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In this comprehensive course, Gunnar will walk you through the steps of creating a series that highlights your comedic voice. He will also ensure your pilot is suitably structured for network and streaming broadcast. Multi-camera shows are not written the same as single-camera shows. Gunnar is one of the few writing coaches in Hollywood who can explain the difference and help guide you in both formats. New writers and experienced writers will benefit...
This 4-week workshop offers a brief history and introduction to the intersection of new media and poetry. We will read and write poetry that crosses boundaries and engages modern technology and media tools to make poetry more accessible and appeal to a broader audience. Students will study the work of a new generation of tech-savvy young writers, who are transforming poetry by combining graphics, video, podcasting and other social media with traditional...
Writing prose poetry is exciting, fun, and challenging. Prose poems vary a great deal. They display an abundance of different narrators and approaches: the one common element is that sentences, rather than free or metrical verse, drive the writing. In this six-week class, you will sample diverse exercises based on accessible, yet artistically challenging and satisfying, models. In the optional weekly, unrecorded live discussions, we will discuss...
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Explore Professional Private Group EventsDiscover the art of crafting compelling essays as you explore the works of renowned essayists. Dive into the techniques of persona narration and other elements of craft that bring the material to life and engage the reader. Join us for an immersive six-week class conducted via video chat using Zoom.
Are you curious about this very short story form? Do you have a story you want to tell in about 1,000 words? Flash fiction is a fun challenge for any writer, and it’s a great way to explore different narrative styles and techniques. In this six-week class, we’ll look at several examples of very short fiction. Each week, you will write a short, complete prose piece modeled on a writer’s example. The teacher chooses these exercises from a variety...
Thinking about writing a novel but don't know where to begin? Come get the tools to start your story. Explore the basics of how to develop sympathetic and believable characters, create engaging conflict, and structure all of this into a full-length page-turner of a story. In-class creative writing exercises and enjoyable homework assignments reinforce each lesson, and your writing will be reviewed in class in a very supportive environment. When you...
Unlock your inner author and bring your unfinished manuscript or story idea to life in a supportive and professional environment. Get expert feedback, personal critiques, and a winning strategy for completing your novel to your satisfaction at Santa Monica College. Don't miss your chance to make your writing dreams a reality.
DBA Flappers University @ **Virtual Classroom
It's one of the dream jobs of many comedians: working in a real writers' room on the staff of a hit TV sitcom. But how do you get that job? What is it like? And most importantly... can I really do it? In this intense six-week course, students will begin to craft their very own sitcom script in a classroom experience designed to mimic working in an actual TV writers' room. Through a combination of lectures, examples, worksheets and exercises...
The Big Frame: Poetry as a Tool for Re-Seeing the World Your perspective matters. How you see the world—the way you meet even the smallest moment—affects everyone and everything in the world around you. The stories you tell yourself and others create the big conversation—what are we doing here? What does it mean to be alive? But practically speaking, how do we change our perspective? How might our stories limit us? How do we re-see...
Your Book Is Your Hook LLC @ Online
Learn how to pitch and present your book or screenplay to industry professionals and gain the tools and confidence to succeed as a bestselling author or screenwriter at the Next Bestseller Workshop. Get practical training and feedback from seasoned experts in the publishing and entertainment industries, and learn how to engage decision-makers with compelling hooks that will set your project apart. Don't miss this opportunity to turn your writing dreams into reality.
The Writers Studio Teen Workshop is a creative writing program geared specifically for the needs and passions of teens, based on the successful Writers Studio program for adults. It’s a fun, supportive space for young people to explore fiction and poetry. Every week, students will practice a narrative technique from some of the best contemporary writers — such as Junot Diaz, Brian Turner, Cate Marvin, Niccolo Ammaniti, Tyehimba Jess, Susan...
You’ve got a story, outline or 1 pager for a TV Show or feature. You know your characters in and out, but now you have to write compelling, dramatic, hilarious, true scenes! In this one-day Online Bringing TV Characters To Life workshop “Transparent” and “I Love Dick” Consulting Producer Brett Paesel, helps you break down your script into 5 essential movements, a unique form of structure. In this capacity, she assists directors and writers...
Irish Arts Center @ Virtual Classroom
This class will be held online. Whether you’re interested in full-length plays, musicals, short plays, or other forms, all dramatic writing employs essential ideas and techniques to bring out the drama in any narrative. Explore theatricality and the craft of dramatic writing, and walk away with a self-identified set of skills you can use to craft dynamic stories for the world to experience.
The New York Screenwriter's Lab @ Virtual Classroom
The NYSL 2-Part TV Pilot Itensive will give you a comprehensive overview of the structure and elements that combine to create a successful TV show (comedy or drama). Through lecture, exercises an discussion, the topics covered will include: The various structures used in TV. And which structure will best suit the need of your show. How to pack your show with enough conflict to generate multiple seasons worth of fresh-feeling...
Alaa Al Aswany Creative Writing Workshop
In this class, students learn the basic elements of a short story and practice different writing techniques: imaginative composition, creating vivid characters, making a dramatic beginning, organizing the structure of a literary text, using remembrance, implicit description, and focused, semantic dialogue. Each student in class 3 will write short stories and a critical essay. During 10 weeks, the professor and students will discuss each student...
The virtual screenwriting course will be taught by award-winning filmmaker Pedro Resto. The focus of the course is to help students develop an original idea into a screenplay draft. By using accelerated screenwriting techniques, students will learn the fundamentals of writing for film. Upon completion of the course, students will have a short screenplay written to add to their portfolio. The course will cover the following: Introduction...
To take your place in a coveted Hollywood writers’ room, you’ll need more than just a killer sample. You’ll need an edge that allows you to hit the ground running from day one, experience. In this three-hour live online Writers’ Room Survival Bootcamp, The Handmaid’s Tale writers/producers Nina Fiore and John Herrera demystify the inner workings of the elusive world of Hollywood television development by breaking down the hierarchy, politics,...
Want to know why creators and marketers say a blog is the best type of website? Whether you want a website for personal or professional use, discover how a blog makes it easy to share your products, services, writing, pictures, and videos with family, friends, organizations, and customers. Find out the four most popular ways to use a blog to make money and how a blog makes your search and social media marketing easier! Topics include...
Is it your dream to write a graphic novel or a comic book? Are you an artist who’d like to learn how to turn your characters and concept into a compelling story? Or maybe you have a visionary concept for a comic book or graphic novel that could turn into prestige streaming series or a blockbuster film? If so you’ll need something more valuable than an eight-figure budget: Commercial IP. Agents, execs and producers love it and having your own...
Your premise is the DNA of your TV series and pilot. In this one-day concept development class, uber screenwriter Mike Ellis (16 scripts sold, Netflix’s Insatiable, Development Executive) will show you how to build your show idea from the ground up while breaking it down to its most essential elements. You’ll also learn pilot do’s, don’ts and musts as well the ingredients of a successful premise. Students will also get feedback on their...
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