Events for Screenwriters

After two years of healing from brain surgery, I am back to privately coaching screenwriters. My empathy has grown immensely over these few years, and my approach to working with students has evolved to focus more on what a writer wants their script to convey than the structural milestones expected by the industry.

Our sessions will focus on the questions that your work brings to the table, and finding a way to answer them that makes sense to your project. I offer some advice, some tricks of the trade, but mainly we look for ways to help you find solutions to the missing links, the off-track journeys and the deep ruts of stuckness. I will be looking for a strong foundation of character and purpose. The only goal is to rise out of mediocre and let the unique idea that inspired you come out and play again. We'll go as far as you're willing to go...and hopefully that means finishing and finding a path to production that suits the story.

I'm no longer, or not yet able to speak to large groups. I become flustered and drive myself crazy with backtracking, but one-on-one instruction has been working out very well. I can start at the very beginning with a writer, or come in for a rewrite. Generally, I meet with students to begin with in Superior, Colorado, just outside of the city of Boulder, or over Skype. My hours of availability for these meetings are limited and so I truly have room for only 2-3 students at a time. This means that I can really focus on your projects though, and that's a better deal for you.

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