D B Gilles: 7 books

Writer’s Rehab is filled with tough love and unvarnished truths about the business of writing. D.B. Gilles gobsmacks both experienced and aspiring writers past self-delusion and towards productivity. "D.B. Gilles has discovered the eerie correspondences among the 12 stages of the Hero's...

Grave robbers looking for jewels while breaking into mausoleums in a 200-year-old cemetery stumble onto the remains of a body that shouldn’t be there: a teenaged girl. They take off, leaving the door to the mausoleum open. The cemetery night watchman finds the body and calls the police...

Valerie needs to save her rapidly shrinking book club. So when one member recruits a flamboyant, mysterious local waitress named Cinnamon, it’s a mixed blessing. Valerie knows she needs more members, but Cinnamon rubs her the wrong way. And when she starts proposing changes to Valerie’s...

The Portable Film School is a private tutorial from an instructor at one of the nation's most prestigious film schools. D.B. Gilles explains the fundamental skills and techniques of screenwriting and making a short film arming you with the two calling cards you'll need to break into Hollywood – without having spent the tuition or a minute in a classroom.

In this hilarious unauthorized, autobiographical parody, Ann Coulter has been approached to be the Vice Presidential candidate in 2016, so she is coming out with a tell-all book.  She will reveal who she is, who she was and who she hopes to be before the left wing media and the Democratic spin...

10-year-old Dalton Hillyer’s father is found dead at the foot of Cleopatra’s Needle, the Egyptian obelisk in New York City’s Central Park. He’s wearing late 19th century clothes, carrying 19th century French francs. In his pocket is a receipt from a renowned Paris restaurant...

劇本要好看、故事要動人，不能光靠靈感和想像！ 你更需要寫，一下筆就能寫，一寫就能賣的關鍵寫作技巧！ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 《為什麼你的故事被打Ｘ》熱銷萬本新裝上市 現在開始，搶救你的爛故事、丟掉你的爛劇本！   寫劇本不只是在說故事，也在賣故事！ 那麼，好故事怎麼寫？ ◎一開始就要奪眼球 　‧故事要開始的正是時候，別拖泥帶水 　‧一定要有事情發生，讓故事往前推進 　‧即使事實不有趣，也要記得加以虛構 ◎製造戲劇張力 ‧來個爆發轉折點，讓戲劇化情節持續推展 ‧最有意思的經歷，都是那些你想忘記的事 ‧不一定要攸關生死才會有驚喜 ◎主角必須很有事 ‧苦頭越多，越能引起觀眾共鳴 ‧麻煩越多，情節越好看 ‧障礙越多，對觀眾來說越精彩 ◎衝突是對話的靈魂所在 ‧對白必須要揭露角色特質 ‧一定要製造衝突與爭吵 ‧不必要的絕不多說 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 劇本是否有趣吸引人，全在於故事是否夠起伏跌宕！ 你沒日沒夜、絞盡腦汁，好不容易完成一個故事，信心滿滿丟出你的劇本，結果卻總是「這個故事不有趣」、「無聊沒有梗」、「引不起共鳴」……而你也不知道這本「曠世巨作」出了什麼問題？ 本書作者以身為劇本諮詢顧問超過20年的經驗，告訴你43個連好萊塢編劇都買單的說故事關鍵技巧，從劇情架構、情節鋪陳、角色塑造、對白設定……一步步讓你丟掉爛劇本，最終成為電影公司搶拍，觀眾搶看的搶手貨。 【前言】這本書對於你的意義 【自序】你需要的不只是好劇本 本書將如何幫助你 PART...