Writing Tips and Tricks: How to Write a Winning Screenplay

A detailed, powerful and step-by-step guide: how to write commercially appealing screenplays. From an industry veteran.

Created by: Philip Gladwin
Screenwriter

What Will I Learn?

• Create solid, rounded, memorable characters.
• Construct a story with a solid act structure and a strong emotional punch.
• Write a script with strong commercial possibilities and appeal.
• Use these skills across all forms of dramatic story-telling - the screenplay for TV or Film, the stage, or radio drama.

Requirements

• You'll need a word processor, some kind of spreadsheet software, and a screenplay writing software package. I give you recommendations, both free and commercial, in all three cases.

Target audience

• This course is for any writer who wants to get into writing for the screen. It's a well tested, efficient system for writing a professional level screenplay that people will want to read. It's good for any writer from absolute beginner to intermediate level. In fact, anyone who hasn't sold a couple of screenplays and seen them produced will benefit from taking this course. Writers who have gone beyond that will probably know most of what's in the course - but they may be surprised!