Linda Seger is a screenwriting coach and script consultant best known for her method of analyzing movie scripts, which she originally developed as her college dissertation project. She has consulted on over 2000 screenplays with the likes of Ron Howard

Ron Howard

Ronald William "Ron" Howard is an American actor, director, and producer. He came to prominence as a child actor, playing Opie Taylor in the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show for eight years, and later the teenaged Richie Cunningham in the sitcom Happy Days for six years...

, Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th...

 and Jennifer Hilldebrand. Unlike other screenwriting gurus based in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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 (Robert McKee

Robert McKee

Robert McKee, born 1941, is a creative writing instructor who is widely known for his popular "Story Seminar", which he developed when he was a professor at the University of Southern California. McKee is the author of a "screenwriters' bible" called Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the...

, Blake Snyder

Blake Snyder

Blake Snyder was an American screenwriter based in Los Angeles, who became one of the most popular . The author of three books on screenwriting and story structure, Snyder led international seminars and workshops for writers in various disciplines, as well as consultation sessions for some of...

) and New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 (Marilyn Horowitz

Marilyn Horowitz

Marilyn Horowitz is an award-winning NYU professor, script doctor, writing coach, producer and founder of The Horowitz Center for Screenwriting, an industry leader in transforming scripts into market-ready screenplays in record time. Horowitz is also the creator of The Horowitz System®, a writing...

), Linda lives in Colorado

Colorado

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. She has presented her seminars in more than 30 countries on 6 different continents.

She is the author of several books including the bestselling Making A Good Script Great. And in 2009: Spiritual Steps on the Road to Success

Linda is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post

The Huffington Post

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.

Linda Seger holds an M.A. in Religion and the Arts from Pacific School of Religion

Pacific School of Religion

Pacific School of Religion is an ecumenical seminary located in Berkeley, California. It maintains covenantal relationships with the United Church of Christ, the United Methodist Church and the Disciples of Christ, providing all necessary expectations for candidates to their ordained ministries....

, Berkeley, California, a ThD in Drama and Theology from The Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California, and an M.A. in Feminist theology

Feminist theology

Feminist theology is a movement found in several religions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, and New Thought, to reconsider the traditions, practices, scriptures, and theologies of those religions from a feminist perspective...

 from Immaculate Heart College Center, Los Angeles, California. She is a member of the Religious Society of Friends

Religious Society of Friends

The Religious Society of Friends, or Friends Church, is a Christian movement which stresses the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers. Members are known as Friends, or popularly as Quakers. It is made of independent organisations, which have split from one another due to doctrinal differences...

(Quakers) since 1970.