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The Book:
Make your writing more than a hobby. Make it your career.
In this sequel to Creative Writing Career: Becoming a Writer of Movies, Video Games, and Books, Stephan and Justin continue to bring you industry advice as well as interviews with screenwriters, video game writers, and authors of books and comics. These writers’ credits include such amazing titles as:
• Big Fish
• Batman
• Game of Thrones
• The Crow
• Divergent
• John Carter
• Brave
• Yesterday’s Gone
• Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
• Sandman Slim
• Jurassic World
(And many more!)
Table of Contents:
FOREWORD, BY ALLEN WARNER
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE: WRITING ADVICE
THE WRITING PROCESS
RULES OF WRITING
WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
NOTES ON NOTES
EPISODIC VERSUS ONE-SHOT
A CHOICE TO GO EPISODIC
PART TWO: WRITING BOOKS & COMICS
SELF-PUBLISHING OR TRADITIONAL
Interview: Ivan Brandon, Comics Writer of Terminator 3: Before the Rise and Viking
Interview: Jason Denzel, Mystic and Dragonmount.com
Interview: Claire Frank, Author of To Whatever End
Interview: Richard Kadrey, Author of Sandman Slim
Interview: Clay Moore, Hawaiian Dick to Superman Confidential
Interview: Sean Platt, Author of Fiction Unboxed and Yesterday’s Gone
Interview: John Shirley, Author and Screenwriter on City Come-A-Walkin’ and The Crow
Interview: Kevin Tumlinson, Wordslinger
Interview: Michael Uslan, Comic Writer and Film Producer of the Batman Franchise
PART THREE: VIDEO GAME WRITING
SO YOU THINK YOU CAN WRITE GAMES
Interview: Eric Bratcher, Game Journalist, Writer, and Freelancer
Interview: Deborah Chantson, Writer and Producer for Games
Interview: Katie Chironis, Nancy Drew: Sea of Darkness to Elsinore
Interview: Toiya Kristen Finley, Video Game Writer and GDC Presenter
Interview: Elizabeth LaPensée, Social Impact Games
Interview: Heidi McDonald, Romance in Games
Interview: Evan Skolnick, Video Game Writer and GDC Presenter
PART FOUR: SCREENWRITING
CONSIDERATIONS FOR SCREENWRITING
Interview: Mark Andrews, from Brave to John Carter of Mars
Interview: John August, Scriptnotes Podcast to The Nines, Go, and Big Fish
Interview: Joel Barish, Searching for Charlie Kaufman (Script Analyst)
Interview: Derek Connolly, Safety Not Guaranteed to Jurassic World
Interview: Anthony Derrico, Zero Gravity
Interview: Eve Edelson, Short Films and Festivals
Interview: Philip Eisner, Event Horizon
Interview: Shion Takeuchi, Pixar to Gravity Falls
Interview: Vanessa Taylor, Game of Thrones to Divergent
Interview: Boaz Yakin, Remember the Titans to Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
CONCLUSION
ANNEX A: RESOURCES
ANNEX B: INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR STEPHAN BUGAJ
ANNEX C: TOIYA KRISTEN FINLEY ARTICLE ON GDC NETWORKING
ABOUT THE AUTHORS