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Authors: Linda Seger
ISBN-13: 9781935247012, ISBN-10: 1935247018
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Silman-James Press
Date Published: February 2010
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Linda Seger

Book 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.

Making a Good Script Great 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 salable 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're writing your first script, this book will help develop your skills for telling a compelling and dramatic story. If you're a veteran screenwriter, it will help you articulate the skills you know intuitively. And if you're currently stuck on a rewrite, this book will help you analyze and solve your script's problems and get it back on track.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Author's Preface
Introduction
Ch. 1Gathering Ideas3
Ch. 2The Three-Act Structure: Why You Need It and What to Do with It18
Ch. 3What Do Subplots Do?39
Ch. 4Act Two - How to Keep It Moving60
Ch. 5Creating the Scene74
Ch. 6Creating a Cohesive Script101
Ch. 7Making It Commercial117
Ch. 8Creating the Myth135
Ch. 9From Motivation to Goal: Finding the Character Spine149
Ch. 10Finding the Conflict165
Ch. 11Creating Dimensional Characters180
Ch. 12Character Functions199
Ch. 13On the Road to the Academy Award: A Case Study of the Rewrite of Witness215
Epilogue225
Index227

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