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Breaking into Copywriting: Use your Creativity to Kick-Start a New Career

  • Creator: Writers University
  • Course Price: $249.00

Whether you’re an aspiring screenwriter or novelist, you can turn your love for words into a lucrative career as a copywriter.

Screenwriting Basics

  • Creator: Writers University
  • Course Price: $49.95

Based on our popular Introduction to Screenwriting course, Screenwriting Basics will teach you everything you need to know to start your screenplay.

Writing the Screenplay Treatment

  • Creator: Writers University
  • Course Price: $199.00

Let Writers University show you, step-by-step, how to create an electrifying treatment that is sure to spark a Hollywood bidding war on your script!

Beginning Television Writing

  • Creator: William Rabkin
  • Course Price: $149.95

Two established executive producers/showrunners - William Rabkin and Lee Goldberg - will give you an inside look at the world of episodic television.

Creating Characters Who Bring Your Story to Life

  • Creator: Rachel Ballon
  • Course Price: $199.95

Psychologist, script consultant, and author Rachel Ballon, PhD, teaches successful secrets for creating great characters.

Foundations of Screenwriting

  • Creator: Michael Tierno
  • Course Price: $129.95

Based on Tierno's book ARISTOTLE'S POETICS FOR SCREENWRITERS, this course takes you from concept to log line, treatment and finished screenplay.

From Rejection to Acceptance: The Most Common Mistakes Fiction Writers Make When Approaching an Agent

  • Creator: Noah Lukeman
  • Course Price: $249.95

Noah Lukeman, literary agent and author of two bestselling books on writing, teaches the essentials for any writer serious about getting published.

How to Sell your Script

  • Creator: Evan Smith
  • Course Price: $149.95

How to sell scripts, pitch stories, and land writing jobs — the secrets to launching a successful screenwriting career!

Introduction to Playwriting

  • Creator: Jonathan Dorf
  • Course Price: $129.95

Master the basics of writing for the stage with expert playwright Jonathan Dorf. You'll be writing your first play in four short weeks!

Mastering the Essential Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters

  • Creator: Karl Iglesias
  • Course Price: $129.95

Most classes teach what to do and what not to do; this course will outline HOW to develop habits to more joyful writing and better scripts.

Pitch & Presentation: Everything You Need to Know to Sell Your Script

  • Creator: Kathie Fong Yoneda
  • Course Price: $129.95

Author/seminar leader Kathie Fong Yoneda provides the necessary pitching tools to help you successfully navigate your ideas through Tinsel Town.

Proper Formatting Technique: How to Create a Compelling and Professional Screenplay

  • Creator: David Trottier
  • Course Price: $129.95

Let Dave Trottier (Dr. Format himself) show you the necessary techniques and currently accepted standards to set your script apart.

Storytelling: How To Write Stories That Will Grab And Hold Your Audience

  • Creator: Thomas Sawyer
  • Course Price: $249.95

Successful Screenwriter/Novelist Tom Sawyer’s theory-free approach will get your Movie, Novel, Memoir or Short-story going in the right direction.

Writing Dialogue for Emotional Impact: Crafting Fresh Dialogue That Snaps, Crackles and Pops Off the Page

  • Creator: Karl Iglesias
  • Course Price: $199.95

Learn dialogue techniques from successful screenwriters that turn bland, on-the-nose dialogue into speech that snaps, crackles and pops off the page.

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Upcoming Sessions

Breaking into Copywriting: Use your Creativity to Kick-Start a New Career

  • Session: Mar 15 - Apr 09
  • Enrollment: Jan 17 - Mar 15

Screenwriting Basics

  • Session: Mar 15 - Apr 09
  • Enrollment: Jan 17 - Mar 15

Mastering the Essential Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters

  • Session: Mar 15 - Apr 09
  • Enrollment: Feb 17 - Mar 15

Testimonials

Breaking into Copywriting was very informative, chock-full of useful approaches and commercial resources for independent copywriters.

- Diane Liberman

Just wanted you to know that by taking Screenwriting Basics, the information shared with me and the guidance I received is priceless.

- Nancy Schiller