If you google "screenwriting gurus", you will come up with a list of names. If you drop those names into IMDB, you will find that only one (William Goldman) or two of the top ten have written scripts that were made into films that you have heard of or paid to see. Is this the ultimate case of easier...
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You're damned right!
Dan's right. And here's the theme music for that reality. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js3z-eBkbnk
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I'm with you Shelly. The only rule is there is no rule.
Talking about screenwriting guru that have actually written AND sold screenplays, there's also William C. Martell. More in the action genre but he did understood a thing or two about the forces in act...
Expand commentTalking about screenwriting guru that have actually written AND sold screenplays, there's also William C. Martell. More in the action genre but he did understood a thing or two about the forces in action to write commercially viable screenplays having sold a dozen of them... His books are now in a revised edition for Kindle and they've been endorsed by quite a bunch of names (like Roger Avary). But in defense of those who didn't, being new to the craft, I find McKee's Story to be an invaluable source of help that could potentially save me a lot of trials and errors by giving me some clear sign posts along the way. Great screenwriters may not be able to be great teachers in screenwriting and vice versa. Teaching is a different art altogether, and probably not a lesser one. Different strokes for different folks I guess.