SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Ep. 468 – Psychology for Writers with William Indick
This week Ashley Scott Meyers with Author William Indick, a professor of Psychology, William talks about how the study of scholars like Erikson, Jung, and Freud can be applied by writers in terms of story and character.
This week Ashley Scott Meyers with Author William Indick.
As a professor of Psychology, William Indick talks about how the study of scholars like Erikson, Jung, and Freud can be applied by writers in terms of story and character.
William Indick is the author of several books on the subject including Psychology For Screenwriters. Other topics include how movies like American Beauty and Top Gun: Maverick relate to Psychology and why the Western is a genre that will never die.
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You can also read a transcript of this episode.
Links mentioned in the show:
- William Indick website
- The SYS script analysis service
- Our free guide, "How to Sell Your Screenplay in 5 Weeks!"
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Ashley Scott Meyers is a screenwriter and blogger / podcaster. Since beginning his career as a screenwriter in the late 1990’s he’s optioned more than two dozen feature screenplays and sold a half dozen. And he’s done it all without an agent or manager, instead opting to use his pragmatic screenplay marketing guide which he teaches at SellingYourScreenplay.com.