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