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The Story Forge: Supercharge Your Work With These Story-Building Secrets with Speaker Jordan Morris 

This Saturday - 8/19

Learn how to elevate your work with this new and innovative development process that will teach you the secrets of an impactful character arc, how to effectively deploy theme, structure organically, and create a powerful triangle of conflict between three central characters.

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Social Virtual Networking Event –  August 6th

Don’t forget to sign up!

Do you need an accountability partner with your writing? Need some new ideas to help you continue writing? Just want to network and meet new friends and/or contacts? What’s stopping you from networking with us?

Find more info here.

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Upcoming Event:

Prewrite – Webinar

|| Webinar Event Date: Saturday, September 19, 2020 ||

|| Speaker: David Rogers ||

|| Start time: 1:00 pm PST ||

If you can’t see how your story develops, how do you know if it’s any good?

Any screenwriter can improve the quality of their story by using Prewrite, because it visualizes the script.

Upcoming Event:

Prewrite – Webinar

|| Webinar Event Date: Saturday, September 19, 2020 ||

|| Speaker: David Rogers ||

|| Start time: 1:00 pm PST ||

If you can’t see how your story develops, how do you know if it’s any good?

Any screenwriter can improve the quality of their story by using Prewrite, because it visualizes the script.

When you see how your content develops in relation to tried and true story structure, you can quickly and easily improve your work:

More confidence in your content’s quality

More impact in every piece of content

More organized workflows

Less time spent rewriting

Less money wasted on ineffective campaigns

Less time wondering why your work goes unnoticed

For more information on this event, please click here.

When you see how your content develops in relation to tried and true story structure, you can quickly and easily improve your work:

More confidence in your content’s quality

More impact in every piece of content

More organized workflows

Less time spent rewriting

Less money wasted on ineffective campaigns

Less time wondering why your work goes unnoticed

For more information on this event, please click here.

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The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.

Henry Ford

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Creative Writing Challenge – Part 2 –   April

This MONTHLY challenge is for those who want to work on writing new ideas and who would like to maintain a continuous creativity flow with your writing.

Creatively writing short films are a great way to get started/or extend the passion in your career as a writer. A good short film can further help you develop your style and vision using story, drama, dialog, and imagery.

Find out more here.

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Have you checked out our website lately?

We hope you will take a few minutes to view our website and see everything we have going on as well as our upcoming and past events and, information we provide for our members.

Take a look at our website here.

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The more words you stuff into a log line, the less impact it has.

Pilar Alessandra / On the Page ®  200 Writing Tips

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Saturday’s event:  

Pitching You in your Written Pitch Document (for TV)

|| Webinar Event Date: Saturday, October 17, 2020 ||

|| Speaker: Terry McFadden ||

|| Start time: 1:00 pm PST ||

This event will discuss the topic of constructing the Written Pitch Document/Show Bible for a TV series.  Not only how to make it great including all of the elements to prove it could go many seasons but how to make it your own–in your unique voice and style; the foundation of the episodes to follow.

The webinar would, of course, cover all of the components that are necessary in this pitch document such as the concept page, premise, personal statement, series unanswerable question, character bios, pilot synopsis, additional episode loglines, the story engine, season arc and a summarizing wrap.

Terry McFadden is an award-winning Script Doctor, Writing Coach and the founder of ‘Story Builders Script Doctor and Writing Services’.  He is dedicated to helping TV Writers and Screenwriters find and hone their own unique voice bringing the heart and soul of “their story” to the page in ways that only they can.

For more information on this Speaker and to register for this event, please click here.

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SWN’s High Concept Screenplay Program (HCSP) ~ Regular Deadline: July 31, 2020.

Submissions are now OPEN!

Regular Deadline: July 31, 2020

DESCRIPTION:

The High Concept Screenplay Program welcomes all genres and aims to discover, honor and reward different approaches, eclectic points of view and unique voices in screenwriting. A high concept screenplay:

has a great premise – the idea is king (e.g. “Big”)

has a memorable title – it conveys what the movie is about (e.g. “Wedding Crashers”)

has a visual logline – you can see the movie (e.g. “40 Year Old Virgin”)

has universal appeal – all demographics “get it” (e.g. “Star Trek”)

has clear conflicts, high stakes, a hook, a ticking clock and/ or a twist (e.g. “Liar Liar”)

has a succinct, descriptive “pitch” of 25 words or less (e.g. “Seven, Home Alone”)

For more detailed information, please click here.

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Creative Writing Challenge – November  

This MONTHLY challenge is for those who want to work on writing new ideas and who would like to maintain a continuous creativity flow with your writing.

Find out more here.

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Social Virtual Networking Event –  October 2nd - Sunday.

SWN’s Social Virtual Networking Event is a networking event. You do not need to be a member of SWN or have a finish project to attend and/or participate. Please be prepared and ready to network with others.

Find more info here.

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Social Virtual Networking Event –  August 6th

Don’t forget to sign up!

Do you need an accountability partner with your writing? Need some new ideas to help you continue writing? Just want to network and meet new friends and/or contacts? What’s stopping you from networking with us?

Find more info here.

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Speaker Marilyn R. Atlas 7/17 - Virtually

Creating Non-Stereotypical, Three-Dimensional Characters

You will learn the power of subtext: how to embed details of motivation—thoughts, wants, goals, secrets, flaws, and delusions—into physical behavior, speech patterns, and specific habits that echo throughout your story.

More info here.

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Speaker Marilyn R. Atlas 7/17 - Virtually

Creating Non-Stereotypical, Three-Dimensional Characters

Some writers talk about creating connections with their characters so deep that the characters feel like real people. But how do you bring memorable, three-dimensional characters to life enough to make that connection? Find out in this class.

More info here.

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Upcoming event:

One-On-One with Writer and Story Editor Stephie Theodora

|| Event Date: Saturday, November 14, 2020 ||

|| Speaker: Stephie Theodora ||

|| Start time: 1:00 pm PST ||

This event will discuss a variety of topics, including: story editing, writing for games and theatre plays, the Speaker’s story, writing strong characters, creating a compelling premise and/or story, finding your voice, script development, writer’s vision, past projects, among many other topics.  

Stephie Theodora is a Canadian/EU award-winning stage, game and television writer. Her plays have been produced internationally across North America, Europe and Asia. For games, she’s written for hit titles such as Pearl’s Peril and Bubble Island 2. For TV, she has written for series such as BAFTA-nominated Danger Mouse, Littlest Pet Shop and Gummy Bear and Friends as well as freelanced for Mattel, Warner Brothers, Disney and The Jim Henson Company.

Currently, she is the story editor of the action-packed third season of Robot Trains on Netflix.

For more information on this Speaker, event and to register, please click here.