No Excuses: Start That Screenplay NOW!

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Taught by Timothy Cooper

Timothy Michael Cooper is an award-winning writer, director, and improvisor based in Brooklyn. 

He wrote and directed the Writers Guild Award-nominated CONCIERGE: THE SERIES, starring Kate McKinnon. His short comedy LEMON, starring Jennifer Westfeldt, Noah Bean, and Jenn Lyon, premiered at Tribeca, played at dozens of festivals throughout the world as well as on United Airlines and Amazon Prime, and is currently being developed as a sitcom.

At Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in NYC, he created and directed the improvised shows SUNNY-SIDE UP and FAREBEATER: IMPROV IN A CAB, starring cast members like Pete Holmes and Thomas Middleditch. 

Timothy also wrote the feature AWAY FROM HERE, starring Nick Stahl, Alicia Witt, and Ray Wise, now available on Amazon Prime. 

He’s been part of the writers’ room for the Writers Guild Awards for the past six years, writing monologue jokes and sketches for comedians like Lewis Black, Colin Quinn, Larry Wilmore, Amber Ruffin, Michael Ian Black, Roy Wood Jr., and many more.

Through his company, Blueprint Screenwriting Group (blueprintscreenwritinggroup.com), he’s taught hundreds of writers, helping them sell their scripts to major studios; staff on multiple network and cable TV shows; find representation; screen and win at SXSW, Sundance, Tribeca, Cannes, and many more; and get their movies and shows made across the globe.

Timothy is a proud member of the WGAE, the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, and the Hollywood Radio & Television Society.

 

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No more writer's block. No more excuses.

It's 2014. Complete the screenplay you always promised yourself you'd write!

With this 3-night power screenwriting workshop, you'll overcome that fear of Page 1 and make writer's block a thing of the past. Whether you're a first-time writer with a burning idea for a great movie, or you're a more experienced writer who needs to get that new screenplay started (or rebooted), we'll make it all happen right here, right now.

Using innovative brainstorming techniques, intuitive outline templates, and provocative story triggers, you'll write your script's first 10 pages AND complete your whole movie outline in just 3 weeks. Seriously.

You'll learn all of the following tips and tricks, and many more:

• Constructing a blockbuster logline
• "Worst day of your life" story approach
• Screenplay structure basics
• Using the "10-minute minimum" to end writer's block forever
• Character development via the "fatal flaw"
• "List of 100" for conflict development
• "If that, what else?" world-building
• How to write daily even if work or family leave you with no free time

No more simply talking about it. We're getting that idea out of your brain and onto paper NOW!

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