Table of Contents

• About the author
• Publisher's acknowledgements
• Author's acknowledgements
• Part 1 The beginning
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Clunk, click, every trip
• Part 2 Structure
• 3 The order of events
• 4 I've been waiting for a sign
• 5 Keeping it together
• 6 Death by PowerPoint: an antidote
• Part 3 Style
• 7 Doing what comes naturally
• 8 Word perfect
• 9 One thing leads to another
• 10 What not to write
• 11 Mythbusting
• 12 Sound advice
• Part 4 Magic
• 13 A spoonful of sugar
• 14 Painting pictures
• 15 More sound advice
• 16 Screenwriting
• 17 And finally ...
• Part 5 The end
• 18 It ain't over till it's over
• 19 The end is nigh