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Screenwriting - Spiritual/Theology

Screenwriting Books

Making A Good Script Great
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, this book will articulate the skills you know intuitively. And if you're currently stuck on a rewrite, this book will help you analyze and solve the problems and get your script back "on track."

"I found MAKING A GOOD SCRIPT GREAT so helpful, specifically your section on the Central Question and on creating scene sequences. I've used those concepts on all my films starting with APOLLO 13."

Ron Howard, Academy Award winning
director of A BEAUTIFUL MIND

"It's as clean as the snap in the back of your throat when you take a swig of ginger ale. As concise as ELEMENTS OF STYLE by Strunk and White."

Jon Cohen, writer,
MINORITY REPORT

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Creating Unforgettable Characters
This book covers everything from doing the necessary research and developing the backstory and character psychology to avoiding stereotypes and working through character blocks. Throughout are interviews with many of today's top writers for film, television, and advertising as well as novelists and playwrights.

"A fascinating collection of ideas and insights. I think anyone writing for the screen would benefit from reflecting on this material."

Ron Bass, writer,
RAIN MAN, MY BEST FRIEND'S
WEDDING, and STEPMOM

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The Art of Adaptation:
Turning Fact and Fiction into Film
A comprehensive handbook for screenwriters, producers, and directors who want to successfully transform factual or fictional material into film. Seger tells how to analyze source material to understand why some of it resists adapting. She then gives practical methods for translating story, characters, themes, and style into film. A final section details essential information on how to option material and how to protect one's self legally.

"Should be required reading for anyone interested in adapting other material for the screen. Clear, thorough, and extremely helpful."

Richard Zanuck, producer,
DRIVING MISS DAISY, JAWS

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From Script to Screen:
The Collaborative Art of Filmmaking
by Linda Seger and Edward Jay Whetmore
What goes into the making of Hollywood's greatest motion pictures ? Find out about the perilous journey from script to screen. Along the way you'll meet the industry's leading writers, directors, producers, actors, editors, composers, and others behind the scenes. From their unique vantage points, personalities as diverse as Oliver Stone and Robin Williams reveal the alchemy they use to bring great stories to life. What's more, From Script to Screen is as provocative as the films it investigates.

"Lively and well writen, it's a unique resource for film professionals and movie buffs alike."

Kathleen Kennedy, producer,
E.T., JURASSIC PARK

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When Women Call the Shots
When Women Call the Shots is 75 percent focused on Hollywood and 25 percent focused on the rest of the world. The book is divided into six sections discussing the history of women in film, how women influence the business, what women can bring to the storytelling process, how they create characters, sex, love and romance and finally, a social and global perspective.

"This is an exceptionally well-organized, broadly stimulating discussion of a topic that might interest almost everyone."

Library Journal

"A wonderfully comprehensive, in-depth examination of women in our business."

Denise Di NOvi, producer,
BATMAN, BATMAN RETURNS,
and LITTLE WOMEN

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Making A Good Writer Great
In any creative endeavor, craft by itself is simply not enough. Designed not just to awaken creativity, but to teach the writer the process of being creative within the context of screenwriting, this new, unique addition to Linda Seger's highly popular collection of books combines the tools necessary to learn how to think and write more creatively with indispensable screenwriting know-how. Making a Good Writer Great does just what its title professes -- provides writers with the knowledge necessary to write at the highest artistic level.

"As much a course in creativity as a book on craft, Linda Seger's MAKING A GOOD WRITER GREAT is both nurturing and provocative, Holistic and catalytic, jammed with exercises and thought provoking queries, it addresses the artist as well as the art. Any writer, but especially screenwriters, will be strengthened by its practical wisdom."

Julia Cameraon, author of
THE ARTISTS' WAY

"A bold new approach to screenwriting. Dr. Seger humanizes the process by acknowledging the role that psychology, our personal stories, and our personal spirituality play in our creative work."

Linda Woolverton, writer,
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.

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Advanced Screenwriting
Raising Your Script to the Academy Award Level
This book is about details and the intricate, complex elements that make it possible for films like The Hours to become great films. It's about creating a script that moves well, with a focused, original story that leaps off the page and gives a great actor something to work with. It's also about creating stories that touch and intrigue an audience and perhaps transform their lives in the process.

"Once again, Linda Seger has peeled back the veils and revealed the essential truths of great screenwriting, making the complex comprehensible. This book is loaded with tons of useful analysis and screenwriting craft that is essential for any screenwriter; beginner or advanced."

Jack Epps, screenwriter,
TOP GUN, DICK TRACY

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And the Best Screenplay Goes To...
(To be published in February, 2008) Learning from the Academy Award^® winning scripts: Sideways, Shakespeare In Love, Crash.

Linda Seger / Script Consultant 4705 Hagerman Avenue, Cascade, Colorado 80809
(Colorado) phone: (719) 684-0405/0406 fax: (719) 684-0407
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