Making a good script great /
Linda Seger.
- 3rd ed.
- Los Angeles : Silman-James Press, c2010.
- 252 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes index.
Ch. 1. Gathering ideas -- Ch. 2. The three-act structure: why you need it and what to do with it -- Ch. 3. What do subplots do? -- Ch. 4. Act two: how to keep it moving? -- Ch. 5. Establishing a point of view -- Ch. 6. Creating the scene -- Ch. 7. Creating a cohesive script -- Ch. 8. Making it commercial -- Ch. 9. Balancing images and dialogue -- Ch. 10. From motivation to goal: finding your character's spine -- Ch. 11. Finding the conflict -- Ch. 12. Creating multidimensional and transformational characters -- Ch. 13. Character functions -- Ch. 14. A case study: writer Paul Haggis in his own words.