Writing For Screens: Skills, Tools & Process for the Art Of Screenwriting

No system. No rules. Just a way to work: practical tools, skills and techniques you can use right now.

An award-winning screenwriter with 25 years of experience gives you a flexible and creative approach for writing features, series, shorts, games, animation, even stories and novels.

“Writing For Screens” collects over 100 how-to essays on everything from character and dialogue to writer’s block, organizing your project, getting lost or stuck and defining success in a changing, chaotic industry.

Written in a clear, inspiring style, it’s an unexpected mix of detailed technical tips and thought-provoking insights into storytelling, creativity and being an artist.

Glenn Gers’ screenwriting career includes Hollywood movies and DIY indies, television series and original audiobooks. His “Writing For Screens” videos have been viewed more than half a million times on YouTube.

In his 25-year screenwriting career, Glenn Gers worked in a baffling array of genres, including thriller (FRACTURE, starring Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling), caper-comedy (MAD MONEY, directed by Callie Khouri, starring Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, Ted Danson and Katie Holmes), family Christmas comedy (OFF SEASON), micro-budget horror (INNER DEMONS), sitcom (INSTANT MOM staff writer) and an audiobook spinoff from the series HOMELAND, read by Damien Lewis. Among his uncredited writing jobs were sci-fi-action and action-comedy rewrites, werewolf thrillers, Biblical and literary adaptations and rom-coms.He wrote and directed the indie films LIKE.SHARE.FOLLOW, (produced by Blumhouse) and DISFIGURED (a DIY micro-budget dramedy about an unexpected friendship between two women: one obese, the other anorexic.)Awards include an Emmy, a special award from the Women's Film Critic's Circle, multiple festival prizes, Writer's Guild and PRISM Award nominations and a Fellowship Grant in Screenwriting from the New York Foundation For The Arts. He has lectured or mentored at The Austin Screenwriting Conference, Full Sail University, Cinestory, The David Lynch MFA Program, and the AFI Directing Workshop for Women. His interview on the Film Courage Youtube channel is (for now) their most-viewed video, with over 4.5 million views.Now retired from screenwriting, he has been teaching on his YouTube channel, Writing For Screens. Aside from 50 10-minute lessons -- from which this book is adapted -- the channel features wide-ranging weekly livestream sessions and a video series in which he wrote a full pilot script live online, in 265 hour-long sessions.