by Tom | Apr 10, 2024 | Academy, News, Online sessions and screenwriting classes, Screenwriting Courses, Updates, WriteMovies Academy, WriteMovies News
Have you got an idea for a script but are struggling to begin or finish that first draft? Our Scriptwriting First Drafts Course is here for you!
Join us on Thursday April 25th for our Scriptwriting First Drafts Course.
In this online workshop from WriteMovies Academy, you’ll learn about perhaps the most exciting part of screenwriting – going from “zero draft” to the first draft, and how to avoid Writer’s Block as you do it!
Click here to purchase tickets for our Scriptwriting First Drafts Course
Event Details:
- Date: April 25th 2024
- Time: 11am PDT, 2pm EDT, 7pm BST
- Location: Online via Zoom
- Cost: $30 per session or $150 for the full course
During this interactive session, our experienced screenwriting expert, WriteMovies Director Ian Kennedy, will guide you through the Writing Process, Writing Lifestyles, and give Tips on how to make time to write.
This course covers 6 lessons:
Lesson 1: Knowing when you’re ready to start writing
Lesson 2: What is your writing process?
Lesson 3: What should a screenplay look like?
Lesson 4: Pet hates from a script reader!
Lesson 5: Screenwriting Style
Lesson 6: Breaking the rules and Screenwriting now
by Tom | Apr 5, 2024 | Academy, Updates
Our Script Development and Outlining Online Course is now available on demand from as low as $15!
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This session is Phase 2 of WriteMovies Academy’s Mastering Professional Screenwriting and Pitching course. Throughout the session, our 4 Mini-Masterclasses covered:
- Turning a Concept into something that’s fully ready to write – What is at the heart of your story?
- Story Types – Tapping into our universal expectations of stories.
- Story Structures and Beat Sheets – A guide
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- Adding Depth to Your Story – Making your story lifelike enough to convince audiences to trust your telling.
Phase 1: Concept and Theme is also available on demand. Click here for more information.
See below to access this unique on-demand course in your preferred currency ($USD, $CAD, $AUD and £GBP).
Select from the dropdown ‘ Development & Outlining with mentoring’ if you’d like to complete the activities suggested in the course, and submit them to WriteMovies for professional feedback and mentoring!
When you click on these buttons you can pay with either a PayPal account, or with the ‘Pay by Debit or Credit Card’ option underneath that.
We hope you enjoy our Script Development and Outlining Online Course! To view and book future events please click here.
by Tom | Mar 13, 2024 | Academy, News, Online sessions and screenwriting classes, Screenwriting Courses, Updates, WriteMovies Academy, WriteMovies News
Kick-start your next screenwriting journey with Part 2 of a 6-phase online course from WriteMovies Academy.
Join us for the next phase in this online course from WriteMovies Academy where you’ll learn to master professional screenwriting and pitching! In this online workshop, you’ll learn how to fill the gaps and spot the missing pieces that stand between your idea and a fully-rounded outline that’s ready to write. If you’re looking to master your screenwriting ability, this event is perfect for you. Click here to purchase tickets.
Phase 2 – Development & Outlining Event Details:
- Date: March 28th 2024
- Time: 12pm PDT, 3pm EDT, 7pm GMT
- Location: Online via Zoom
- Cost: $30 per session or $150 for the full course.
Phase 1: Concept & Theme is also now available on demand.
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by WriteMovies | Mar 13, 2024 | Academy, Online sessions and screenwriting classes
Our Script Concept and Theme Online Course is now available on demand from as low as $15!
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This session is Phase 1 of WriteMovies Academy’s Mastering Professional Screenwriting and Pitching course. Throughout the session, our 6 Mini-Masterclasses covered:
- Knowing Yourself and Your Goals – Why clarity gets results.
- Personal Identities – Why they’re vital in writing and storytelling, and how to use them powerfully.
- Understanding Producers and Commissioners – What role do writers actually play, for the people
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who actually pay?
- Key Aspects of Writing and Storytelling – A short introduction into why they matter and how to use them powerfully.
