of Death

Neverending Story

Omnitopia Dawn (The book I'm reading now, actually!)

Pilgrim's Progress

Quarter Share (Also available free as a podiobook!)

Room

Snow Crash

[Tell-Tale Brain](http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_9?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=tell-tale brain&sprefix=tell-tale%2Cstripbooks%2C222&rh=i%3Astripbooks%2Ck%3Atell-tale brain&ajr=2)

Uglies

Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Watership Down

Xenocide

Year Zero

Zen and the Art of Knitting

Could be this?

Or this?

I can't think of any resources online off the top of my head, but I'll give you my top tip I wish I'd known when I first started

Everything is visual. It helps to 'see' the scene happening in your head. However, don't over-describe things. General convention says a page of your script is about a minute of screentime. When you're watching a film, a camera panning over scenery quickly becomes dull, so cut the fat on the descriptions and pack it full of dialogue and action.

A quick bit of google-fu has produced this site. I don't really know if it's any good though... Personally I found the book Break into Screenwriting incredibly helpful when just starting out.

I'm by no means an expert, but feel free to shoot me any questions you have - and have fun! I find screenwriting to be incredibly freeing and things I write in this form seen so much more original compared to the prose I write, hopefully you enjoy it just as much.

I'd like to read Fahrenheit 451 again. Yep, again. I was forced to read it at the age of TWELVE for english class, hated it, and (ironically) really wanted to burn it by the time we'd finished it. I think I'd appreciate it a heck of a lot more now... seriously, who makes a 12 year old read that??

Elephant barber.

About me.... I actually do enjoy reading most books... :P I'm in college and am trying to figure out what to do with my life. I love horses, music (singing), books, film, and TV, and art. And Disney. I also have five kitties.

Agreed. And if you can score a copy, Lawrence Block's Telling Lies For Fun and Profit is also great.

If I may be permitted a plug for a good friend, Alexandra Sokoloff's Screenwriting Tips for Authors

(http://www.amazon.com/Screenwriting-Tricks-Authors-Screenwriters-ebook/dp/B0032JSJ9U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1302211307&sr=1-1)

has a lot of excellent advice about three-act structure and the like.

This totally reminds me of the cover of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

This book will brilliantly solve your problem. He outlines using a “3 disaster” structure for creating a plot and has a brilliant method for starting super-big picture then getting more and more detailed about what should happen in the plot.

How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method (Advanced Fiction Writing) (Volume 1) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1500574058/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_UfXBDbHX2NH44

A book I recently began reading The Fiction Writers Workshop has a huge chapter on description writing! The author has some really awesome advice and a few exercises for practice. This book has helped me with character design, description and organizing my plot haha! I really recommend it!