For my UK friends (and other Scotophiles), I'm doing a weekend intensive in the Highlands, on the gorgeous, unique grounds of the Pagoda in Grantown-on-Spey. You can stay the whole weekend on site in a lodge with indoor swimming pool, or there are day pass options as well.
Information and registration
November 3-10: Eastern Caribbean Writing Cruise
Join me on the luxury liner Allure of the Seas for a writing retreat/Caribbean cruise!
Cruising Writers is hosting this seven-day cruise to St. Kitts and St. Thomas, with a two-day workshop and individual problem-solving sessions, Q and A sessions, and of course shore excursions and all the amenities that the Allure has to offer. Check out the Cruising Writers website for information, itinerary and registration.
About the workshops:
STEALING
HOLLYWOOD: Screenwriting Tricks for Authors
Award-winning
author/screenwriter Alexandra Sokoloff's internationally acclaimed Screenwriting
Tricks for Authors story structure workshops and workbooks use movies
to teach authors and screenwriters essential film structure and visual
storytelling techniques, and have helped hundreds of aspiring authors to
publishing deals and professional authors to craft better books.
This
two-day masterclass will illuminate the Three-Act, Eight-Sequence structure of
film writing and how to use it to plot your book idea and/or rewrite your novel
to make it the best book it can be - and have the most fun you’ve ever had doing
it!
DAY ONE
Hour 1:
The Three-Act, Eight Sequence Structure
In the
first hour to hour and a half of the workshop we’ll cover the basics of the
Three-Act, Eight-Sequence story structure of film and television and how/why
it’s so useful to translate it to writing novels.
Even
die-hard pantsers quickly grasp that this is a rhythm of storytelling they’re
intimately familiar with, from all the tens of thousands of movies and TV shows
we’ve seen in our lifetimes (scary, isn’t it?).
Even
more than that, editors, agents and our readers subconsciously EXPECT this
rhythm/story pattern. So if we authors don’t deliver, a reader quickly gets
uncomfortable that there’s something wrong. We all know this pattern. I’m just
putting names to the steps and making it all conscious.
Also in
this introductory hour or two I break down the concept of Setpiece
Scenes – one of the most useful visual storytelling tricks we can
steal from movies.
And I
go over The Index Card Method/Story Structure Grid method of
plotting (or rewriting/emergency help if you’re a pantser!).
For the
rest of the day we’ll go through ALL the Key Story Elements of each Act, and
how every one of these 20+ elements appears in approximately the same act, no
matter what genre the writer is working with. I’ll tailor examples to your genre
and movie preferences.
- Elements of Act I
- Elements of Act II: part 1
- Elements of Act II: part 2
- Elements of Act III
DAY
TWO:
On
Day 2 we put what we’ve learned into action with a Movie Screening. We’ll
watch a movie while I talk through it, pointing out all the Key Story
Elements and how they work, along with Filmmaking Tricks that
authors can steal for their books. This fun and hugely helpful session locks in the
story structure concepts and teaches authors to use their favorite movies as
writing guides.
For the
rest of the day we’ll go further into the story elements as well as focus more
in-depth on visual techniques. The workshops are very interactive, with
questions encouraged throughout.
Get
ready for the journey of a writing lifetime!
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All the information on this blog and more, including full story structure breakdowns of various movies, is available in my Screenwriting Tricks for Authors workbooks. e format, just $3.99 and $2.99; print 13.99.
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You can also sign up to get free movie breakdowns here:
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All the information on this blog and more, including full story structure breakdowns of various movies, is available in my Screenwriting Tricks for Authors workbooks. e format, just $3.99 and $2.99; print 13.99.
STEALING HOLLYWOOD
This new workbook updates all the text in the first Screenwriting Tricks for Authors ebook with all the many tricks I’ve learned over my last few years of writing and teaching—and doubles the material of the first book, as well as adding six more full story breakdowns.
WRITING LOVE
Writing Love is a shorter version of the workbook, using examples from love stories, romantic suspense, and romantic comedy - available in e formats for just $2.99.
- Smashwords (includes online viewing and pdf file)
- Amazon/Kindle
- Barnes & Noble/Nook
- Amazon UK
- Amazon DE
This new workbook updates all the text in the first Screenwriting Tricks for Authors ebook with all the many tricks I’ve learned over my last few years of writing and teaching—and doubles the material of the first book, as well as adding six more full story breakdowns.
STEALING HOLLYWOOD ebook $3.99
STEALING HOLLYWOOD US print $14.99
STEALING HOLLYWOOD print, all countries
STEALING HOLLYWOOD US print $14.99
STEALING HOLLYWOOD print, all countries
WRITING LOVE
Writing Love is a shorter version of the workbook, using examples from love stories, romantic suspense, and romantic comedy - available in e formats for just $2.99.
- Smashwords (includes online viewing and pdf file)- Amazon/Kindle
- Barnes & Noble/Nook
- Amazon UK
- Amazon DE
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You can also sign up to get free movie breakdowns here:
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