The Best Screenwriting Book Ever Published?

One of the best screenwriting book ever published is from Robert Mckee.

Here’s a brief bio:

Robert McKee, born 1941, is a creative writing instructor who is widely known for his popular “Story Seminar”, which he developed when he was a professor at the University of Southern California. McKee is the author of a “screenwriters’ bible” called Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting.  Many of Hollywood’s active screenwriters claim him as an inspiration. Rather than simply handling “mechanical” aspects of fiction technique such as plot or dialogue taken individually, McKee examines the narrative structure of a work and what makes the story compelling or not. This could work equally as well as an analysis of any other genre or form of narrative, whether in film script or any other form, and could also encompass nonfiction works as long as they attempt to “tell a story”.

Check out this video where Robert McKee chats about around from film script writing, screenwriting structure and the art of storytelling.

This video is a little over an hour long but an hour well spent if you want to learn valuable insights regarding script writing, story and writing in general.