Making a Good Script Great: Guide for Writing and Rewriting - Hardcover

Seger, Linda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0573606919 ISBN 13: 9780573606915

Publisher: Samuel French Trade US, 1990

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Samuel French Trade US
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0573606919
• ISBN 13: 9780573606915
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 220