Screenwriter's Compass

There will be a book signing and discussion for Screenwriter’s Compass at the Columbia University Bookstore on Tuesday April 3 at 6pm.

Come. Bring a friend. Buy a book.

Excerpt on indieWire

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Screenwriter’s Compass

Screenwriter’s Compass is not simply another How-To guide to screenwriting.  It is a a how-to-think book, an elegant presentation of fundamental concepts of dramatic construction.  In Screenwriter’s Compass, Guy Gallo shows aspiring and professional screenwriters how event, plot, and structure are grounded in the vivid imagining and presentation of character.  He gives you methods to more easily navigate the sometimes chaotic realm of story.  If the screenplay is a landscape, Screenwriter’s Compass offers writers a collection of tools to make them better cartographers. His message to screenwriters: your story is more than a set of plot points! Screenwriters will see that narrative grows out of behavior, and will stop pushing and pummeling their characters to fit the outline. With Gallo’s guidance, screenwriters will learn how to root their funniest prose and catchiest dialogue in character and voice; to create screenplays that seduce the reader, make them lean forward, and, most importantly, allow them to identify with character.