Revise Your Script to Sell

Prerequisite: A completed draft or a script you are starting or working on..

This is an intensive and productive workshop aimed at improving your script until it is marketable. You not only receive tips, techniques, and principles to help you revise and polish your script into a compelling work, but you will do it with the market in mind. The four-week online workshop features specific advice, excerpts from many scripts, and weekly homework assignments.

NOTE: Scroll down to the end for the personalized version of the course.

Week 1 -- Revising tools, your final act, and twists. Apply numerous revising tools and make your script more visual, readable, and affecting. What makes your final act work or not work? Re-design the thrilling climax you want, including the surprise twist

Week 2 -- Revising and coloring scenes. Learn the ins and outs of scene structure, scene flow and motivation, revising scenes, and dramatizing cinematic moments. Convert mundane scenes into exciting scenes.

Week 3 -- A marketable script. Learn how to be your own script consultant and evaluate your own work. We'll discuss the specifics of revising dialogue and narrative description (action). Avoid common mistakes screenwriters make and address any screenwriting issues you wish, including formatting.

Week 4 -- Assemble your seven selling tools and learn how to craft queries, one-sheets, and pitches. Create a platforming strategy for yourself and an action plan for your screenplay. Specific sources of useful industry information will be provided. Names of companies and individual producers for your script will not be provided.

Our workshop begins on February 6, 2025.

OUR CLASSROOM

Our online forums are asynchronous. That means we don't meet at a specific time, but you can check into class anytime it's convenient 24/7. Learn at your convenience and schedule.

You will have access to the class forums, course materials, and resources for two weeks after the end date of the workshop.

FEEDBACK ON ASSIGNMENTS

Assignments may be submitted early or late or not at all; you can work at your own pace. Here is a list of homework assignments:

Week 1 -- Answer crucial questions about your final act.
Week 2 -- Choose one of several provided scenes and revise it.
Week 3 -- Submit any five pages from your own revised screenplay.
Week 4 -- Submit a query letter or one-sheet.

ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Dave Trottier has sold or optioned ten screenplays (three produced) and helped hundreds of writers break into the writing business. He is an in-demand script consultant, award-winning teacher, and author of The Screenwriter’s Bible and seven other books. More.

CLASS PERKS

My evaluation of your homework assignments would normally cost you about $325. The cost of this course is only $195. I know you can do the math!

If you registered for the previous two courses in the "Write a Showcase Script" series, you will receive a $100 discount from any complete script evaluation.

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REGISTER FOR THE COURSE

Registration Fee: Only $195. For you only $165

The four weeks run from February 6 to March 5, 2025. Specific instructions and your password will be emailed to you after you register.

PERSONALIZED VERSION OF THE COURSE

If you can't take the course on the date offered and want to take it now, register for the course and request "individualized version" on the order form or via email. You will receive the same individualized attention and weekly class materials as in the classroom version, but you will not have access to the posts of other writers and myself that would normally appear in the interactive classroom forums. Email me with any questions.

Required reading for both versions of the course: The Screenwriter's Bible

Email me with any questions about the course.