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Welcome to Syd Field‘s Screenplay (The Foundations of Screenwriting): The Sequel. Which is Not a Bad Thing at all. In fact, if you buy The Screenwriter’s Problem Solver, in my humble opinion, you don’t need to read Syd Field’s original…
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Scott Macaulay pays homage to Syd Field in Filmmaker Magazine. Field helped a lot of writers and that should be put in the spotlight: Remembering Syd Field, 1935-2013. More about Field? Check Best Screenwriting Books Ever: Syd Field’s SCREENPLAY and How to…
‘I don’t even really understand the second act,’ a filmmaker said to me just last week. He obviously hadn’t read Syd Field’s Screenplay, which is nothing if not about act structure: the first, second and third acts, but also the inciting…
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