0 Items in Your Cart

The Woman in the Story: Writing Memorable Female Characters

At a Glance

  • Guide to creating memorable female characters
  • Provides a groundbreaking paradigm for believable female protagonists
  • Includes a filmography with recommended viewing highlights

Creating a memorable female character with huge audience appeal is not just a matter of choosing a heroine over a hero. By creating a heroine, the screenwriter has to consider all kinds of differences, from character development to gender issues.

Venturing where other screenwriting guides fear to tread, Helen Jacey's The Woman In The Story: Writing Memorable Female Characters provides screenwriters and storytellers with a groundbreaking creative paradigm for the creation of memorable female characters. The book casts a refreshingly honest and empowering woman-centric light on every stage of the writing process.

What's inside:

  • Foreword by Dr Linda Seger, leading US screenwriting expert, and author of When Women Call The Shots, Creating Unforgettable Female Characters, Making A Good Script Great, And The Best Screenplay Goes To...
  • Engaging, stimulating, and easy to read
  • Radically new screenwriting principles including the Feminine SuperThemes, the M-Factor, The Metaphoric Wound and Role-Choice for Heroines
  • Targeted writing Tips and Close-Up Scene Analysis
  • A series of targeted Heroine Questionnaires to bring a female character to life
  • Ground-breaking approach to 'gender consciousness' 'in screenwriting and the film industry
  • Constructive advice on dealing with gender issues in the development process
  • Filmography with recommended viewing highlights

Product Details

Return Policy

Your satisfaction is our top priority. If you are not satisfied with your purchase, please return the item(s) for an exchange or refund within 30 days from the purchase date, unless otherwise noted on the product page.

Ship the item(s) to The Writers Store via a traceable and insured method. You will be responsible for return shipping fees.

Please include a completed Return Form with your shipment. Refunds take up to one week to process once we have received the item(s).

Software returns must be deactivated and uninstalled from your computer before a refund may be issued. Please contact the software manufacturer if you need assistance uninstalling or deactivating your software.

The following items are not returnable: Hollywood Creative Directories, DVDs (opened), and Gift Certificates.

Meet the Author: Helen Jacey

Helen Jacey is a professional screenwriter with over ten years experience in the UK film industry. She has sold or had optioned all her spec screenplays and has been commissioned to write numerous screenplays for UK and European Film Production Companies. 

Helen runs a two day seminar Helen Jacey’s Writing The Heroine’s Story for screenwriters which has
been described as "simply the best ever screenwriting course, better than McKee, better than anyone." 

Helen provides story consultancy for individual screenwriting projects as well as lectures on the MA in Screenwriting at two leading Screen...

$26.95