Inside Story The Power of the Transformational Arc The Secret to Crafting Extraordinary Screenplays edition by Dara Marks Arts Photography eBooks
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What is the secret to writing a great screenplay?
Whether you’re a beginning screenwriter or an A-list Academy Award winner, all writers struggle with the same thing to get to the great script inside.
Step by step, Inside Story guides you through an extraordinary new process that helps identify your thematic intention—what your story is really about—and teaches you how to turn that intention into the driving force behind all your creative choices. The result is a profound relationship between the movement of the plot and the internal development of character, which is the foundation for the transformational arc. The transformational arc is the deeper line of structure found inside the story. Knowing how to work with the arc enhances your ability to
•Express your unique point of view
•Give meaning and urgency to the line of action
•Infuse your characters with richness, subtlety, and surprise
•Develop a powerful emotional undercurrent
•Make your stories stand out and get attention
Inside Story delivers what the name implies it’s the real inside scoop on how to write a great screenplay with depth, dimension, and substance. It is a must-have book for any serious screenwriter, playwright, or novelist.
Inside Story The Power of the Transformational Arc The Secret to Crafting Extraordinary Screenplays edition by Dara Marks Arts Photography eBooks
Dara Marks is a highly regarded “script doctor”—for the uninitiated that means someone hired to make a mediocre movie or TV script better. She also has a doctorate in mythological studies, which gives her as you might imagine a long-horizon perspective on the art of storytelling. In Inside Story: The Power of the Transformational Arc she marries her two areas of expertise to offer a step-by-step guide to producing a script that holds the potential for a moviegoing experience that will stay with viewers long after the movie ends.I am not a screenwriter or even an aspiring one, but this book is rich in useful advice for novelists like me, or in fact for anyone telling a story. This is no “screenwriting made easy” guide, with outdated tips about margin size, typefaces, and what kind of brackets to use around stage directions. Marks’s focus is lasered in on how to shape a story—what you tell at which stage, how to create characters that viewers can attach to, how to develop and sustain a strong theme, in short how to make a story meaningful, no matter what genre you are writing in. As she amply demonstrates, her advice works equally well for action-adventure stories as for romantic comedies, thrillers, or tragedies.
To do this she starts each chapter with a generalized concept, such as building a character or identifying your underlying theme, and after discussing the concept in broad terms, she gives examples from well-known films. The way she analyzes movies most people will recognize is one of the most enlightening and valuable aspects of this book: she explains why a particular story works and why it doesn’t, where the author is doing something right and where he or she has gone astray. Later in the book she takes the reader through the arc of a story step by step, revealing what’s important at each stage—the concept-establishing first act, the busy and eventful second act, and the cathartic and transformative third. Her advice moves seamlessly from the general to the particular and back to the general, illuminating both the mechanics and the uniqueness of any story. It’s not just a how-to, but a WHY-to.
I found this book tremendously valuable in its approach, full of both thought-provoking and actionable advice. I recommend it for anyone who tells stories, regardless of your genre or medium.
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Inside Story The Power of the Transformational Arc The Secret to Crafting Extraordinary Screenplays edition by Dara Marks Arts Photography eBooks Reviews
TONS of other screenwriting books whether they be for character, structure, or plot more or less have the same info, only tell you what your movie should have and not how to find it. This book focuses on the things all books skip, Theme and the Character Arc and the connection between character, theme and plot and how they all Serve each other and how one idea leads you to the next. Dara Marks shows you how to make your film give the audience that feeling that you want to change your life when you walk out of the theater. This book will not only teach you how to develop emotional and fulfillment in your stories but it will teach you about yourself and your personal feeling and how to use them to answer any story question you have and help you move past writers block.
This is important to read for screenwriters with some experience, after reading the other essential books like Save the Cat, Story, and others. While those are invaluable to learn good story structure, this book by Dara Marks is essential for theme and character. It shows you that missing but crucial element for making a story resonate.
Even while giving your story idea, regardless of the medium, a light outline, the better you know not only the subject of your theme, but the message through the theme (she explains this beautifully in the book), the stronger the message you can convey in your story, and the more powerful your character arc.
If there is a first and last book to read about writing a story, this is it. EVERYTHING else is filler, compared to this (no disrespect to other highly renowned authors, lol).
If you want to make your readers and/or viewers CARE about your character, their journey, your STORY, read this book.
Then read it a few more times. You'll be glad you did.
Most writing books deal with structure and plot. Dara Marks dared to write about theme. She doesn't necessarily call it that way, but yes, it's theme, the heart of a story. This book is for advanced writers. If you've completed a novel or screenplay and have received critique already, this text will come in very handy to rewrite your story.
This book was recommended to me by a writer friend of mine and I loved it. It's clear, simple and direct. It got my wheels turning and with every chapter, I would eagerly make changes to my script that were both thoughtful and powerful. Grateful for the guidance and insight this book gave me.
If you are drawn to write but what you think your story is about isn't what ends up on the page, you may need this book. Marks reveals how we can be more purposeful in our writing without resorting to a formula. I can't recommend this book highly enough.
I saw a tweet about this book and decided to give it a try; great decision! Well written, clear, concise, and full of contemporary examples, it is a book that should be on every writer's bookshelf, regardless of medium. If you read this book, your writing will be better for it! Highly recommended!
Dara Marks is a highly regarded “script doctor”—for the uninitiated that means someone hired to make a mediocre movie or TV script better. She also has a doctorate in mythological studies, which gives her as you might imagine a long-horizon perspective on the art of storytelling. In Inside Story The Power of the Transformational Arc she marries her two areas of expertise to offer a step-by-step guide to producing a script that holds the potential for a moviegoing experience that will stay with viewers long after the movie ends.
I am not a screenwriter or even an aspiring one, but this book is rich in useful advice for novelists like me, or in fact for anyone telling a story. This is no “screenwriting made easy” guide, with outdated tips about margin size, typefaces, and what kind of brackets to use around stage directions. Marks’s focus is lasered in on how to shape a story—what you tell at which stage, how to create characters that viewers can attach to, how to develop and sustain a strong theme, in short how to make a story meaningful, no matter what genre you are writing in. As she amply demonstrates, her advice works equally well for action-adventure stories as for romantic comedies, thrillers, or tragedies.
To do this she starts each chapter with a generalized concept, such as building a character or identifying your underlying theme, and after discussing the concept in broad terms, she gives examples from well-known films. The way she analyzes movies most people will recognize is one of the most enlightening and valuable aspects of this book she explains why a particular story works and why it doesn’t, where the author is doing something right and where he or she has gone astray. Later in the book she takes the reader through the arc of a story step by step, revealing what’s important at each stage—the concept-establishing first act, the busy and eventful second act, and the cathartic and transformative third. Her advice moves seamlessly from the general to the particular and back to the general, illuminating both the mechanics and the uniqueness of any story. It’s not just a how-to, but a WHY-to.
I found this book tremendously valuable in its approach, full of both thought-provoking and actionable advice. I recommend it for anyone who tells stories, regardless of your genre or medium.
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