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Dan O’Bannon’s Guide to Screenplay Structure by Dan O’Bannon
Handouts
Worksheet for Dan O’Bannon’s Conflict analysis
5-Way Plot Structure (A work in progress)
Books for Narrative Arc
Save the Cat by Blake Snyder
Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maas
Structuring Your Story by William C. Martell
Blockbuster Plots by Martha Alderson
Writing the Blockbuster by Albert Zuckerman
Story Engineering by Larry Brooks
Plot and Structure and Write Your Novel from the Middle by James Scott Bell
The Anatomy of Story by John Truby
Writing Screenplays that Sell by Michael Hauge
My Screenplay can Beat Up Your Screenplay by Jeffrey Schechter
The Writer’s Journey by Christopher Vogler (The Hero’s Journey)
Perfecting Plot by William Bernhardt (Briefer and more to the point version of the Hero’s Journey.)
From Girl to Goddess by Valerie Estelle Frankel (The Heroine’s Journey if you’re working with a female lead character.)
Hook Your Reader Workshop
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David Safford’s post on The Write Practice
Books
Story by Robert McKee
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