Making a Good Script Great

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. Making a Good Script Great takes you through the whole screenwriting process-from initial concept through final rewrite-providing specific methods that will help you craft tighter, stronger, and more salable scripts.

While retaining the invaluable insights that placed its first two editions among the all-time most popular screenwriting books, this expanded, revised, and updated third edition adds rich and important new material on dialogue, cinematic images, and point of view, as well as an interview with screenwriter Paul Haggis.

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, it will help you articulate the skills you know intuitively. And if you're currently stuck on a rewrite, this book will help you analyze and solve your script's problems and get it back on track.

• The Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives
• Writing Short Films: Structure and Content for Screenwriters
• Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting
• Creating Unforgettable Characters: A Practical Guide to Character Development in Films, TV Series, Advertisements, Novels & Short Stories
• The Essential Screenplay (3-Book Bundle): Screenplay: Foundations of Screenwriting, Screenwriter's Workbook, and Screenwriter's Problem Solver
• The Craft of Scene Writing: Beat by Beat to a Better Script
• The Idea: The Seven Elements of a Viable Story for Screen, Stage or Fiction
• Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
• The Nutshell Technique: Crack the Secret of Successful Screenwriting
• The Screenwriter's Bible, 6th Edition: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script (Expanded & Updated)