How to Write a Screenplay in 8 Weeks (Enrolling Now For September!)
Online via ZOOM
| My grandma used to say, “Done right, done once.” If you want to get your screenplay done well, and fast, this is the right class for you. Using my trademarked writing method, you will call on your native expertise to create a gripping story, and get it written in eight weeks. This is an intensive class so be prepared to write 15-25 pages a week. To facilitate this, you will have a supportive fellow writer to confer with, learn to write great dialog, and a foolproof method for structuring a good story. It’s easy to write when you know what you’re writing, and have a solid craft. Join me for this adventure in creating your future! |
Class is offered at a 10% discount of $835.00 and includes two of the required textbooks, How To Write A Screenplay and The Four Magic Questions of Screenwriting, an $80.00 value, as part of the tuition.
Classes meet on Tuesdays beginning September 20. Class time is 6:30-9:00 pm.
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Rewriting the Screenplay in 6 Weeks
Tuesday nights, 6:30-9:30 pm beginning June 7, 2022
Via Zoom for now! This class will help you take your first draft and turn it into a second draft that can be shown, through a third round of tweaks that will improve your chances of selling.
You get 6 3-hour classes plus a professional evaluation of the second draft of the script at the end of the class, an $1850.00 value.
Class 1 will address the collective issues I see after reviewing the scripts and scene-by-scene outlines. Structure, scene work, and character development will be re-examined, and any flaws will be corrected,
Class 2 will be to teach you how to evaluate and create a rewrite plan. You will work with your partner to share, critique, and create accountability.
Class 3 Begin rewriting. Clean up Act 1
Class 4 Review Act 1. Rewrite Act 2, part 1
Class 5 Review Act 2, part 1. Rewrite Act 2, part 2
Class 6 Review Act 2. part 2. Rewrite Act 3
If you can’t make it, please let me know.
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Use Screenplay Structure to Create Post-pandemic Stories and Get Back to “Normal.”
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
8:00 pm to 10:00 pm EST/ 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm PST
via ZOOM
Join my free class!
It’s exciting to see that there may be an end to our quarantine sometime soon. The challenge will then be to return to ”normal.” Hopefully, because we were in close proximity to people we love, and trapped with ourselves, we have reevaluated what’s really important to us. We need new stories to help us navigate our way to a new life filled with more heartfelt meaning. We’ve been forced to spend less time away at work or school, less time on our phones, and more time with people we care about. Our values have changed, and that’s a good thing. Please join me to explore what these new stories might be, and how to tweak a current story to make it relevant to the crisis that is passing.
Please email me at marilyn@marilynhorowitz.com if you’d like to attend.
Using Screenplay Structure To Write About Life During the Pandemic
Join my FREE class!
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm EST
via ZOOM
Expanding on last week’s webinar, We’ll reprise the techniques, new students will make up a story, and returning students will learn how to expand the story into a short story, TV Pilot, movie or book.
We’ve been living in a science fiction movie since the Coronavirus has shut us down. We urgently need to process our recent experiences, regain emotional balance, and now move forward with strength and purpose. Humans have used storytelling to understand their experience since the first cavemen sat around a campfire. The Zoom meeting has become our new “Campfire.” Making meaning of our lives through storytelling is our first need once our basic survival is secured.
There are important similarities between screenplay story structure and how we actually organize and understand real life experience, for example, our need for a story to have a beginning, middle and end. We’re all hardwired for story and learning a little craft results in a satisfying experience for both writer and reader. In this webinar, you’ll learn my easy method for building good stories and then how to create short 1-2 paragraph stories, quickly and well. The Webinar will be in three parts:
1. We’ll reprise my easy method of story creation
2. New participants will structure and write a paragraph story. Returning participants will develop the stories they created in the previous webinar.
3. We’ll read some of them aloud to the group.
Please email me at marilyn@marilynhorowitz.com if you’d like to attend, and you’ll receive an invitation to join.
NYWIFT Classes
How To Write The Perfect Pilot in 30 Days
In this practical workshop, Marilyn will discuss the elements that make up a perfect half-hour pilot. A perfect pilot is one that sells, and to do so, must contain certain elements that will insure the proper industry reception. The class will focus on the half hour pilot, because this is the most commercially viable format for the first time TV Writer/Creator.
You’ll learn how to:
- Create a commercially viable concept
- Build “Lovable” characters
- Determine your genre: Comedy, Drama or Dramedy
- Structure a half-hour pilot
- Construct a “Season Arc” for your story
- Organize a “Bible” for your show
This workshop will be helpful whether you’re a beginning writer, producer, director or a seasoned veteran looking for some new tips.
Attendees will receive a free copy of Marilyn’s New York University textbook, The Four Magic Questions of Screenwriting.
-Coming Soon –
From Idea to Concept
Were you unable to attend my recent NYWIFT seminar? I am excited to be offering the seminar in digital format.
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Use Screenplay Structure to Process Recent Events (and maybe get your next story idea)
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm EST
via ZOOM
We’ve been living in a science fiction movie since the Coronavirus has shut us down. We urgently need to process our recent experiences, regain emotional balance, and now move forward with strength and purpose. Humans have used storytelling to understand their experience since the first cavemen sat around a campfire. The Zoom meeting has become our new “Campfire.” Making meaning of our lives through storytelling is our first need once our basic survival is secured.
There are important similarities between screenplay story structure and how we actually organize and understand real life experience, for example, our need for a story to have a beginning, middle and end. We’re all hardwired for story and learning a little craft results in a satisfying experience for both writer and reader. In this webinar, you’ll learn my easy method for building good stories and then how to create short 1-2 paragraph stories, quickly and well. The Webinar will be in three parts:
1. You’ll learn this easy method of story creation
2. Participants will structure and write a paragraph story.
3. We’ll read some of them aloud to the group.
Please email me at marilyn@marilynhorowitz.com if you’d like to attend, and you’ll receive an invitation to join.
