Getting Your Hands Dirty: Craft Challenges to Level-Up Your Fiction

Marguerite Sheffer

NOVEMBER 12  |  1:00 PM ET

This live webinar moves beyond “theory” and advice to engage writers in concrete, repeatable writing challenges that stretch skills while helping to uncover your unique voice. This live webinar addresses common writing “pain points” and ways to tackle them via low-stakes (and fun!) craft exercises. We’ll try them out together, share our learnings, and lock-in our breakthroughs. We’ll mimic model texts and try-on different styles.

Build a Better Bio (It Matters More Than You Think)

Jane Friedman

NOVEMBER 19, 2026  |  1:00 PM ET

In this live webinar, Jane will show you how to think about your bio as a strategic tool rather than an afterthought. You'll learn the different types of bios every working writer needs, how to adapt your bio for different platforms and purposes without starting from scratch each time, and how to avoid the common mistakes that miss an opportunity to connect with readers and other writing and publishing professionals.

The Sweet 16! The Only Tool You’ll Ever Use Again To Create Characters

Jennifer Dornbush

DECEMBER 3, 2026  |  4:00 PM ET

In this live webinar, you’ll gain 16 short and sweet tools to create enduring, popular, living and breathing characters. PRE-REQUISITE: Once you sign up for the live webinar, you will receive a feature-length script for review prior to the live webinar.

Hybrid Publishing Versus Self-Publishing: Which Is Best for Your Project?

Jane Friedman

DECEMBER 10, 2026 |  1:00 PM ET

Noted publishing expert Jane Friedman covers everything you need to know about the self-publishing, hybrid publishing, and paid publishing services landscape, in plain English. You’ll come away with a clear picture of how these companies work, how they differ from each other, and how it all compares to what professional, self-publishing authors do.

From Research to Representation: What Every Writer Should Know About Literary Agents

Maria Vicente

DECEMBER 17  |  1:00 PM ET

This live webinar covers everything you need to know about literary agents: how they fit into the publishing ecosystem, what a literary agent can (and can’t) do for you, how to research literary agents strategically, how to evaluate whether a literary agent is the right fit for you, and how to establish and maintain a positive author/agent business relationship.

How to Get Published: Land a Book Deal in 2027

Jane Friedman

JANUARY 7, 2027 |  1:00-3:00 PM ET

This intensive and information-filled 2-hour live webinar helps you think like an industry insider who makes decisions every day on what work merits the investment of a publisher. You’ll get practical advice to help you meet these challenges, avoid mistakes with your submission materials, and give yourself an advantage over those who don’t understand the current market environment or what it takes to interest an agent or secure a publisher.

The Synopsis Class: Your Book’s Structural X-Ray

Jessica Berg

JANUARY 21, 2027 |  1:00 PM ET

This live webinar teaches writers how to write the first draft of their synopsis and how to read that draft the way an agent does, so you can find the places where your plot stalls, skips a step, or leans on coincidence.

Curating a Persona In Memoir + Essay: When the Character is You

Jordan Rosenfeld

JANUARY 28, 2027  |  1:00 PM ET

Drawn from Jordan Rosenfeld’s book The Sound of Story: Developing Voice and Tone in Writing and her experience as a well-published essayist and novelist, this live webinar will hand you practical tools for putting your “self” on the page exactly as you intend.

Get Your Author Brand in Order

Jane Friedman

FEBRUARY 4, 2027  |  1:00 PM ET

In this live webinar by longtime publishing industry expert Jane Friedman, she will show you how building a brand is ultimately a creative exercise that often involves telling a story about yourself. And fortunately, brand is not a static thing, just like your career is not a static thing (or let’s hope not). It is organic, evolving, and even unpredictable.

Agent One-on-One: First 10 Pages Boot Camp

The Talcott Notch Literary Agency

JANUARY 21-24, 2027

In this invaluable event, you'll get to work with an agent to review and refine the first ten pages of your novel or non-fiction book.

5th Annual Nonfiction Writing Virtual Conference

NOVEMBER 14, 2026

FOUR award-winning and bestselling nonfiction writers will provide expert insights on the finer points of writing nonfiction. Spend the day learning techniques for honing your craft from four different bestselling nonfiction authors.

