Free Mini-Camp: Next Friday, July 11th

11am -12:30pm (PST) via zoom only

Higher Learning: 12 Ways to Enhance Your Ideas to Create and Develop a More Viable Script

with Founder Jeffrey Gordon 

PLEASE RSVP HERE

Normally reserved for our Professional Members, we are opening up this Mini-Camp to friends and colleagues to support younger writers during their summer break, as well as seasoned writers looking to develop their next sample in time for next year’s staffing season.

Join Writers Boot Camp founder Jeffrey Gordon as he articulates at least a dozen ways to test your project and make your stories higher concept.

The Mini-Camp referred to as Higher Learning will illustrate the profound impact of curating all the parts of an idea and writing from a more conceptual point of view.  It’s quite an improbable task to develop a complete story if your idea remains incomplete, as is the unfortunate domain of so many newer and experienced writers and filmmakers.

Due to the excitement at the inception of a project and the desire to get work out to friends and contacts there’s a tendency for creative people to skip past the more accurate visualization the work and timeline required, unconsciously not comprehending the true challenges of rewriting.

JG’s Writers Boot Camp material and the discussion will revolve around the most challenging aspect of writing: Full conceptual development and the questions to ask necessary to curate a unique Audience Experience.

Writers working in a vacuum without significant professional experience will naturally miss the many facets of an idea that are rarely expected to be completely explicit within the first few drafts–especially without the depth of understanding of Story Structure–not only for film and TV but applicable to prose projects, books and novels.

Writers Boot Camp alumni have nearly 1000 success stories, including hundreds of major feature films and TV series staffed and created, as well as hundreds of books published. Once having practiced the compact art of writing for the big and small screen, the tools organically enhance storytelling in other traditional forms.

Your Ultimate Role as a Screenwriter

Motivated by personal stories, many new writers also underestimate the professional challenge of creating a multi-dimensional, freshly entertaining and character-driven story for a target audience demographic.

In an idea business, in the development and production of movies, TV, as well as in publishing, the craft of writing goes well beyond an adherence to actual events or even story content. It’s the arrangement of the material and approach to the story that will make it stand out.

There are many questions to start on this journey of professional discovery and distinction:

–Are you writing about something that happened to you, about a stage of life or an incident from your family history?

–Have you identified how that autobiographical event is being adapted in a way never seen before in comparison to other people who have had similar experiences in life?

–Are you writing yet another rom-com based on a slightly clever set-up? Another drama between people talking in rooms? Another arena sitcom? If so, have you explored the many different filters on the character adventure in the middle of the story and numerous options for how the story will complicate?

–Do you have a truly fresh take on a genre that makes your project unique–and justifies the time and investment in writing, let alone asking industry professionals to commit their time to read an early draft?

While we know most early scripts are by default writing samples to attract representation and interest in your creative voice, the industry is a business of ideas.  Even the best writing sample can be enhanced by stronger decisions for highlighting conceptual components and the fresh layer of entertainment.

The insight just from this short session can set your career on a more dynamic trajectory and have a tangible impact on your project selection, rewriting process, manner of emphasis on writing pages–and enhance your visceral understanding of the nature of creativity. While you may be creative in spirit, creativity can only be illustrated by an actual regimen of productivity and the subsequent proof those hours cultivate on paper/screen.

Our Track Record of Success

Writers Boot Camp has been training writers for nearly four decades to accelerate the writing process, cultivate careers and create unique audience experiences that highlight the writer’s originality.

Our successful alumni have won Academy Awards, Emmys, Golden Globes and even the Tony award! Our writers have written screenplays that have brought in close to a billion dollars in box office and have created or staffed countless TV series.

A Mini-Camp is an informative, educational, free event on the most challenging aspects of writing. We offer these free sessions as an ongoing benefit to our current and past Professional Members, as well as a service to our industry friends and opportunity to scout new writers who will benefit from what we do.

If you RSVP and then cannot attend, please let us know in advance. You can send questions for the discussion in advance to jg@writersbootcamp.com.

We always appreciate hearing personal news and breakthroughs, and recent credits by alumni. Feel free to ping JG on LinkedIn–yes, now on social media as of the past month to stay in touch more easily with so many long-time friends and alumni.