Dan Decker's Anatomy Of A Screenplay is considered my many to be a breakthrough in Screenwriting instruction.  Dan's special Character driven process ignores PLOT and ridged Structure preferring to rely on the organic nature of the screenplay. "In dialog never ask a question, but if you do, never answer it, but if you do, LIE."--Dan Decker on Dialog

 Katherine Herber's:    Writing Scripts Hollywood Will Love: An Insider's Guide to Film & Television Scripts That Sell  (graphic not available) and Ronald Tobias's: The Insider's Guide to Writing for Screen and Television (seen to the left) both give unique perspectives on the business which will be valuable to you as you persue your writing career. (I have used both to my advantage)

Two very valuable reference books from Writer's Digest Books: Ben Bova's SPACE TRAVEL and Russell Bintliff's POLICE PROCEDURAL. They come in very handy when working on specific genre pieces. Sometimes I enjoy just sitting down to read them out of interst

The Screenwriter's Guide to Problem Solving: How to Recognize, Identify and Define Screenwriting Problems expertly illustrates what makes a screenplay work; how Quentin Tarantino makes action define character; how to overcome writer's block; and so much more. Hey its Syd Field-- what more can I say.

Screenwriting 101 is a guide to feature film writing, and it gives you the complete scoop on writing your script, marketing your script and seeing it through to production. Written by veteran script doctor and Hollywood insider Neil D. Hicks, it a candid and practical guide that absolutely no aspiring screenwriter should be without.

Time Travel explains science to help you make your fiction plausible. You'll leave for the future from a solid theoretical launching pad - and you'll see why the idea of traveling to the past violates no known laws of physics. Time Travel explores the theories of relativity, shows you the equations, probes the marvelous possibilities. It's filled with facts you can use in your fiction to cross the filmy borders and take readers along the corridors of time.