Live Webinar – CHARACTER-DRIVEN: How to Write the Role of a Lifetime
Learn through numerous examples the process of creating exciting and multi-faceted characters who will attract film industry professionals and jumpstart your writing career.
Hollywood is always on the lookout for well-written characters that jump off the script page. From A-List actors and directors to producers and investors – everyone in Tinseltown knows that compelling characters are the currency to a successful film career. In this webinar, screenwriters will learn through numerous examples the process of creating exciting and multi-faceted characters who will attract film industry professionals and jumpstart their writing career.
Film audiences love their favorite heroes and love to hate their favorite villains. But few beginning screenwriters take the time to really flesh out their main characters. This webinar will enlighten the process of creating an all-encompassing backstory that will inform the cinematic journey of a memorable character. Equally important, this webinar will share the tricks of the trade in how much to share with the audience over the course of that character’s story arc, so audiences will stay engaged and want to keep turning the script page.
Join Jon James Miller, award-winning screenwriter, novelist, and professional story editor, to learn how to write a story rich with fully-realized characters that come alive through narrative techniques intended to engage readers and keep them reading. Jon will also show how to remove unnecessary backstory that can slow down or stop a reader, no matter what the genre. Writers will come away from this webinar with a “character cheat-sheet” that consists of critical questions to building out well-rounded character-arcs, whether they are heroes or villains.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:
- Narrative techniques to creating compelling and cinematic characters
- How to find your character’s unique voice and internal motivation
- Create a character that captures the imagination of your audience
- How to engage and keep a reader guessing the true nature of a character
- Strategies to build reader empathy for even the worst fictional villain
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- Writers who want to take their storytelling craft to the next level
- Screenwriters who want to create characters that will attract A-List talent
- Writers who want to create a script with franchise potential using great characters
- Novelists who want to successfully adapt their characters into the screenplay format
- Screenwriters who want to increase their chances of selling a screenplay by creating compelling main characters based on true stories
Learn from an expert instructor!
Jon James Miller started his Hollywood career as a script reader for producers at 20th Century Fox Studios, Paramount Pictures, and MGM Studios. Jon co-wrote Adapting Sideways: How To Turn Your Screenplay Into A Publishable Novel (Komenar Publishing), which chronicled the process of adapting his award-winning screenplay into a novel. Jon’s debut novel, Looking For Garbo, was published by Amphorae Publishing Group in 2019. Jon has been featured in Creative Screenwriting Magazine, and is a frequent contributor to SCRIPT Magazine. He is represented by Agent Jill Marr at Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency.
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