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Storytelling

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Woops, look like Mr. "I'm not a college bound high school senior" should've done a little more research into his purchase. Actually, if he had READ the book instead of passing on, he might've gotten a better lesson in screenwriting than any Syd Field or Michael Hague book can provide. If you want to write screenplays, read screenplays; and you can't go wrong with Todd Solondz if you want guidance in excellent character development.

This is from the back cover, "[Todd Solodnz] offers two separate stories ('Fiction' and 'Non-Fiction') that unfold amid the sadly comical terrain of college and high school. In the first, a young female student has a stranger-than-fiction sexual encounter with her creative writing tutor. In the second, a struggling documentarian sets out to faithfully record the life and thoughts of an ordinary American adolescent, but finds himself irresistibly drawn to the exploitative possibilities of the material."

If this description had been available to me I would have never purchased the book. The only reason I did buy the book was because it appeared when doing a search for screenwriting books. I'll pass judgment on the readability of the book since I'm am not in the target audience of high school seniors who are college bound.

How anyone can attempt to compare this book to any of the vast number of screenwriting books available is beyond imagination. Maybe they haven't read Robert McKee's "Story," or Laos Egri's "The Art of Dramatic Writing." If I can save one person from wasting their money the effort will have been worth it.