Advanced Screenwriting, written by one of today's most active and respected screenwriting gurus, is a collection of meditations on fine-tuning the script.

Among the many subjects it discusses: working with non-traditional forms, maintaining a consistent and ongoing storyline, developing a personal cinematic style, finding a script's audience, keeping an audience's attention, developing subtexts, utilizing psychology and philosophy, transforming characters, reflecting real-life patterns, creating realism through accurate detail, polishing scenes, creating memorable dialogue; and much more.