- Generating Ideas – Varied exercises to create ideas for projects to compare and develop in future.
- Choosing The Right Ideas – Good ways, bad ways, anyways?
See below to access this unique on-demand course in your preferred currency ($USD, $CAD, $AUD and £GBP).
Select from the dropdown ‘ Development & Outlining with mentoring’ if you’d like to complete the activities suggested in the course, and submit them to WriteMovies for professional feedback and mentoring!
When you click on these buttons you can pay with either a PayPal account, or with the ‘Pay by Debit or Credit Card’ option underneath that.
We hope you enjoy our Script Concept and Theme Online Course! To view and book future events please click here.
by WriteMovies | Feb 16, 2024 | Academy, Competition Offers, Contests, Development Notes, News, Offers, Online sessions and screenwriting classes, Screenwriting Contests, Screenwriting Courses, Studio Consulting, WriteMovies Academy, WriteMovies News
Take your career to the next level by climbing our Ladder to Success for Screenwriters!
We’ve launched our Ladder to Success for Screenwriters. Whatever your skills and success, you can climb our ladder to progress your career to the next level!
With 25 years of success since WriteMovies was first launched, we’ve got a great foundation for building writers’ careers at WriteMovies, and a new model for helping you to the next level in 2024! WriteMovies is built on our founder’s unique industry expertise and contacts and our Director’s extensive industry and business experience and grassroots contacts.
Mastering Professional Screenwriting and Pitching course
On February 29th (11am PST, 2pm EST, 7pm GMT) we’re launching the first of many online courses from WriteMovies Academy where you can master professional screenwriting and pitching! In this first online workshop, we’ll dive into crafting compelling Concepts and Themes for film and television. The cost is $30 per session or $150 for the full 6-part course: Concept and Theme (Thursday February 29th), Development and Outlining (March 28th), The First Draft (April 25th), The Second Draft (May 30th), Pitching and Promoting (June 27th), That’s a Wrap (July 25th)! Purchase tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mastering-professional-screenwriting-and-pitching-part-1-concept-theme-tickets-828898637137
Contests, Mentoring and Development
With our Anytime Entry service, you can enter your script at any time for just $45 and receive:
- An analysis of the crucial first ten pages of your script, focusing on its key strengths and weaknesses.
- A writer evaluation, where our analyst considers its potential for our representation and pitching to industry (guaranteed to all writers who earn a Recommended rating!).
- Free entry to any relevant contest we open this year – which can also be for your next draft, if your writer evaluation gains a Consider or Recommend!
Or you can inform your next steps as a writer by entering for a WriteMovies Studio Consulting Report, Development Notes or get Script Consultancy Services direct from Dr. Alex Ross! Wherever you are in your screenwriting career, we can take you to the next level as you climb our Ladder to Success!
Recognition, Awards & Talent Management, Pitching & Dealmaking, Production & Distribution… all building global audiences and enduring careers!
We’re looking forward to showing you more examples of how we build recognition for our winners and pitch them to industry in the coming weeks… watch this space!
by Tom | Feb 9, 2024 | Academy, News, Online sessions and screenwriting classes, Screenwriting Courses, WriteMovies Academy, WriteMovies News
Kick-start your next screenwriting journey with Part 1 of a 6-phase online course from WriteMovies Academy.
Join us for the first of many online courses from WriteMovies Academy where you’ll learn to master professional screenwriting and pitching! In this online workshop, we’ll dive into the art of crafting compelling concepts for film and television. If you’re looking to master your screenwriting ability, this event is perfect for you. Click here to purchase tickets.
Event Details:
- Date: February 29th 2024
- Time: 11am PST, 2pm EST, 7pm GMT
- Location: Online via Zoom
- Cost: $30 per session or $150 for the full course.
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by WriteMovies | Sep 21, 2020 | Academy, WriteMovies Academy, Writing Insights
We’ve been conducting a joint survey of writers with an international theatre company to establish what support writers need in their Career Development right now, and to help us plan new products and services to meet those needs. Here’s a first sight of what we’ve learned… (more…)