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Making a Good Script Great: Revised & Expanded PDF

351 Pages·2010·1.83 MB·English
by  Seger
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“Rx for ailing screenwriters: Read this tonight and call me in the morning.” — Tony Bill, Actor-Director-Producer, Producer of The Sting “Linda Seger has written quite simply the most brilliant and useful book on screenwriting that I have ever seen.” —William Kelley, Academy Award- winning Co-Writer, Witness “Linda Seger’s updated Making a Good Script Great is an invaluable tool for beginning writers, as well as a go-to manual for seasoned professionals. I plan to keep it very close at hand.” —Fern Field, Producer, Monk “The first edition of Making a Good Script Great is sufficiently timeless, but perfectionist Dr. Linda Seger makes “great” “greater” and even sensational in this edition.” —Dr. Lew Hunter, Writer-Producer and Screenwriting Faculty Chair Emeritus, UCLA “Making a Good Script Great clarified for me what a great screenplay should be. After I read it…I was ready to go. Like a great script, it is clear, concise, has great dialog, and is a compelling read. In a crowded market, this one is essential.” —David Gleeson, Writer-Director, Cowboys & Angels and The Front Line “A must-read for every writer, beginning or professional.” —Barbara Corday, Co-Creator, Cagney & Lacey “If they handed out Olympic medals for books on screenwriting, Linda Seger would take gold every time. As if her classic, pioneering text Making a Good Script Great wasn’t already good enough, she’s written a new edition and in so doing has, predictably, brought us another winner. As perceptive, lucid, reader- friendly and eminently practical as all her writing, the third edition of this old friend arrives refreshed, invigorated and bang up-to-date with a wealth of examples from contemporary films and a range of new material… If you’ve read previous editions you’ll find the new spin Seger achieves thought-provoking and inspiring… If you’ve never read Making a Good Script Great, you have a great experience ahead. You’ll find a resource you’ll return to across your entire career. When in doubt, see what Seger has to say. Compulsory reading for novice and veteran alike.” —Linda Aronson, Author, Screenwriting Updated and The Twenty-First Century Screenplay “There have been many books on writing, but none that have the depth and accessibility of Linda Seger’s. It’s a marvelous book for producers and executives as well as writers.” —Renee Valente, Producer, Blind Ambition and Love Thy Neighbor “An invaluable tool for the working writer.” — Richard Walter, Screenwriting Faculty Chair, UCLA “Making a Good Script Great is the quintessential go-to book on rewriting your screenplay. Though not limited to just the rewrite process, it also teaches how to organize yourself prior to putting pen to paper and offers practical hands-on tools to identify problem areas once your screenplay is written. We recommend it to all our students and feel it is the right game plan for writers, executives, and producers to tackle the ever elusive writing process.” —Rona Edwards and Monika Skerbelis, Authors, I Liked It, Didn’t Love It: Screenplay Development from the Inside Out “A classic that guides you through the specifics of writing, revising, and polishing your draft into a commercially viable project. Sensible, thorough, and empowering!” —Dave Trottier, Author, The Screenwriter’s Bible “Making a Good Script Great is the gold standard of screenwriting books, a must-have … Linda Seger has surpassed her own standard with this latest edition that includes not only the basics, which she covers so well, but also new information and examples. Use it and you can raise the standards of your script and go for the gold.” —Pamela Jaye Smith Power of the Dark Side, Inner Drives “Whether you’re on your first script or your tenth one, screenwriting can be such a bumpy and solitary road. But the journey certainly can be made much smoother with the latest edition of Making a Good Script Great.” —Kathie Fong Yoneda, Author, The Script-Selling Game “MGSG is one of those books that does what it says—it enables any writer to improve. Linda makes the difficult seem achievable.” —Julian Friedmann, Literary Agent and Editor of TwelvePoint.com (formerly ScriptWriter magazine) Other books by Linda Seger: Creating Unforgettable Characters The Art of Adaptation: Turning Fact and Fiction into Film From Script to Screen: The Collaborative Art of Filmmaking (coauthored with Edward Jay Whetmore) When Women Call the Shots: The Developing Power and Influence of Women in Television and Film Making a Good Writer Great: A Creativity Workbook for Screenwriters Advanced Screenwriting: Raising Your Script to the Academy Award Level And the Best Screenplay Goes to ... Learning from the Winners: Sideways, Shakespeare in Love, Crash Copyright © 2010 by Linda Seger All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without permission from the publisher. Acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reproduce the material indicated: MCA Publishing Rights for excerpts from Back to the Future, copyright © Universal Pictures, a division of Universal City Studios, Inc., courtesy of MCA Publishing Rights, a division of MCA, Inc.; MCA Publishing Rights and Peter Benchley for excerpts from Jaws, copyright © Universal Pictures, a division of Universal City Studios, Inc., courtesy of MCA Publishing Rights, a division of MCA, Inc.; Paramount Pictures excerpts from Witness copyright © Paramount Pictures; Columbia Pictures, Don McGuire, Larry Gelbart, and Murray Schisgal for excerpts from Tootsie. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Seger, Linda. Making a good script great / Linda Seger. -- 3rd ed. p. cm. “1st Silman-James ed.”--T.p. verso. Includes index. ISBN 978-1-935247-01-2 (alk. paper) 1. Motion picture authorship. I. Title. PN1996.S384 2010 808.2’3--dc22 2009051981 Cover design by Arthead, adapted from first edition cover design by Hal Siegel. Printed and bound in the United States of America Silman-James Press 1181 Angelo Drive Beverly Hills, CA 90210

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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 ti
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