Event Details
Monday
February 1, 2021 5:00 pm
via Zoom
RSVP
Your burning questions.
How is our industry changing due to COVID? What SHOULD I be writing right now? Why isn’t my agent calling me back? Why do mediocre projects keep getting made but mine doesn’t? How can I adapt my writing to fit the streamers? How can I feel more fulfilled as a writer every day?
In this “open season” Q&A, you can ask an experienced script consultant (me) anything you like! First I’ll answer the urgent questions that I hear most frequently; then I’ll leave time to answer your pressing (pre-submitted and live) questions as well. Let’s get all the information out there!
Registrants should send questions to the email address specified in the email invitation by Thursday, January 28 in order to be considered for the event. I’ll also try to answer some questions live, but questions submitted ahead of time will be prioritized.
Some of the topics and techniques we’ll cover include:
- The top 6 reasons your screenplay isn’t breaking out
- Foolproof tricks to self-motivate & increase your writing output
- The best way to light a fire under your agent
- A definitive answer to the question, “Are voiceovers good or not?”
- Powerful techniques to avoid the clichés inherent in each genre
- What to do if you want to adapt a story but don’t have the rights
- 10 dilemmas that hold most screenwriters back, but don’t need to
…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 WGA East seminar series that aims to live up to its name – to teach the fundamentals for screenwriters that need a refresher or journalists and other screenwriting novices looking to learn for the first time.
