Genre Essentials: Action — 10 Action Books [Non-Fiction] You Must Cover

When you are writing an original screenplay within a specific genre, you really should know the heart, soul and guts of that genre. This will inform every step of your creative and writing process: concept, character development, brainstorming, plotting, tone, style, atmosphere, voice, pace, and so on. There are certain attributes common to each genre, and you need to know as much about them as possible, if you want to follow, reverse or break those conventions.

Obviously you can’t read and watch everything, but isn’t there a way to cover the essentials?

Which led me to a new GITS series: Genre Essentials.

This week: Action.

Today: 10 Action Books [Non-Fiction] You Must Cover.

Please post your suggestions in comments. Let’s do our best to generate quality suggestions for the other categories.

On Sunday, July 15, I will post the Genre Essentials: Action list.

To read your suggestions for 10 Action Movies You Must See, go here.

To read your suggestions for 10 Action Scripts You Must Analyze, go here.

To read your suggestions for 10 Action Books [Fiction] You Must Read, go here.

Next week: Comedy.

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