Title: Best screenwriting book
Product review: Mark Evan Schwartz delivers the most compelling book on the craft by writing this as a screenplay. The rewards of this format are immediately clear, as this provides a constant framework to assess and reinforce good writing. Clever dialogue throughout makes it particularly enjoyable, and the winking self-referencing style of the hero (all the while breaking down the nuances of structure+character) gives it a style similar to Scott McCloud's landmark Understanding Comics. I'd love if the subtitle to this book were "From Hollywood to Hell (and Back, literally)" as readers actually take a writer's journey through Hades with an encouraging and then deceitful Virgil. It makes for a lot of fun with great moments to illustrate those all-important points. It's a perfect book for screenwriters, very practical.
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