Making A Good Script Great,   Linda Seger

Samuel French Trade, 1994    Reviewed by Paul Kotik

Now, I'm no more going to write a saleable screenplay than are the other millions of the middle-aged inconsolables, but Seger's book does for the art of story what Hollywood does best: reduces conceptual and esthetic complexity to simple, unambiguous and thoroughly digestible thought bites. No nuisance nuance, sans subtlety. Drama for Dummies, without actually embarrassing author or reader. Hollywood, and Seger, may dumb it down but, by gum, it sells millions and millions of tickets, and association with large sums of money is, at some rate of exchange, convertible to intellectual legitimacy.

I like this book. I read it often. I'm a better reader of fiction because of it, and may yet astound family and friends with one of those 120-page tickets to entertainment fame and fortune. You saw it first here.

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