Want to (finally) learn how to write a script with characters that capture the attention of managers, agents, and vain, self-centered actors? Want to learn screenplay writing shortcuts and strategies to creating interesting, flawed -- though oddly-compelling -- characters without spending months and months of backstory creation and/or therapy? Looking for a NO B.S. and super-simple Screenwriting 101 that will show you how to get inside the head, and the heart, of your characters to make plotting and writing almost effortless? Well, in. .. How to Write a Script With Characters That Don't Suck - Screenplay Writing Made (Stupidly) Easy Book 2 you'll learn how to write a movie script with characters that literally scream off the page. (Okay, not literally. But you know what we mean.) You'll learn such tasty screenwriting morsels And unlike some well-worn screenwriting manual on building characters from 1986, which tells you ya gotta know your hero's memories at 12-years-old, this book was written by a former screenplay reader and optioned screenwriter, Michael Rogan of ScriptBully magazine, who can give you advice from the modern screenwriting trenches for creating the best screenplay characters possible. May not help get a five-picture deal at Paramount. But it can help you create characters that can help you tell one helluva story. Don't believe us? Check out what the people Amazon
Doesn’t really teach you anything that isn’t already explicitly obvious, such as giving your protagonist a driving force(?)
Also slanders books that teach you about catharsis and three act structure, which are two fundamental elements of screenwriting that should be taught! Overall this book feels oddly mean-spirited, but maybe that’s just my film-school brainwashing talking.
Probably a useful book for those with zero screenwriting knowledge, but not for me.