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LA Screenwriting Weekend
Join writers from around the world for an intensive weekend of screenwriting instruction focused on voice, craft, and professional techniques. Under the guidance of top industry educators, you'll learn to push past limitations, unearth your authentic voice, and sharpen your script with pro-level craft that commands reader attention.
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| Location | TBD |
| Pricing | TBD |
| Duration | Flexible timing available |
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Up to people Group size can be changed after booking if needed.
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| Materials | See event description. |
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Description
Getting Past Your Inner Censor
VOICE: Meditative writing & hypnotic techniques to free your voice, create on demand, and find the sweet spot in your writing.
CRAFT: Learn to identify the writing muscles that are strong in you, and strengthen the ones that are weak, to open new levels of your voice.
Unforgettable Character Intros
VOICE: Push the edges to find the most charged first beat of a character, find character nonlinearly through mirrors and foils.
CRAFT: How to land a casting-worthy intro in a few sentences that tells us who we’re meeting and why we care.
Continuously Resonant Dialogue
VOICE: Turning on the tap, unlock electric dialogue by developing your “inner ear” and letting your characters do the hard work for you.
CRAFT: Motivation-by-line, cutting filler, specificity passes, and the “originality test” for dialogue that sparks.
Writing Readers Can Feel
VOICE: From isolated visual moments of action to hypnotic rhythm on the page.
CRAFT: Sentence-level cadence, micro-montage sequencing, and clean visual clarity that actors, directors, and reps love.
Theme, Irony & Hook
VOICE: Dialectics. What you believe vs. what the story does to those beliefs; designing ironic pressure.
CRAFT: Embedding theme in beat choices so the script sells itself, no taglines required.
Exploding Cliche
VOICE: Looking deeper, developing your mind’s eye and your ear for specificity.
CRAFT: A fast rewrite ladder you can run on every scene to turn cliches and tropes into unforgettable moments.
Rewriting With Purpose
VOICE: Learning what’s sacred in your story, and how to protect it.
CRAFT: The scalpel: surgical cut protocol, note-triage, and revision approach that preserves the core while improving everything else.