Historical Fiction Virtual Conference

DECEMBER 11–DECEMBER 13, 2026 

On December 11 - 13, our WDU Historical Fiction Virtual Conference will provide expert insights from bestselling historical fiction authors. Spend the weekend learning techniques for honing your craft.

Novel Writing Virtual Conference

JANUARY 29-31, 2027

Start your 2027 with an exclusive virtual conference for novel writers, featuring SEVEN unique presentations from award-winning novelists.

12 Weeks to a First Draft

Mark Spencer | Terri Valentine

Dive into the world of writing and learn all 12 steps needed to complete a first draft. In this writing course you will tackle the steps to writing a book, learn effective writing techniques along the way, and of course, begin writing your first draft.

21 Days to Your Novel Outline and Synopsis

Bryan Young

This course is designed to help you understand how to craft a winning premise, how to outline your novel, and then how to take both of those things and assemble a synopsis that will act as a guide for you to write your novel and sell it.

Advanced Novel Writing

Mark Spencer | Terri Valentine

Push yourself beyond your comfort zone and take your writing to new heights with this novel writing course, designed specifically for novelists who are looking for detailed feedback on their work. When you take this online course, you won't have weekly reading assignments or lectures. Instead, you'll get to focus solely on completing your novel.

The Anti-Hero's Journey for Storytellers

Gloria Kempton

Drawing from Joseph Campbell’s monomyth, this course is about the Anti-Hero archetype. Most of the time this character would be your story’s antagonist, but he can also make an intriguing protagonist if you can probe deeply enough what motivates and drives him. This is the dark side of the Hero’s Journey.

The Art of Storytelling 102: Showing vs. Telling

Terri Valentine

Learn the differences between showing and telling, how to use dialogue to convey information, how much setting description is necessary, how to avoid information dumps, and more!

Beginning Feature Film Writing: Complete Course

Donald H Hewitt

This 12-week course guides students through the process of building a feature film script, starting with an outline and continuing through all the acts of your screenplay. You will get expert guidance on your writing along the way, and helpful self-tests allow you to reinforce your mastery of the lecture content.

Book Coaching for Advanced Writers

Mark Spencer

Are you ready to take the next step toward a final draft of your novel? This course is for you! Join Mark Spencer in an intensive 16-week coaching session focused entirely on your novel in progress.

Build Your Novel Scene by Scene

Mark Spencer

If you want to learn how to write a story, this is the course for you. Get the impetus, the guidance, the support, and the deadline you need to finally stop talking, start writing, and, ultimately, complete that novel you always said you wanted to write.

Character Development: Creating Memorable Characters

Sharon Short

Learn how to create believable fiction characters and construct scenes with emotional depth and range. You'll discover character development techniques and tips along with practical advice for weaving emotion into scenes

Comp Titles Intensive: The Essential Tool That Can Launch Your Career

Amy Collins 

This one-week intensive will walk you through the process of finding comparable titles and authors. The class covers what the industry uses comps for and why they are so important. Then it shows HOW to find the titles with the best sales numbers by using readily accessible online tools.

Copyediting Certificate Program

Kim Catanzarite

Writer's Digest is proud to offer our Copyediting Certificate Program. This course will provide training for aspiring copy editors in order to give them practical and marketable workplace skills. As a student in this certification course, you will progress from the fundamentals of grammar, form, and composition to advanced copyediting skills.

Copyediting Practice for The Chicago Manual of Style

Kim Catanzarite

This is a five-week course for those who have learned the basic rules of The Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) and would like to put them into practice and receive feedback on their work.

Creative Writing 101

Ran Walker

Are you one of those people who have thought, “I’d like to write a book someday, but I don’t know where to start”? If yes, then this is the course for you. All you need is to open yourself up and allow your ideas to flow.

Description: Bring Your Writing to Life

Sharon Short

Learn how to effectively use descriptive techniques to elevate your writing into an immersive reading experience for your readers, including agents and editors.

Email Newsletters for Writers

Dan Blank

If you are hoping to grow your platform as a writer, and have been discouraged by the ways social media has changed, email newsletters are a powerful tool to develop. This course is packed with actionable strategies, clear examples, and advice that comes from in-the-trenches experience with writers.

