Do you know how to craft a story?

Writers use a lot of different words for the process of figuring out a story.

You break a story.

You crack a story.

You wrangle a story.

Those verbs give you a pretty good idea of the fundamental challenge a writer faces when writing a story. It ain’t easy. A story is a live, moving target with a will of its own, so in order to craft a story, you need to know how to break it, crack it, wrangle it.

That’s why I created “Prep: From Concept to Outline,” a unique six-week online Screenwriting Master Class course that provides participants an interactive approach to figuring out a story. Once you learn this approach, you can use it on all future writing projects.

The class consists of six lectures that I’ve written and six weekly writing exercises, creating a process that engages you with your story universe and its characters. During the six weeks, your story emerges enabling you to pull together a comprehensive outline so you can type FADE IN with confidence.

Moreover it’s a workshop environment, so you get the benefit not only of my feedback, but comments and suggestions of other writers, including weekly teleconferences.

Finally it creates a structured online environment that lights a fire under your ass, so if you have problems making progress, sticking to something, or even getting started, committing to a class like this can be just the thing you need.

The next session of the Prep class starts tomorrow, June 4 and runs through July 15, and there are still a couple of spots open. To my knowledge, there is nothing else like “Prep: From Concept to Outline” anywhere else, which strikes me as crazy because every Hollywood writer knows how critically important prep is to writing a successful story.

For more information or to enroll, go here.

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