Introduction I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning. --Peter De Vries This book is designed to be useful to three main categories of readers: 1. The student or amateur who wants to break into one or more of these fields. 2. The writing professional working in another field who wants to move into one of these fields (for example, the TV writer who wants to write games, or the book writer who wants to write animation). 3. The nonwriter professional who works in a related area of these fields and wants to move into writing (for example, an animator who wants to turn scriptwriter, or a game tester who wants to write game stories). Think of this as your nuts-and-bolts manual for what a writer needs to know to create scripts