Fearless Writing

William Kenower

In this workshop, we’ll look at several techniques you can you use to keep yourself in the creative flow and out of the trouble and misery fear always causes. This course is offering you a transformative experience. Don't miss out!

First Impressions: From Manuscript to Submission

Nikoletta Gjoni

What does it take to hook an agent? An editor? Over the span of four weeks, you’ll learn how to write with intention, how to self-edit your work, and how to determine when your pages are ready for an editor’s (or agent’s) eyes.

Flash to a Novel: Publishing Short Fiction and Laying the Foundation for a Novel

Mark Spencer

In Flash to a Novel, learn to write powerful, emotionally resonant flash fiction for submission to journals and acquire the skills to build a novel through the meticulous selection and accumulation of details while embracing the process of discovery.

Focus on the Short Story

Mark Spencer

This online course is for anyone writing any kind of short fiction. You will draft and complete two stories. There are no restrictions on topics or genre.  All aspects of writing engaging short stories are covered—plot, character, setting, theme, style.

Form and Composition

Kelly Boyer Sagert

Proper grammar, punctuation, and mechanics make your writing correct. In order to truly write well, you must also master the art of form and composition. From sentence structure to polishing your prose, this course will enhance your writing, no matter what type of writing you do.

From Idea to Logline: Clarify Your Concept Before You Draft

Jessica Berg

This course will teach you to use the logline as a tool to find out whether your concept is actually ready. If you can write one sentence that says who wants what, what's in the way, and what it costs if they fail, your concept has enough staying power to sustain a narrative.

Getting Started in Writing

Estelle Erasmus | Terri Valentine

Have you always wanted to be a writer? Don't let doubt or fear get the best of you—take a chance and learn how to start writing a book, novel, short story, memoir, or essay. In this course, you'll discover your voice, learn the basics of grammar and examine the different types of writing.

Grammar and Mechanics

Kelly Boyer Sagert

Do you remember the difference between the 8 parts of speech and how to use them? Are you comfortable with punctuation and mechanics? No matter what type of writing you do, mastering the fundamentals of grammar and mechanics is an important first step to having a successful writing career.

Grammar and Mechanics 201

Kelly Boyer Sagert

As you become more confident in your grammar and punctuation usage, you can reverse-engineer phrases, sentences, and paragraphs, gaining clarity over their structural skeleton. Emboldened with this information, your writing will naturally become clearer and more engaging.

The Hero's Journey for Storytellers

Gloria Kempton

This course is about identifying the story you want to write, deciding whether you want to approach your story through fiction or nonfiction, and then having the courage to say yes to the “call to adventure” and move into the “special world” of The Hero’s Journey.

Leap, and the Net Will Appear: Steps for Creating Positive Change in Your Writing Life

Katrina Kittle

This course focuses on creating positive change, developing a habit, and building momentum on a goal, with very clear, very practical ideas for making sure "writing a novel" or "finishing your book" isn't a resolution you just keep making year after year, but actually accomplish.

Making True Stories Real: Bringing Nonfiction to Life

Mark Spencer

Readers love true stories—even if the truth exists only to a certain degree and gets stretched some (or a lot). Regardless of whether you’re trying to adhere strictly to what really happened or you’re wanting to capture an audience with a story based on or inspired by actual events, you need to know how to make the story “real.”

Novel Writing Toolkit

Bryan Young

Writing a novel can be a long and arduous process, taking weeks, months, or even years of work. How can you maintain your momentum, enthusiasm, and thoughts all moving in the same direction over the course of that entire time? Building a tool kit for each book can get you through those difficult scenes, unforeseen transitions, and soggy middles.

Outlining Your Novel

G. Miki Hayden

Writers often look upon outlines with fear and trembling. But when properly understood and correctly used, the outline is one of the most powerful weapons in a writer's arsenal. In this course, you will learn how to write an outline as you explore what type of outline is right for you, brainstorm plot ideas, and discover your characters.

Personal Essay Writing 101: From Insight to Impact

Polly Campbell

Personal essays merge lived experiences into meaningful stories. In this six-week course, you’ll learn how to move from insight to impact by shaping your experiences into clear, engaging narratives.

Point of View: Finding The Heart of Your Story

Sharon Short

Learn the nuances of POV and how to avoid POV pitfalls, how time is an essential part of POV, how POV intersects with character, how to choose the right POV for each story, and how to handle unusual or tricky POVs.

