Event Details
Monday
May 3, 2021 5:00 pm
via Zoom
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Best Brainstorming Techniques: Demolish Writers Block Forever
Generating ideas is the writer’s bread and butter—the fuel that makes our industry run. The better we are at brainstorming, the more we can heighten our own work, become an asset in the writers’ room, and be someone everyone wants to work with. This workshop will level-up your brainstorming abilities with tons of mind-expanding games and exercises. Not only will you never be at a loss for ideas ever again, but you’ll be a boon to storytellers everywhere, armed with these ideation superpowers!
Some of the topics and techniques we’ll cover include:
- Jump lightyears ahead of the competition with the “What Would Never Happen?” game
- Transform yourself into a one-person writers’ room with these fun and intuitive tips, tricks, and exercises
- 7 techniques to banish writer’s block from your creative life forever
- Use utterly unrelated film/TV genres to “unique-ify” your premise
- Amp up your success rate…by amping up your failure rate first
- Apply the “1% useful” rule for less judgmental, more productive writing sessions
- 3 foolproof techniques to write more each day with less effort
…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.
Watch the previous installments of the Fundamentals of Screenwriting series here.
