150 Screenwriting Challenges

by Eric Heisserer

Writer/director Eric Heisserer has collected 150 specific exercises to help screenwriters develop and hone their skills in dialogue, character, story, idea generation, and rewriting. Hi. I'm Eric, and I'm a working screenwriter, which is a dressed-up way of saying it's how I pay the rent. I started writing for the chance at paying the rent with it about fifteen years ago (oh god, that's a long time, I was such a derp), and during that long, slow crawl uphill to professional status I learned a ton of tricks and tests to help me improve my craft, including ways to find my own unique voice, and methods to break through writer's block.A few years ago I began sharing these writing challenges on Twitter (@HIGHzurrer) and gained a healthy number of followers who were just here for the "writing insight porn" if you know what I mean. This book contains my favorite challenges from that collection, plus a few dozen new ones I've learned since then.To be honest, the book is going to be as much a reference document for myself as I hope it will be for you, so here it is. We're in this together. - Eric

Genres: Writing, Film, Nonfiction

174 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 6, 2013

Reviews

[Mark P]

Practical

It gave me immediate satisfaction (results) and is applicable to all types of writing and creative development. If I had a physical copy it would live folded in the pocket of my favorite jeans, warm and weathered.

[adamenka]

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[Bill Daley]

Always looking for more ways to get me in a chair and write.

[Fernando Polanco]

Trasciende todos los manuales de teoría del guión y va directo a proponer ejercicios prácticos que harán que escribas más y mejor. La técnica del tecleo, la técnica mejor.