Want Do Get: A Screenwriters Manual

Want Do Get is a comprehensive guide to writing better screenplays. It contains many useful tools and techniques that will help any writer to produce more entertaining and well-structured scripts. Readers will also find it a useful guide for other types of storytelling, such as plays and novels.

The book has been designed to maximise readability, with chapters split into short sections, including helpful illustrations, and a sans serif font.

Merlin Goldman has been writing stories for over a decade. Some of these have become plays (collected in the anthology Pieces), poems (Voices Along the Road), and novels (The Carpenter and The Goat Herder). A graduate of LSF’s Talent Campus programme, he has written, produced, or directed over half a dozen short films.