Screenwriting Workshop
Meets: Wednesdays, 10/2-11/6/2024 on Zoom
Instructor: Michael Graf
Location: Hybrid / On Zoom and live at A Place to Be
There’s no business like show business . . . and there’s no writing like writing for the big screen. Writing a successful screenplay is a completely different beast than writing successful fiction, and requires a different kind of writing discipline and skill.
In this intimate workshop, which will take place on the near east side of Madison, we’ll meet weekly for six two-hour evening sessions and we’ll teach the unique and fundamental building blocks to writing a successful screenplay. We’ll give you the tools needed for writing a screenplay that can actually get read in Hollywood.
During the workshop we’ll discuss the kinds of stories and genres that sell, the importance of log lines, writing for a collaborative art form, how to hook an audience and make them your advocate, writing for the ear, and exploring the importance of balancing character-driven vs. plot-driven storytelling. We’ll also look at the difference between writing features for the big screen and writing episodic series for TV and streamers.
This is a great class not only for aspiring screenwriters, but for narrative fiction writers and memoirists looking to enhance their craft with a focus on character, plot and dialogue or adapt their narrative work for the screen.
Students should come ready to write, to share ideas and to connect with other like-minded writers. Our goal is to help you find your voice as a screenwriter and to give you a working writer’s insight into successfully navigating today’s entertainment industry.
Meets: Wednesdays, 10/2-11/6/2024 on Zoom
Instructor: Michael Graf
Location: Hybrid / On Zoom and live at A Place to Be
There’s no business like show business . . . and there’s no writing like writing for the big screen. Writing a successful screenplay is a completely different beast than writing successful fiction, and requires a different kind of writing discipline and skill.
In this intimate workshop, which will take place on the near east side of Madison, we’ll meet weekly for six two-hour evening sessions and we’ll teach the unique and fundamental building blocks to writing a successful screenplay. We’ll give you the tools needed for writing a screenplay that can actually get read in Hollywood.
During the workshop we’ll discuss the kinds of stories and genres that sell, the importance of log lines, writing for a collaborative art form, how to hook an audience and make them your advocate, writing for the ear, and exploring the importance of balancing character-driven vs. plot-driven storytelling. We’ll also look at the difference between writing features for the big screen and writing episodic series for TV and streamers.
This is a great class not only for aspiring screenwriters, but for narrative fiction writers and memoirists looking to enhance their craft with a focus on character, plot and dialogue or adapt their narrative work for the screen.
Students should come ready to write, to share ideas and to connect with other like-minded writers. Our goal is to help you find your voice as a screenwriter and to give you a working writer’s insight into successfully navigating today’s entertainment industry.
Meets: Wednesdays, 10/2-11/6/2024 on Zoom
Instructor: Michael Graf
Location: Hybrid / On Zoom and live at A Place to Be
There’s no business like show business . . . and there’s no writing like writing for the big screen. Writing a successful screenplay is a completely different beast than writing successful fiction, and requires a different kind of writing discipline and skill.
In this intimate workshop, which will take place on the near east side of Madison, we’ll meet weekly for six two-hour evening sessions and we’ll teach the unique and fundamental building blocks to writing a successful screenplay. We’ll give you the tools needed for writing a screenplay that can actually get read in Hollywood.
During the workshop we’ll discuss the kinds of stories and genres that sell, the importance of log lines, writing for a collaborative art form, how to hook an audience and make them your advocate, writing for the ear, and exploring the importance of balancing character-driven vs. plot-driven storytelling. We’ll also look at the difference between writing features for the big screen and writing episodic series for TV and streamers.
This is a great class not only for aspiring screenwriters, but for narrative fiction writers and memoirists looking to enhance their craft with a focus on character, plot and dialogue or adapt their narrative work for the screen.
Students should come ready to write, to share ideas and to connect with other like-minded writers. Our goal is to help you find your voice as a screenwriter and to give you a working writer’s insight into successfully navigating today’s entertainment industry.
I am thanking my lucky stars that I decided to take this class. Michael is an exceptional teacher; it’s rare to find someone that talented who is also generous and willing to share so much of what he’s learned about writing and the business. I would not change anything about this class. —C.
Michael is empathetic, positive, flexible and gregarious. Honestly, I can’t recommend Michael enough. Additionally, the fundamental tenets of good fiction writing are really no different than good screenplay writing, and so it was wonderful to have Michael affirm this. —Richard