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The Screenwriter Within: New Strategies to Finish Your Screenplay & Get A Deal

At a Glance

  • A funny and honest approach to the various stages of writing a screenplay
  • Learn how to find your niche as a screenwriter
  • Includes game plans for what steps to take in your chosen writing career

In a funny and honest style, this book takes the beginning screenwriter through all the various stages of writing a screenplay. Using both pop culture references and one's own personal history, D.B. Gilles shows how big screen stories can come from the smaller events in everyday life.

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.

“The wisest, funniest, most grounded-in-reality screenwriting coach you can imagine… a lifetime’s worth of insider tips and common-sense strategies for mastering the screenwriting game.”
— Christopher Vogler, author, The Writer’s Journey; co-author, Memo from the Story Department

“My God, he’s done it! D.B. Gilles has topped himself… with the second edition of The Screenwriter Within. Better wisdom, laughs, and heart!”
—Dr. Lew Hunter, screenwriter, author of Lew Hunter’s Screenwriting 434, Chairman, UCLA Screenwriting Department

“…One of the best screenwriting books out there. It will inspire screenwriters at every level to learn how to turn their story into a sale.”
— Jen Grisanti, author, Story Line

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Meet the Author: D.B. Gilles

D.B. Gilles teaches screenwriting and comedy writing at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is the author of The Screenwriter Within and The Portable Film School. He is co-author of the George Bush parody W. The First Hundred Days. A White House Journal. He also wrote the play, Sparkling Object. 

D.B. is a script consultant and writing coach. Many of his students have gotten deals, sold scripts, had their work published and their TV scripts, sketches and screenplays produced. 

He writes the popular blog, Screenwriters Rehab: For Screenwriters Who Can’t Get Their Acts Toget...

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