Industry Interview Nancey Silvers
Alumnus Nancey Silvers, Writer and Creator, Hallmark’s Chesapeake Shores, WILLIAM AND KATE, ELIAZABETH SMART STORY.
Nancey Silvers, a Writers Boot Camp alumni, wrote her feature script on JG’s couch, which was set up numerous times as she also adapted it for television, and even then, Nancey deftly extended her ideas for stronger impact and impressed producers and executives at meetings on her clever project variations.
| “I speak to so many people who want to know how to have a career writing film and television…. Having had a long career, I can say without question that taking WRITERS BOOT CAMP with Jeff Gordon is the best way to start. It is how I began my career and he taught me the building blocks of writing a script. More importantly he taught me how to finish a script. Fear and judgement will be in your way until you learn that writing is rewriting. His class, his workshops are the best way to start.” -Nancey Silvers
Nancey Silvers, creator and writer of Hallmark’s series Chesapeake Shores, has written and produced dozens of movies for television, including WILLIAM AND KATE and the ELIZABETH SMART STORY. A Writers Boot Camp alumnus, she started her career as an actor and segued to become a writer in all formats, expanding her wonderful range of performance to spontaneously wax poetically during pitch meetings, turning story set-ups into more complete frameworks for satisfying and inspired stories. More recently, she just completed writing an Alzheimer’s love story, LOVE AGAIN and is currently developing a television series about “sisters from different misters”. As Nancey told JG after committing to speak and share her fantastic insight once again with our alumni community, “Most of what I’ve written is original. I create stories with high concepts. It’s an asset in writing to pitch a story that one can see easily. Any concept can become a high concept. Most writers come to me for help with story ideas. The key is to make a point and to have something to say. Then twist the idea a new way with original characters. I always ask myself what a character is in therapy for. That way you get a rich background and something important for that character to have to work through.” For more info about Writers Boot Camp you can call 310/998-1199, check out writersbootcamp.com, or email jg@writersbootcamp.com We always love to hear from alumni with news and success stories! |