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Online Resources......................................................................2
Savvy Screenwriting Bloggers.................................................3
Fabulous Film Bloggers............................................................3
Goodies for Cinephiles..............................................................4
Recommended Reading...........................................................5
Online Resources
Script Magazine
Final Draft
Greenwriter
TriggerStreet
Writer's Digest
Mahler's Script-Beat Calculator
A Screenwriting Glossary
Film Studies for Free
Dave Trottier
WGA, West
WGA's Screen Credits Manual
Film Industry Terms
U.S. Copyright Office
Internet Movie Database
Bartleby
How Stuff Works
The Elements of Style
15,000 Useful Phrases
Gray's Anatomy
Emily Post's Etiquette in Society
Encyclopedia of Psychology
Wikipedia
Free Thesaurus
Resources for Writers
Free Translations
The Free Dictionary
Medical Dictionary
Legal Dictionary
Reverse Dictionary
Urban Dictionary
Rhyming Dictionary
PoemHunter
Acronyms
Cliches
Oxymorons
Web Gallery of Art
Symbols
Simply Scripts
My PDF Scripts
Nicholl
Movie Cliches
Movie Mistakes
Project Gutenberg
Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics
Colin's Movie Monologues
Ebert's Little Movie Glossary
Savvy Screenwriting Bloggers
Script Mag
John August
Ted & Terry
Billy Mernit
Danny Stack
Carson Reeves
Alex Epstein
Craig Mazin
Unknown Screenwriter
Mike Le
John Rogers
Scott Myers
Bill Martell
Joshua James
Lucy V Hay
Julie Gray
Alexandra Sokoloff
Screenwriter's League
Anon Production Asst
Désirée
Scott W. Smith
W.C. Dixon
William Speruzzi
Craig
Mark Achtenberg
Kevin Lehane
Emily Blake
MaryAn Batchellor
Janet
Piers Beckley
Tim Claque
Kevin Broom
Bob G
James Henry
Screenwriter's Almanac
MM's old blog
Fabulous Film Bloggers
Girish Shambu
David Bordwell
The House Next Door
Jim Emerson
Dennis Cozzalio
The Siren
Roger Ebert
James Berardinelli
Goodies for Cinephiles
Offscreen
The Auteurs' Notebook
Bright Lights Film Journal
Senses of Cinema
Indiewire
Thompson on Hollywood
Risky Biz
Movie City News
Hollywood Elsewhere
Deadline Hollywood Daily
Empire Online
Moving Image Source
Shooting Down Pictures
The Greatest Films
Strictly Film School
Opening Shots Project
Film Inc
Jump Cut
Cinema Scope
They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Reverse Shot
Film-Philosophy
Images
Rouge
Filmbrain
Metaphilm
Recommended Reading
Poetics
by Aristotle
Poetics of Cinema
by David Bordwell
Film Art: An Introduction with Tutorial CD-ROM
The Screenwriters Legal Guide
by Stephen F. Breimer, Esq.
The Name Above the Title
by Frank Capra
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
by Joseph Campbell
Penguin Dictionary of Symbols
by Jean Chevalier
Playwrights on Playwriting: From Ibsen to Ionesco
by Toby Cole
The Story of Film: A Worldwide History of Film
by Mark Cousins
Writing with Hitchcock
by Steven DeRosa
Ultimate Visual Dictionary
by DK Publishing
Cinema Now
by Paul Duncan
Emotional Structure: Creating the Story Beneath the Plot
by Peter Dunne
The Art Of Dramatic Writing
by Lajos Egri
Crafty Screenwriting: Writing Movies That Get Made
by Alex Epstein
The Foundations of Screenwriting
by Syd Field
The Screenwriter's Problem Solver
Going to the Movies: A Personal Journey
Masters of the Drama
by John Gassner
How NOT to Write a Screenplay
by Denny Martin Flinn
The Last Days of Alfred Hitchcock
by David Freeman
Defining Moments in Movies
Edited by Chris Fujiwara
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Adventure in the Screen Trade
by William Goldman
Which Lie Did I Tell?
The Big Book Of Filth: 6500 Sex Slang Words and Phrases
by Jonathon Green
The Big Book of Being Rude: 7000 Slang Insults
The Big Book of Bodily Functions: 4500 Words for Bodily Functions
Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose
by Constance Hale
Comedy Writing Secrets
by Mel Helitzer
American Dialects: A Manual for Actors, Directors, and Writers
by Lewis Herman
Foreign Dialects: A Manual for Actors, Directors, and Writers
The 101 Habits Of Highly Successful Screenwriters
by Karl Iglesias
Writing for Emotional Impact
On Writing
by Stephen King
Breakfast with Sharks
by Michael Lent
Story: Substance, Structure, Style & Principles of Screenwriting
by Robert McKee
Writing the Romantic Comedy
by Billy Mernit
What Happens Next: A History of American Screenwriting
by Marc Norman
Setting up your Scenes
by Richard D. Pepperman
Spunk & Bite: A Writer's Guide to Bold, Contemporary Style
by Arthur Plotnik
Story Structure Architect
by Victoria Lynn Schmidt
The Art of Adaptation
by Linda Seger
Creating Unforgettable Characters
Making a Good Script Great
The F-Word
by Jesse Sheidlower
Cinematic Storytelling
by Jennifer van Sijll
Save the Cat!
By Blake Snyder
20 Master Plots: And How to Build Them
by Ronald Tobias
Hitchcock
by Francois Trauffaut
The Screenwriters Bible
by Dave Trottier
The Writer Got Screwed (but didnt have to)
by Brooke A. Wharton
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-MM
