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Write Your Hotel California
How To Launch Your Writing Career Based On The Top Five Reasons Executives Pass On Scripts
- Gain insight into why scripts get passed on, and apply this to elevate your screenwriting.
- Dispel three common industry myths about screenwriting and change your perspective on how to approach screenwriting with a focus on “pre-writing”.
- Learn the importance of pre-writing and how it can completely elevate your story before you begin the act of writing.
The Pre-Writing Workshop
Six Classes - $99
Six in-depth video classes on how to properly develop each of the five key conceits in order to make your script viable.
INTRODUCTION
- Five Key Conceits - Based on the top five reasons executives pass on scripts
- Viability - The degree to which you develop your five conceits so that any pass you receive is purely subjective
- Your Anchor - The first conceit that led to the birth of your story
CONCEPT
- Concept Statement - An essential tool used for developing your conceptÂ
- Polarity - The most important element that must be applied to all parts of your story
CHARACTER
-  What exactly makes a story “character driven”.Â
- Four Character Identities - how each of them will make your character remarkable.Â
- Signature Scene - the one essential scene that will compel your audience to care about your character when we first meet them.Â
- Character Arcs - Common misunderstandings on how to construct a proper character arc and how to address them.
WORLD
- World is not setting - the key distinction that will make your world compellingÂ
- Reality vs Fiction - Understanding the two different types of world and how to develop each.Â
- The Billboard Test - A helpful tool used to develop your world.
STORY
- Story vs Things Happening - the key distinction that will make your story compelling.Â
- The Launch of your Story - 3 Beats that make up your Inciting IncidentÂ
- The Change In Status Quo - The essential beat that launches your story.
POINT OF VIEW
- Â A reason for YESÂ
- Three desired responses to your point of view
i) Shared point of view, original concept
ii) New point of view
iii) Changed point of view
