If you've ever dreamed of writing a screenplay, The Screenwriter Within is the book for you. Insightful, inspirational, and wildly irreverent, it takes you through all the stages of the writing process, using references to hit movies and the author's personal experience to show you how to:
Turn everyday events into big-screen successes
Find the best stories to turn into screenplays
Develop strong characters
Write compelling dialogue
Find your niche as a screenwriter . . . and much more.
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"Clever, concise, educational and entertaining. A must for every young writer . . . and some of us older ones, too."
-- Richard Wesley, screenwriter, Native Son
"No book can teach you how to become passionate about screenwriting. No other book can better help you focus that passion than The Screenwriter Within. It captures D.B.'s unique ability to instill technique while evoking big-ass belly laughs."
-- Andrew Gurland,
1998 Grand Jury Prize Winner, Sundance Film Festival
D. B. Gilles is both a professor and a produced writer, having written for the stage, television, and screen. He teaches in the Dramatic Writing Program and the Film and Television Department at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, widely considered the number one film school in the country. In The Screenwriter Within, he uses his intensive experience in the classroom to give beginning screenwriters the confidence and enthusiasm they need.
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