How to Write a Movie Script With Characters That Don't Suck: 2 (Screenwriting Made Stupidly Easy) - Softcover

Rogan, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1970119012 ISBN 13: 9781970119015

Publisher: ScriptBully, 2018

Synopsis

"I can't believe how much money and time I've wasted on long and bulky screenwriting books with very little useful information. I highly recommend this book."
--Nick Masao - Writer/Director, Monrovia on Fire

Want to (finally) learn how to write a script with characters that capture the attention of managers, agents, and vain, self-centered actors?

Want to learn screenplay writing shortcuts and strategies to creating interesting, flawed -- though oddly-compelling -- characters without spending months and months of backstory creation and/or therapy?

Looking for a NO B.S. and super-simple Screenwriting 101 that will show you how to get inside the head, and the heart, of your characters to make plotting and writing almost effortless?

"If you've read tons of books on how to create great characters, you've wasted a lot of money and time, when all you needed was this one."
--R.L. Black - Author, Things Change: In a Flash

Well, in...How to Write a Script With Characters That Don't Suck - Screenplay Writing Made (Stupidly) Easy Book 2 you'll learn how to write a movie script with characters that literally scream off the page. (Okay, not literally. But you know what we mean.)

You'll learn such tasty screenwriting morsels as:

• "4 Steps to Kick-Ass Movie-Character Awesomeness" - Or this could be described as how to not make every stupid character-creation mistake I made when learning how to write a screenplay. (Don't do what I did!)
• "How to Create Main Characters People Give a Crap About" - In this chapter we'll go over simple strategies for ensuring reader empathy and fulfilling story development when it comes to your most important dramatis personae
• "The Ultimate Formula for Generating Great Movie Villains" - Duh, duh, duh! In this chapter we'll go over one of the most fun things you can do in script writing...write villains.
• "The Strange, Wonderful (and Often Terrifying) World of Supporting Characters" - Here's what you need to to know to make sure you keep your supporting characters in line, and doing their job to express theme and stakes.

And unlike some well-worn screenwriting manual on building characters from 1986, which tells you ya gotta know your hero's memories at 12-years-old, this book was written by a former screenplay reader and optioned screenwriter, Michael Rogan of ScriptBully magazine, who can give you advice from the modern screenwriting trenches for creating the best screenplay characters possible.

So, DOWNLOAD How to Write a Script With Characters That Don't Suck - Screenplay Writing Made (Stupidly) Easy Book 2 TODAY...

May not help get a five-picture deal at Paramount. But it can help you create characters that can help you tell one helluva story.

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About this title

About the Author

Michael Rogan is a former screenplay reader, optioned screenwriter, and editor of the top-ranked screenwriting inbox magazine, ScriptBully. He's also trying to rid the world of movies where trucks turn into robots.

Edition details

• Publisher: ScriptBully
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1970119012
• ISBN 13: 9781970119015
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 105