Although Linda began her career and became known for her books about screenwriting, she has also written a number of books about spirituality and her personal journey.
Making a Good Script Great
(3rd Edition)
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. This book takes you through the whole screenwriting process – from initial concept through final rewrite. more…
Creating Unforgettable Characters: A practical guide to character development in films, TV series, advertisements, novels & short stories
In this book, Linda Seger shows how to create strong, multidimensional characters in fiction. more…
The Art of Adaptation: Turning Fact and Fiction into Film
A comprehensive handbook for screenwriters, producers, and directors who want to successfully transform fictional or factual material into film. Seger tells how to analyze source material to understand why some of it resists adaptation. more…
The Collaborative Art of Filmmaking: From Script to Screen
(3rd Edition)
The book explores what goes into the making of Hollywood’s greatest motion pictures. This fully revised and updated edition includes interviews with over 80 well-known artists in their fields including writers, producers, directors, actors, editors, composers, and production designers. more…
Making a Good Writer Great: A Creativity Workbook for Screenwriters
This unique new addition to this popular collection of screenwriting books combines current theories of creativity with the practices of screenwriting, focusing on ways in which screenwriters can learn to think and work more creatively.. more…
When Women Call the Shots: The Developing Power and Influence of Women in Television and Film
Dr. Linda Seger discusses how record numbers of women are working in all areas of the film and television and industries. Through interviews with key players, she shows just what a woman’s influence means in what we see, and what we will see much more of in the years ahead, in movie theaters and on our TV screens and how in turn that power affects society. more…
Advanced Screenwriting: Taking your Writing to the Academy Award Level
This book is written by one of today’s most active and respected screenwriting gurus and is a collection of meditations for fine-tuning the script. more…
The Best Screenplay
This book provides a CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) approach to Academy Award-winning screenplays, giving you the nitty gritty details of how an Academy Award script was created. more…
Writing Subtext: What Lies Beneath
Subtext can be the most important element in text and in a performance. It’s an unseen force that speaks directly to the reader’s unconscious, deepening meaning and understanding. This book edition goes far beyond dialogue, action, gestures, genre, and images adding new examples with chapters on analogy and love, and it provides deeper explanations of how subtext works beneath the text. more…
You Talkin’ To Me?: How to Write Great Dialogue
The best stories have dialogue that sparkles, but it’s easy for inexperienced writers to fall into common pitfalls like creating dialogue that’s wooden or too on the nose. In this book Linda Seger and John Winston Rainey explore dialogue from different angles and discuss examples of great dialogue from films and novels. more…
Seger Notes
Linda has written a series of 5000 word analyses of eight films. You can download them for free. more…
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