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Truby or McKee?

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Egidio

I just read save the cat! Brilliant, really helpful on so many levels...Now I just started Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting, but some of amazon reviews are making me changing my mind, they say go Truby instead...what shoud I do? Because I have The anatomy of story waiting in my kindle...what should I do? Do you have even another one to advice me, for screenwriting like save tha cat! maybe?!?!
 
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I would say that neither is 100% definitive, that you should read both; then identify and take what works for you from each, and apply it.

...and then 30 years from now, write a book on screenplays based on your experiences :)

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Will Vincent said:
No love for Syd Field? That's sad.
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Agreed. So many "how to be a screenwriter" books are simply twists on the same ideas with cute titles.

Having been there, sometimes I think the best way to teach yourself screenwriting is to read as many screenplays as possible (1st or original drafts) and make a film from one of *your* scripts.

My 2 centavos.
 
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