Kill the Dog: The First Book on Screenwriting to Tell You the Truth

Kill the Dog: The First Book on Screenwriting to Tell You the Truth

Kill the Dog is the first book on screenwriting written by an actual working professional screenwriter. Award-winning screenwriter Paul Guyot exposes the lies other screenwriting books have told, and …

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