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-providing specific methods that will help you craft tighter, stronger, and more saleable 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 are writing your first script, this book will help develop your skills for telling a compelling and dramatic story. If you are a veteran screenwriter, it will help you articulate the skills you know intuitively. And if you are currently stuck on a rewrite, this book will help you analyse and solve your script's problems and get it back on track.

琳达·西格（Linda Seger）,好莱坞资深编剧顾问,从1981年起为2000多部剧本和100多部电影担任了策划咨询工作,并在三十多个国家教授剧本写作。与她合作过的影人和电影公司为数众多,如导演彼得·杰克逊、朗·霍华德,ABC、CBS、NBC电视台,以及迪士尼公司等。她同时还是美国电影学会、美国导演协会、美国编剧协会、美国电视艺术与科学学院、美国电影艺术与科学学院会员。因剧本咨询方面的成就,她获得了Redemptive Film Festival终身成就奖及Moondance等其他电影节多项大奖。更多信息请参见www.lindaseger.com。

曹怡平,先后就读于西南政法大学、中国艺术研究院,获经济法学士学位、民商法硕士学位和影视美学博士学位。现居重庆,任教于西南大学文学院戏剧影视文学系。已出版译著《电影制片人融资指南》,专著《从剪刀手到守夜人》,发表论文80余篇。