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Powerful Endings to Hook Your Reader

DAVE TROTTIER

Powerful Endings to Hook Your Reader

DAVE TROTTIER

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Hook your readers with a powerful ending that will convert them into fans of your screenplay. All's well that ends well, and it's your ending that leaves that lasting impression on readers. Regardless of your genre, your ending is also the secret to a captivating beginning, and “writing backwards” is only one of many tools you will be handed to craft your powerful ending.

Write as you learn in this unique course that provides instruction, tips, online discussion, and relevant homework assignments, including an evaluation of pages from your ending. Examples from a wide variety of classic, popular, and highly acclaimed screenplays will be used to clarify principles and techniques as you design and write your powerful ending.

Learn from The Sixth Sense, The Usual Suspects, and The King's Speech, as well as The Godfather, The Shawshank Redemption, Galaxy Quest, Planet of the Apes, Psycho, Casablanca, Some Like it Hot, and more.  

Join the Waitlist

Subscribe to be notified when this course opens for registration.

Hook your readers with a powerful ending that will convert them into fans of your screenplay. All's well that ends well, and it's your ending that leaves that lasting impression on readers. Regardless of your genre, your ending is also the secret to a captivating beginning, and “writing backwards” is only one of many tools you will be handed to craft your powerful ending.

Write as you learn in this unique course that provides instruction, tips, online discussion, and relevant homework assignments, including an evaluation of pages from your ending. Examples from a wide variety of classic, popular, and highly acclaimed screenplays will be used to clarify principles and techniques as you design and write your powerful ending.

Learn from The Sixth Sense, The Usual Suspects, and The King's Speech, as well as The Godfather, The Shawshank Redemption, Galaxy Quest, Planet of the Apes, Psycho, Casablanca, Some Like it Hot, and more.  

Course outline

Course outline

Each session includes a written lecture and a writing assignment to turn in for personalized feedback from your instructor.

Meet the instructor

Dave Trottier

Dave Trottier has sold or optioned several screenplays and developed projects for The Walt Disney Company, Hill Fields (for ABC), among others (some titles: Igor’s Revenge, The New Musketeers, A Window in Time, Hercules Recycled, The Penny Promise, and A Summer with Hemingway’s Twin.) As a script consultant and teacher, he has helped clients and students sell their work, break into the biz, and win contests, including two Nicholl Fellowships. His book, The Screenwriter’s Bible is now in its seventh edition and is a top seller. He was honored with the Distinguishing Teaching Award by the University of Phoenix and has taught writing courses, workshops, and seminars at over 30 American universities. He has written his “Ask Dr. Format” column for Script magazine since 1989 and is the friendly host of keepwriting.com.

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