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Books like Scriptwriting for the Screen

Looking for read-alikes for Scriptwriting for the Screen by Charlie Moritz? These 24 titles overlap in Screenwriting, Screenplays, Television, and Film and overall literary texture.

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Rapid Story Development How to Use the Enneagram-Story Connection to Become a Master Storyteller — Jeff Lyons

Rapid Story Development How to Use the Enneagram-Story Connection to Become a Master Storyteller

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Television

A Masterclass in Dramatic Writing Theater, Film, and Television — Janet Neipris

A Masterclass in Dramatic Writing Theater, Film, and Television

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Television

Screenwriting Poetics and the Screen Idea — I. MacDonald

Screenwriting Poetics and the Screen Idea

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Television

The GoFaSt Guide to Screenwriting The Goals, Failures and Stakes Model of Narrative Storytelling — Greg Takoudes

The GoFaSt Guide to Screenwriting The Goals, Failures and Stakes Model of Narrative Storytelling

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Television

The Nice and Accurate Good Omens TV Companion — Neil Gaiman

The Nice and Accurate Good Omens TV Companion

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Television

Interstellar The Complete Screenplay with Selected Storyboards — Jonathan Nolan

Interstellar The Complete Screenplay with Selected Storyboards

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Television

How to Write a Movie in 21 Days (Revised Edition) The Inner Movie Method — Viki King

How to Write a Movie in 21 Days (Revised Edition) The Inner Movie Method

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Television

Writing the Romantic Comedy The Art of Crafting Funny Love Stories for the Screen — Billy Mernit

Writing the Romantic Comedy The Art of Crafting Funny Love Stories for the Screen

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Television

Elements of Style for Screenwriters The Essential Manual for Writers of Screenplays — Paul Argentini

Elements of Style for Screenwriters The Essential Manual for Writers of Screenplays

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Television

Save the Cat!® Beat Sheet Workbook How Writers Turn Ideas Into Stories — Jamie Nash

Save the Cat!® Beat Sheet Workbook How Writers Turn Ideas Into Stories

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Television

Write Screenplays That Sell: The Ackerman Way 20th Anniversary Edition, Newly Revised and Updated — Hal Ackerman

Write Screenplays That Sell: The Ackerman Way 20th Anniversary Edition, Newly Revised and Updated

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Television

The Guide for Every Screenwriter From Synopsis to Subplots: The Secrets of Screenwriting Revealed — Geoffrey D Calhoun

The Guide for Every Screenwriter From Synopsis to Subplots: The Secrets of Screenwriting Revealed

Geoffrey D Calhoun

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Television

Kill the Dog The First Book on Screenwriting to Tell You the Truth — Paul Guyot

Kill the Dog The First Book on Screenwriting to Tell You the Truth

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Television

Into the Woods How Stories Work and why We Tell Them — John Yorke

Into the Woods How Stories Work and why We Tell Them

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Television

Baggy Pants Comedy Burlesque and the Oral Tradition — A. Davis

Baggy Pants Comedy Burlesque and the Oral Tradition

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Television

Slam — Richard H. Stratton

Richard H. Stratton

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Film

Writing the Romantic Comedy From “Cute Meet” to “Joyous Defeat”: How To Write Screenplays That Sell — Billy Mernit

Writing the Romantic Comedy From “Cute Meet” to “Joyous Defeat”: How To Write Screenplays That Sell

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Film

The Spanish Prisoner and The Winslow Boy Two Screenplays — David Mamet

The Spanish Prisoner and The Winslow Boy Two Screenplays

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Film

The Serious Guide to Joke Writing How to Say Something Funny about Anything — Sally Holloway

The Serious Guide to Joke Writing How to Say Something Funny about Anything

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Film

Oppenheimer — Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Film

Classical Storytelling and Contemporary Screenwriting Aristotle and the Modern Scriptwriter — Brian Price

Classical Storytelling and Contemporary Screenwriting Aristotle and the Modern Scriptwriter

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Film

The Evolution of Hollywood’s Calculated Blockbuster Films Blockbusted — Alexander Ross

The Evolution of Hollywood’s Calculated Blockbuster Films Blockbusted

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Film

The Film Novelist Writing a Screenplay and Short Novel in 15 Weeks — Dennis J. Packard

The Film Novelist Writing a Screenplay and Short Novel in 15 Weeks

Dennis J. Packard

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Film

Screenwriters Advice From Popular and Award Winning Film, TV, and Streaming Shows — Andrew Zinnes

Screenwriters Advice From Popular and Award Winning Film, TV, and Streaming Shows

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Film

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Screenwriting, Screenplays, Television — the same threads that run through Scriptwriting for the Screen by Charlie Moritz. Among the authors featured: Jeff Lyons, Janet Neipris, I. MacDonald, Greg Takoudes, and others.

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