Writing For Screens
Skills, Tools & Process for the Art Of Screenwriting
Published on 24. October 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
350 pages
979-8-9997876-0-6 (ISBN)
Description
A unique, practical and inspiring guide to creative storytelling and the process of writing, with a focus on screenwriting.
The book is organized into over 100 short, useful essays on specific topics -- like thinking in scenes, creating character arcs or finding your work rituals -- so that a writer who's learning, stuck or lost can go directly to the question or challenge they are facing.
Glenn Gers, draws upon 25 years experience as a screenwriter for Hollywood studios, TV networks and indie films (along with a dozen years before that, struggling to break in as a professional) to create a book full of skills, tools and insights.
Unlike most screenwriting books, "Writing For Screens" emphasizes the creative art, and the artist, over the business -- not only because creative mastery is required for that job, but because new technology is creating new possibilities and even new art forms. This book is designed to encourage each artist to make their own path in a changing world: to do what you can, with what you have, as who you are -- right now.
Based on a series of YouTube video classes with over a half-million views, "Writing For Screens" is honest, original, encouraging and useful.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
508 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-9997876-0-6 (9798999787606)
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In his 25-year screenwriting career, Glenn Gers worked in a baffling array of genres, including thriller (FRACTURE, starring Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling), caper-comedy (MAD MONEY, directed by Callie Khouri, starring Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, Ted Danson and Katie Holmes), family Christmas comedy (OFF SEASON), micro-budget horror (INNER DEMONS), sitcom (INSTANT MOM staff writer) and an audiobook spinoff from the series HOMELAND, read by Damien Lewis. Among his uncredited writing jobs were sci-fi-action and action-comedy rewrites, werewolf thrillers, Biblical and literary adaptations and rom-coms.He wrote and directed the indie films LIKE.SHARE.FOLLOW, (produced by Blumhouse) and DISFIGURED (a DIY micro-budget dramedy about an unexpected friendship between two women: one obese, the other anorexic.)Awards include an Emmy, a special award from the Women's Film Critic's Circle, multiple festival prizes, Writer's Guild and PRISM Award nominations and a Fellowship Grant in Screenwriting from the New York Foundation For The Arts. He has lectured or mentored at The Austin Screenwriting Conference, Full Sail University, Cinestory, The David Lynch MFA Program, and the AFI Directing Workshop for Women. His interview on the Film Courage Youtube channel is (for now) their most-viewed video, with over 4.5 million views.Now retired from screenwriting, he has been teaching on his YouTube channel, Writing For Screens. Aside from 50 10-minute lessons -- from which this book is adapted -- the channel features wide-ranging weekly livestream sessions and a video series in which he wrote a full pilot script live online, in 265 hour-long sessions.