This text is a structured guide to writing clean, crisp, clear scripts that will get read in the crowded marketplace and is for the novice screenwriter that provides exercises in writing as well as practical guides to analyzing major films.

3 one act plays about the theme of death: a farce, a war drama, a Buddhist comedy.

Frank avoids the draft during the Vietnam war by fleeing to Canada. Now he accepts a Presidential pardon to return home and make peace with his war hero father.

14 essays by award-winning playwright and novelist Charles Deemer.

A short memoir of the author's fascination and obsession with hyperdrama and the promise of an exciting new dramaturgy.

FAMILY VALUES: A dying patriarch struggles to accept his gay son and a changing world. THE OLD BEATNIK: A wealthy young woman meets the grandmother she thought was dead, and the old woman, an unreformed Beat poet, changes the woman forever. FAMILY CLIMATE: A teenager leads a youth movement to engage Native Americans in addressing climate change and is faced with the realities of Realpolitik and family values.