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Some books to get you started

· Anthony Q. Artis, The Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide: A Down&DirtyDV Production

· Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces

· Danny Martin Flynn, How Not to Write a Screenplay: 101 Common Mistakes Most Screenwriters Make

· Syd Field,Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting

· Syd Field, The Screenwriter's Workbook

· Syd Field, Four Screenplays: Studies in the American Screenplay

· William Goldman, Adventures in the Screen Trade; Which Lie Did I Tell: More Adventures in the Screen Trade

· Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting

· Ralph Rosenblum and Robert Karen, When the Shooting Stops, the Cutting Begins: A Film Editor's Story

· Christine Vachon, Shooting to Kill (what it's like to produce an indie film -- a report from the trenches)

· Christopher Vogler, The Writers Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers



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