At Tom Sawyer we primarily represent clients who do comedy. However, as I recently re-discovered — you can get me to love anything if you have great characters.
This week I read a torture-thriller that scared me half to death. While I normally don’t like that kind of genre, the characters were so in-depth and three dimensional that I just couldn’t stop myself from falling in love with the script.
Which goes to show you that writing great characters is the key to any great script — whether it is comedy, drama, thriller or horror.
If you write great characters you can change your reader’s perception of what genre they are interested in. You can even change the minds of studio execs of what they want to buy.
Take the time to perfect your characters so agents, managers, producers and executives will fall in love with your scrip
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