Event Details
Monday
February 7, 2022 5:00 pm
via Zoom
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Diagnose Your Screenwriting Weaknesses... Then Demolish Them!
No matter what your experience level, preferred genre, or strongest skill, everyone has some weaker aspects of their writing. Those might include outlining, character arcs, dialogue, structure, endings, Act 2, punchlines, or a host of other issues. Learn how to instantly recognize those areas of concern, then turn them into strengths—making yourself a superb all-around writer.
Some of the topics and techniques we’ll cover include:
- 2 simple quizzes that’ll reveal your own blind spots…and your secret strengths
- The key difference between “unlikable” and “unrootable” characters—why one is box-office gold and the other is studio poison
- Eliminate these 10 all-too-common screenplay gimmicks ASAP
- Make the (almost universally reviled) outlining process one of your superpowers in the room
- Turn the behemoth of Act 2 into the most eagerly anticipated section of your script
- Games to transform your scenes from laborious backstory into sellable setpieces
- 3 entertaining exercises to unleash an unforgettable lead—and an equally memorable antagonist
…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.
