Screenwriting guru
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A screenwriting guru is a screenwriter, screenwriting teacher or book author who has written about the craft of screenwriting. The term "guru" is attached to their name because of their extensive knowledge of the form and structure of conventional screenplays, as well as to their ability to successfully teach this knowledge to novice "would-be" writers. Among the most well known are:
- Syd Field -- The Foundations of Screenwriting, Screenplay, The Screenwriter's Handbook, Four Screenplays
- Robert McKee -- STORY (book and seminar)
- Christopher Vogler -- The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure For Writers
- William Goldman -- Adventures in the Screen Trade, Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Trade
- David Trottier -- The Screenwriter's Bible
- Linda Seger -- Making a Good Script Great
- Michael Hauge -- Writing Screenplays That Sell
- John Truby -- The Anatomy of Story, Great Screenwriting (DVD Video / MP3 Audio Seminar Course), Blockbuster (Story Software)
- Jeff Bollow -- FAST Screenplay (online system)
- Yves Lavandier -- Writing Drama
- Jeffrey Alan Schechter -- TotallyWrite (software and seminars)
- Marilyn Horowitz -- "How to Write a Screenplay in 10 Weeks" & "The Four Magic Questions of Screenwriting" (books and seminars)
- Blake Snyder -- "Save the Cat" (book and seminars)
- Billy Marshall Stoneking -- currently full-time lecturer in screenwriting, the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, author of "On Becoming a Medium - The Storyteller, The Characters, the Audience and the Tribe".
- William C. Martell -- "The Secrets of Action Screenwriting", (17 Blue-Books & Audio Cources)
- Lajos Egri -- "The Art of Dramatic Writing" (The Father of Modern Screenwriting Gurus)
- Joseph Campbell -- "The Hero With A Thousand Faces" (The Father of Modern Screenwriting Gurus)
- Aristotle -- "Poetics" (The Great Grand-Daddy of Modern Screenwriting Gurus)
- Konstantin Stanislavski -- "An Actor Prepares", "Building A Character", "Creating A Role" (The Father of Actors, Stars, Screenwriters, Directors and Acting - Writing Gurus / Teachers)
An academic overview and comparative summary of the work of almost all of the above Screenwriting gurus was published free, online by Joe Velikovsky in 2003.
