I have been reading a few blogs lately and found some useful tips about scenes - get in and out quick, a character will end the scene in a different mood than he/she begun etc. Is there a decent how to book with tips/rules like these available? Or any book you found useful?
I was reading the bible till someone told me he dies in the end, ruined the whole f**king thing!
Adventures in the screen trade, the Hero's journey, The Comic Toolbox... Robert McKees STORY if not a jolly read has a lot of good stuff in it allegedly.
The only book on comedy writing I've ever read is 'Writing comedy for television' by Brian Cooke - a writer from the 'golden age' of sitcom.
It also has advice on writing sketches - or as he calls them - 'quickies'.
The book is slightly marred by the fact that Cooke worked in independent television rather than at the BBC but you would have to be a successful writer or an idiot to get nothing out of it.
The Comic Toolbox and Save The Cat is the best I've read.
Quote: Teddy Paddalack @ November 1 2012, 8:16 AM GMTI was reading the bible till someone told me he dies in the end, ruined the whole f**king thing!
Keep reading. There's a twist coming that you're clearly not expecting.
Quote: Teddy Paddalack @ November 1 2012, 8:16 AM GMTI was reading the bible till someone told me he dies in the end, ruined the whole f**king thing!
That's the gospels not the bible, you twat.