BONUS #004: Linda Seger - Go with the Flow

Dr. Linda Seger is a screenwriting & story coach, screenplay
consultant, copyright expert witness, author and international
speaker. In fact, she is one of the most prolific authors on
screenwriting, having written 16 books, with ten on
screenwriting, including the best-selling, Making a Good Script
Great, Creating Unforgettable Characters and Writing Subtext.


Linda has created and defined the career of Script Consultant
(the first one ever) and has consulted on over 2,000 scripts
including over 50 produced feature films and over 35 produced
television projects.


Linda was the consultant for Peter Jackson’s breakthrough film,
Brain Dead and for Roland Emmerich’s breakthrough
film, Universal Soldier.  She was the script consultant
on Pasttime and Picture Bride–both winners of the
Audience Favorite Award at the Sundance Film Festival–as well as
for the films The Long Walk Home, The Neverending
Story II, Luther, Romero, and television movies and
mini-series including The Bridge, the Danish-Swedish
mini-series.


Her clients have won numerous awards, including Academy Awards,
and have gained recognition from numerous film festivals and many
achieving box office hits. She’s lectured in over 33 countries
and has given seminars for studios, networks, production
companies, television series, film commissions, universities and
film schools. Ron Howard has also endorsed her bestselling
book, Making a Good Script Great, saying he used this book
to inform all of his movies beginning with Apollo 13.


In this podcast, we chat about retirement, being a good person,
screen writing, success, finding yourself, ego, negative people,
mental blocks, saying yes, conflict management, paving the way
for others, power, competition and teamwork, collaboration and
failure.

Check out Linda:


Website: https://lindaseger.com/

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