Event Details
Monday
September 14, 2020 5:00 pm
via Zoom
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The thirteenth installment of the Fundamentals of Screenwriting Series with Timothy Michael Cooper
Persistent, powerful writing habits are a must for a rewarding, productive, and long screenwriting career.
As you enjoy original games, challenges, and prompts LIVE, you’ll learn in realtime how robust writing habits can take your scripts—and your entire process—to the next level. Via encouraging feedback and provocative new approaches, you’ll emerge a positively changed and effortlessly more productive writer.
Some of the topics and techniques we’ll cover include:
- Surprisingly simple brainstorming prompts that’ll lift a weight from your shoulders
- Coolest Scene First, and other eye-opening games
- Free yourself with the delightful “dastardly plan” monologue
- Why a dozen “bad” pages is always better than one “great” page
- Banish writer’s block by giving yourself permission to fail
- Use “placeholder scenes” to skip the heavy lifting forever
- Productivity secrets that take virtually no effort to implement
- Get your most heartfelt and personal voice to shine through
- Vital exercises to expand your characters’ diversity and POV
- Timed tasks you can do to boost your career every single day
…and a whole lot more. Hope to see you there!
Timothy Michael Cooper is an award-winning filmmaker, comedy writer, and script consultant. He wrote and directed the Writers Guild Award-nominated Concierge: The Series, starring Kate McKinnon. His short comedy Lemon premiered at Tribeca, played at dozens of international festivals and on United Airlines, and is currently in development as a sitcom. Plus, he’s been part of the writers’ room for the Writers Guild Awards for the past six years, writing monologue jokes and sketches for numerous hosts/presenters.
Through his company, Blueprint Screenwriting Group, he’s taught hundreds of writers. His clients and students have sold their scripts to major studios; staffed on multiple network and cable TV shows; screened/won at SXSW, Sundance, Tribeca, Cannes, etc.; and got their movies and shows made across the globe.
Timothy is a proud member of the WGAE, the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective Writers’ Workshop, the Hollywood Radio & Television Society, and the WGAE Softball Team.
About The Fundamentals of Screenwriting Series
The Fundamentals of Screenwriting with Timothy Michael Cooper is a new WGA East seminar series. This series aims to live up to its name – to teach the fundamentals for screenwriters that need a refresher or journalists looking to learn for the first time.
