Screenplay Workbook: The Writing Before The Writing

by Jeremy Robinson, Tom Mungovan

The Screenplay Workbook is an instructional manual that contains proprietary worksheets, charts, and fill-in lists designed to help screenwriters focus while writing a screenplay. The worksheets will help the screenwriter with the creation of characters, plots, and concepts - joining all of these aspects together seamlessly.  The Screenplay Workbook  brings together every element needed to not only start a screenplay, but - even more importantly - to successfully finish one.

Genres: Writing, Nonfiction, Reference

208 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2003

About the author

Jeremy Robinson is the New York Times bestselling author of seventy novels and novellas, including Apocalypse Machine, Island 731, and SecondWorld, as well as the Jack Sigler thriller series and Project Nemesis, the highest selling, original (non-licensed) kaiju novel of all time. He’s known for mixing elements of science, history and mythology, which has earned him the #1 spot in Science Fiction and Action-Adventure, and secured him as the top creature feature author. Many of his novels have been adapted into comic books, optioned for film and TV, and translated into thirteen languages. He lives in New Hampshire with his wife and three children. Visit him at www.bewareofmonsters.com.

Reviews

[Russ Dumanovsky · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great tool for writers! I have hundreds of copies from this book for my various writing projects. Highly recommended!

[Nick Wesley · Rating 5 out of 5]

amazing for the armature screen writer. I have a lot to learn but this has helped!

[Thomas · Rating 4 out of 5]

These two authors, screenwriters who also do graphic design, have created some wonderful forms to help you conceive of and flesh out a story idea and turn it into a screenplay. The advantage is that they regard Hollywood as a money-making machine; they are not interested in helping you generate your brilliant literary idea, simply in creating a salable screenplay. Sometimes that's exactly what one needs. I am using it to guide my thinking about novels, not screenplays, but it really works out the same at the concept and story level.

The forms are very helpful, but the explanatory text is clunky and the proofreading is wonky. That almost put me off. All told it balances out and I found it a helpful book.

Be warned that it's a slim book to begin with, and a lot of it is repeated pages of forms -- it's intended to be a *workbook*. Psychologically I still can't write in books, so I guess I'd be screwed if I hadn't borrowed it to begin with. It's a bit much to pay for a lot of duplicated pages, but I think it's worth my acquiring a copy and using it like an actual workbook... hey, it's like 5th grade math class for my slasher screenplay!

Overall, a very interesting book and different than the other writing guides I've read.

[Tom Mungovan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome book for the begining screenplay writer. Neatly and correctly organizes your thoughts. Forces you to really think about your screenplay. The end result will be much improved.

[Linda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Helpful for all types of writing. Much of the book is the worksheets so it is a quick read for the text. Recommend reading the text through once and then going back.to use the worksheets.