Making a Good Script Great: A Guide for Writing and Rewriting
by Linda Seger 
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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 salable scripts. While retaining the invaluable insights that placed its first 2 editions among the all-time most popular screenwriting books, this expanded, revised, and show more updated third edition adds rich and important new material on dialogue, cinematic images, and point of view. 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. -- Publisher description. show lessTags
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Un libro excelente no solo para escribir guiones, sino para construir cualquier historia. Aunque quizás es muy superficial en varios temas, las pinceladas que se dan (sobre todo en la construcción de personajes) son básicas pero esenciales.
Un libro excelente no solo para escribir guiones, sino para construir cualquier historia. Aunque quizás es muy superficial en varios temas, las pinceladas que se dan (sobre todo en la construcción de personajes) son básicas pero esenciales.
Good if you have a script already in draft form!
Best book about screeplays read, so far...
What makes her book stand out, is that it's not about the first draft, but rather about the rewrite process, a journey most writers shy away from...but with her sure fire map, this book just may make it easier for them. This book compliments the many books already written on screenwriting. I recommend it as one of the 10 books a filmmaker should have on their bookshelf. --Rona Edwards
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Linda Seger, Th.D., is uniquely qualified to write this book-a theologian, author and speaker with degrees in English, Drama and Theology. She comes from a long line of Lutherans who were theologians, ministers and missionaries. She's been a Quaker since 1970 and is a member of Colorado Springs Friends Meeting. She is married and lives in Cascade, show more Colorado. show less
Linda Seger is a LibraryThing Author, an author who lists their personal library on LibraryThing.
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- Canonical title
- Making a Good Script Great: A Guide for Writing and Rewriting
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 808.2'3-dc22
- Canonical LCC
- PN1996.S384
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