Dating Your Character: A Sexy Guide to TV and Screenwriting
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (736 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1941071090 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 526 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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--Jennie Lew Tugend, Producer of Free Willy, Lethal Weapon, Return to Me . Designed with the breezy, can-do attitude of a self-help book, DYC offers practical advice on how to create a passionate, workable and working relationship with your characters. --Pamela Jaye Smith, Author of Show Me the Love! All Kinds of Love for All Kinds of StoriesDYC is a great way to create meaningful characters that you can spend the night with and who will still love you in the morning! Required reading. Dating Your Character is a must for any writer who wants to create 3-dimensional, interesting, non-stereotypical characters that jump off the page! --Mary Lou Belli, Emmy award-winnin
Atlas continues to develop projects based on books and true life stories for television. Devorah ( Devo ) Cutler-Rubenstein s passion for storytelling and art brought her to Cal Arts where she earned her BFA in Film/Art from California Institute of the Arts. Then, she partnered with producer/actor Mary Sax
Unique and Refreshing Steve Kaplan Breaking free from the constraints of rote character development, Dating Your Character offers a unique and refreshing perspective on bringing distinctive, idiosyncratic and compelling characters to life. More than a laundry list of character attributes or backstory bios, Atlas, Rubenstein and Lopez guide both new and experienced writers through the process
It doesn t layer physical descriptions onto archetypal outlines, then color in the flaws and motivation to make that thumbnail sketch more personal. But, not much in the way of a truly in-depth synthesis of the collage of facts in the character s biography. Dating Your Character: A Sexy Guide to Screenwriting for Film and TV, is based on the principle that interesting characters actually are co-creators in the writing process. Most books approach character development using a winnowing process involving general categorization and list-making. The DYC method doesn t start from the outside in. DYC focuses on the importance of the individuality of characters: their eccentricity, drive, and relative "basis in fact" inspired in part by people you know or you yourself.. It s organized into some of the standard stages in an evolving, romantic relationship, launched by a couple of chapters that encourage you to take some personal inventory: - Casting Your Ideal Character - The Meet Cute - The First Date - Serious Dating - Moving In Together - The First Fight - Making A Commitment - Hitched Or Ditched On the way to a kind of trust and growing intimacy, the structure of