Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting

This book by Syd Field came up once on Tim Ferriss in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Frank Miller. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.

One of the seminal and much respected texts in the field of screenwriting by one of the greats. Screenplay has been revised and updated many times and it remains a number one bestseller on Amazon in 2016, years after it was first published. The book contains guidelines to make film-writing accessible to novices and to help practiced writers improve their scripts. Syd Field pinpoints elements essential to a screenplay and provides a step-by-step, comprehensive technique for writing a successful script.