Screenwriting From The Heart
by James Edward Ryan
Category: Performing Arts

Screenwriting from the Heart is James Ryan's answer to today's formulaic, by-the-numbers Hollywood films. As a successful screenwriter and teacher, Ryan has distilled the content of his popular workshops into this indispensable guide to developing dramatic and passionate screenplays based on compelling characters. Maintaining that writing by formula results in contrived and untrue screenplays, Ryan's technique is based on the premise that our best work comes from the heart--from the inside out. This book shows screenwriters how to free up the unconscious imagination in order to use what they excavate from deep within themselves to craft a screenplay.