Alex Epstein

Crafty writing books

I'm a video game, film and TV writer. Before writing for a living, I worked as a development executive in movies. My books, Crafty Screenwriting: Writing Movies That Get Made and Crafty TV Writing: Thinking Inside the Box, grew out of two observations I made:

  • Most writers have no clue what producers are looking for. Their screenplays are doomed from the get-go.
  • What people think is wrong with a script is almost never what is actually wrong. You have to fix the underlying problem.

Crafty Screenwriting distills what I know about writing movies; Crafty TV Writing, my experience as a TV writer and show creator. Each book is about ten bucks at Amazon, and fits in your coat pocket!


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