Download or read book Stalking The Story written by Jay Douglas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working with the idea that writing a screenplay is a process of discovery, Stalking the Story uses the world of the detective, that prototypical master of observation, as the stage for storyplanning. The detective's whole reason for being is to discover bits of seemingly unrelated facts, observations, and hearsay and fashion them into a narrative that lays out 'whodunit'. Replace detective with writer and 'whodunit' with his story, and it's evident that the writer and the detective have more than a little incommon. In this clever and unique writing manual, Jay Douglas puts the reader in the position of a detective, searching for a missing story, then guides him-with the assistance of some classic TV sleuths - through the experience of finding that story, the story that is central to the screenplay he wants to write.