Making a good script great - Softcover

Seger, Linda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0396089534 ISBN 13: 9780396089537

Publisher: Dodd, Mead, 1987

Synopsis

Making a good script great is more than just a matter of putting a good idea on paper. It requires the working and reworking of that idea. This book takes you through the whole screenwriting process - from initial concept through final rewrite - providing specific methods that will help you craft tighter, stronger, and more saleable scripts. While retaining the invaluable insights that placed its first two editions among the all - time most popular screenwriting books, this expanded, revised, and updated third edition adds rich and important new material on dialogue, cinematic images, and point of view, as well as an interview with screenwriter Paul Haggis. If you are writing your first script, this book will help develop your skills for telling a compelling and dramatic story. If you are a veteran screenwriter, it will help you articulate the skills you know intuitively. And if you are currently stuck on a rewrite, this book will help you analyse and solve your script's problems and get it back on track.

About this title

About the Author:

Linda Seger runs a leading film script consultancy, and is author of ten books. She is an international authority on screenwriting. She has a number of earned degrees and a doctorate in Drama and Theology. A practicing Quaker, she lives in Colorado Springs.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dodd, Mead
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0396089534
• ISBN 13: 9780396089537
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 204