Drama and Screenplays
The fundamentals of dramatic writing and writing screenplays can be learned by anyone. There is a basic structure that all dramatic works and all screenplays have. There are excellent courses and books that can teach you, in exact detail, what the steps in the dramatic process look like. Quite possibly the best book on dramatic writing ever … Keep Reading → written was created over 2000 years ago. Poetics by Aristotle should be read by every aspiring writer. Another excellent book is The Art of Dramatic Writing by Lajos Egri. There are also some outstanding books that offer instruction on the specifics of writing screenplays. Books by Syd Field and Robert McKee are the leading works in this area. For the technically oriented there are a variety of software products that can help to structure all of your dramatic writing and screenplay projects. Dramatica Pro and Final Draft are two examples.
