The Wall Will Tell You: The Forensics of Screenwriting

Like Eno & Schmidt's Oblique Strategies, but for screenwriting and not (entirely) oblique.

If you've read all the usual screenwriting books, you likely won't learn anything new. You will, however, be chafed that the authors of all those other books could scarcely manage to convey in a chapter what Fancher gets across in a single clean sentence. If you haven't read those books, you may not need to after this one.

It's not a lot of pages for the money, but seeing as Fancher is preaching the gospel of creative and linguistic distillation, that shouldn't come as any surprise. It is what it needs to be.