Fundamentals of Screenwriting: The First 10 Pages Workshop

The First 10 Pages Workshop

The first 10 pages of any script are absolutely vital to get readers attached to your characters, engaged by your premise, and rooting for you as a writer. Here’s how to immediately immerse us in your story via masterful opening lines, gripping action, and powerful images that reassure us we’re in good hands.

Some of the topics and techniques we’ll cover include:

• Immediately pass the “make me care” challenge 
• 10 tips to establish your unique voice within the first few pages 
• The secret to making us root for your lead in just a couple of words! 
• Pose a mystery on page 1 that carries us through to FADE OUT 
• 3 tools to create a fresh, striking, character-driven opening image 
• Use the “breadcrumb” technique to make us hungry to see what happens next

…and a whole lot more. Hope to see you there!

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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.