Viki King

Viki King's book provides the structure to a movie script that helps construct and organize the daunting writing task. Yet, like with "Save the Cat!" by Blake Snyder, these lessons do not have to land solely for a movie script. In fact, this is a good book on how to write anything and get through the internal and external troubles that might stop the process.

At times, this book might be a bit clunky in the writing, but it makes up for the insights (she calls them the "Inner Movie Axiom") show more that are general enough to speak to the character or the writer. Both of these figures make up the essence of who and what is being written about, thus making this process less scientific and more subjective.

This book is helpful to any writer of a script, novel, or dissertation (I wish I had this back then). There are great insights on the subject and demonstrating how they do something, which is what engaging writing should always be in dealing with the hero's journey and transformation. This can be a person, thing, or theory.

In the end, after all of the advice and contemplation, the key is, as King bookends with, "Write it the best way you can" (181). show less

This is a helpful book for beginning screenwriters. It will help force you to get through that first shitty attempt at a screenplay.

Don't hold too many hopes for it being the best script ever written though. A really great script is going to take more than twenty-one days to write. Period.

This book is how I got into writing. It changed my life!