title: Dating Your Character: A Sexy Guide to Screenwriting for Film and TV
author: Marilyn R. Atlas
description: 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-winning TV director of The Game, NCIS New Orleans, Monk and Author of The NEW Sitcom Career Book<br /><br />The authors offer every writer - beginner or seasoned, of screenplays, novels, games, or plays - a fun new approach to character creation. 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 Stories<br /><br />DYC 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. --Jennie Lew Tugend, Producer of Free Willy, Lethal Weapon, Return to Me
zlib_text: Marilyn Yaquinto
  
   **Policing the World on Screen**
  
   **American Mythologies and Hollywood’s Rogue Crimefighters**
  
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  Marilyn Yaquinto
  
  School of Social and Cultural Studies, Truman State University, Kirksville,
  MO, USA
  
  ISBN 978-3-030-24804-8 e-ISBN 978-3-030-24805-5
  
  <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24805-5>
  
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