In this book, Linda Seger shows how to create strong, multidimensional characters in fiction, covering everything from research to character block. Interviews with today's top writers complete this essential volume.
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Average:
I thought this would be a great book, but it really wasn't up there in terms of being helpful. There are lots of other really good books like:
1. Dave Trottier's - The Screenwriter's Bible
2. Blake Synder's - Save the Cat
3. Syd Field's - Foundations of Screenwriting
4. Syd field's - The Screenwriter's Problem Solver
5. Scott Sedita's - The Eight Characters of Comedy Stick with those five and don't waste your money on the rest. I've bought them all and those five are the... more info
CREATING MEMORABLE CHARACTERS:
In the preface, Linda Seger observes: "The concepts within this book relate to the creation of all fiction characters and are based on the principles I've discovered as a drama professor, a theater director, and script consultant.... For this book, I've interviewed over thirty writers who have articulated and affirmed these concepts; these include novelists and writers for film." Her how-to book comprises ten engaging chapters, each concluding with a case study on a well-known screenscript such as... more info
Good deal:
The book has been delivered brand new, in time. The contents of the book are above expectations and live upto to the reviews. Keep it up guys.
there are better books on characterization:
Unlike her book, Making a Good Script Great, this book is disappointing. Creating characters involves: "getting the first idea..., creating the first broad strokes, finding the core of the character...finding the paradoxes within the character..., adding emotions, attitudes, and values, adding details to make the character specific and unique" (p.23). These steps are then elaborated in separate chapters (although the elaboration consists mostly of extended examples of films most people--those who actually... more info
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