The Screenwriter's Problem Solver: How to Recognize, Identify, and Define Screenwriting Problems

In this comprehensive, step-by-step guide, best-selling author Syd Field (Screenplay Hook professional readers by writing the most powerful version of your script's first ten pages,  
and The Screenwriter's Workbook) helps you identify and remedy common screenwriting problems. Field provides professional secrets that make movies brilliant - secrets that can elevate the quality of your screenplay, and aim it for success. 
Using The Screenwriter's Problem Solver, you'll learn to:

• Understand how great stories work regarding: structure, feeling, entertainment value and more, 

• Hook professional readers by writing the most powerful version of your script's first ten pages,  

• Use a "dream assignment" to liberate elusive parts of your creative self, overnight, 

• Leverage action to build character, the way Quentin Tarantino does,

• Recover when you "hit the wall" - and overcome writer's block forever.

Acclaimed as "the guru of all screenwriters" (CNN), Syd Field (1935-2013) is still regarded by many Hollywood professionals to be the leading authority in the art and craft of screenwriting. 

The Hollywood Reporter called him "the most sought-after screenwriting teacher in the world."

Field's internationally acclaimed best-selling books "Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting," "The Screenwriter's Workbook," and "The Screenwriter's Problem Solver" have established themselves as the "bibles" of the film industry. "Screenplay" and "The Screenwriter's Workbook" are in their fortieth printing and are used in colleges and universities across the country. They have been translated and published in more than 25 languages.