Breakthrough to Screenwriting Success

Breakthrough to Screenwriting Success

Many talented writers fail to find success and fulfilment for reasons that have nothing to do with their skills. They find themselves doing battle with their own minds! From procrastination to fear of failure, it is only too easy to self-sabotage. Too much effort goes into the fight, leaving too little for the job of writing itself.

This inspiring and action-packed one-day workshop will give you effective personal tools to deal with the mental side of writing, equipping you to focus on the skills needed to find the success and satisfaction that you want, and to concentrate your energy on the most important and enjoyable sides of being a creative artist.

The Day

We start by exploring the writer's mind, the roles of a writer's conscious and unconscious and how they work together to create great scripts. We look at unhelpful emotions and work strategies - such as anxiety and self-distraction, difficulties with starting and finishing, lack of focus and lack of creative flexibility.

We also investigate how these inner issues reflect the inner issues that arise in screenplay writing itself, and how understanding your own mind can enrich and deepen the characters and stories that you write in the future.

However, understanding our characters does not mean we have to suffer with them! So, drawing on powerful psychological tools, you will learn techniques that will allow you to transform yourself, enjoyably set and achieve your goals, and reach new standards of excellence in your work.

In the afternoon, you will explore the hidden values that you hold and ensure they strongly support your work. You will learn how to instill the experience and insights of your favourite screenwriters and mentors so that you can effortlessly learn crucial creative skills and use them to discover your individual voice.

The day will be invigorating, inspiring and fun. You will dig deep inside to find resources you did not know you had. You will gain new insights into yourself and you will leave with a new understanding of who you are and how to become the writer that you want to be.

Includes

• Developing powerful motivation
• Setting and achieving effective goals
• Dealing easily with criticism from yourself and others
• Going beyond negative emotions
• Breaking through the boundaries of your own beliefs
• Learning how to transform yourself and create long-term lasting change