HOW TO WRITE A SCARY MOVIE! Yes— the whole thing. The complete haunted kit and rotting kaboodle. (I don’t know what a kaboodle is, or if they rot, but you get the point.) As I have dropped little bits of horror specific screenplay advice, a lot of people (at least 4) have suggested I write a book on the topic… so I have!
THE SCARY MOVIE WRITER’S GUIDE is a 100+ page step by step workbook that guides you to plan, plot, and write your own horror screenplay. It takes you through the entire process, starting with generating ideas and forming work habits, all the way through the process of making a detailed outline. Cook up plots, find themes, play with subgenres, decide on point of view and style, cook up characters and monsters— it’s called a WORK book for a reason...
There are prompts, tests, charts, log forms, and DOZENS of worksheets to fill out in between breakdowns of everything that goes into constructing a horror movie from scratch. The book is expertly laid out and full of spooky illustrations to keep you inspired while you read. It’s designed to be written in, photocopied, folded up, and have pages ripped out— whatever it takes to get your ideas out of your head and into a script.
The book is available RIGHT NOW! See— there’s a button and everything!
I still plan to continue to pot regular advice for no cost on this platform, so this wasn’t all. marketing scheme. My goal here was to offer up something ACTIONABLE. In this era, information is no longer a premium. We can look up how to do pretty much anything online. While there is no shortage on information in this book, the real goal was to provide a space to literally write-in your own thoughts and then build a roadmap that you can use to craft a screenplay.
Here’s some page examples to show you what I mean:
If this seems like your jam, the book is available now for $28.95.