Publishing 101

Rachel McMillan

This course will walk prospective authors through every step of the publishing process: from procuring an agent to peeling the curtain back on the in-house decision-making processes to how books are priced, printed, and sold to bookstores.

Query Materials Overhaul

Amy Collins

In this five-week lively, jam-packed interactive series of Zoom calls, Talcott Notch literary agent Amy Collins will work with your existing pitches and proposals and help you rework your materials to increase your chances that next year will garner you more page requests than last year.

Read Like a Writer: Learn from the Masters

Mark Spencer

This course will demonstrate that the best way to become a good writer is to study the writing of others, especially the work of the masters. Because there are no hard-and-fast rules to writing, it’s important to study what other writers have done.

Research for Writers

Sharon Short

In this online writing course, you will learn how to manage your research time and effort, and even become comfortable with it. You’ll learn how to find resources, streamline the process, and organize results.

Revision: The Essential Practice for Crafting Your Best Work

Polly Campbell

Led by the award-winning author of four books, hundreds of magazine articles, and blog posts, this course explain what revision entails and how to create a detailed, specific process that helps you elevate your work and feel creative doing it.

Revive Your Draft: From Stalled Plot to Compelling Story

Jessica Berg

It’s time to re-enter your manuscript with clarity, momentum, and purpose. Maybe you had a premise that sparkled. Or a draft in progress. And then somewhere along the way, the work got murky. Life happened. You lost the thread. This course helps you pick it back up with structure, insight, and a plan.

Setting: Create a Vivid Story World

Sharon Short

Learn how to world build in any genre, research setting, use setting to define character and drive plot, and discover techniques for weaving setting into other creative writing craft elements such as theme and voice.

Short Story Fundamentals

Ran Walker

Throughout this four-week course, you will have feedback and support while you write and hone an entire short story from beginning to end, and you'll leave with a polished draft of your story. You will get insider information about what editors are looking for in short stories they choose to publish.

Show Me the Stakes: Writing Conflict That Actually Hooks

Jessica Berg

This course will show you how to make every page pulse with the thing that matters most: consequence. You’ll learn to pin down what’s really at risk for your characters, raise the cost of failure, and revise your scenes so readers can’t look away.

The Soggy Middle: How to Keep Your Story From Sagging

Jessica Berg

The midpoint of your story changes what the story is about on a fundamental level. It gives everything on the other side a reason to exist. Once you know how to find your midpoint, plan for it, and write toward it, the middle stops being an insurmountable problem. It becomes the fuel that keeps the entire story moving.

Story Development and Outlining

Lynn Grant Beck

This course will examine plotting a screenplay from premise to story. You'll learn how to take your screenplay from the early stages of building an idea to a full story, ways to structure the story to keep tension and investment high, and strategies to build not only structure but texture in the world of your film.

Submission Coaching: Everything You Need to Know to Get Published

Amy Collins

There is so much more to getting an agent or publishing deal than just writing a good book. This 5-week class will give you the tools you need and that agents and publishers are looking for when considering taking on an author.

Submitting Short Fiction: From Polished Manuscript to Publication

Jessica Berg

You’ve written a short story and have maybe even revised it a dozen times. So... now what? If navigating the world of submissions feels like a maze of cryptic rules and rejection slips, you’re not alone. This four-week course is your step-by-step guide to getting your short fiction out into the world.

Voice: The Personality of Writing

Sharon Short

In this course, examples of voice from literature, music, and art will deepen your understanding of and appreciation for voice. You will explore all these elements, experiment with them, and emerge with a stronger voice for your writing projects, making them memorable and engaging for readers.

Writing the Cozy Mystery: Crafting a Story Readers Will Love

Melissa Bourbon

A successful cozy isn't just about solving a murder. It's about creating a cast of characters readers want to spend time with, building a setting they'll want to revisit, and weaving together a mystery that's satisfying, surprising, and plays fair with readers. In this course, you'll learn how to build your cozy mystery one step at a time.

Write Great Dialogue

Sharon Short

Dialogue can be one of the most interesting parts of a book to read, but only if it is done right. Sharpen your writing skills and challenge yourself to craft engaging, yet believable dialogue that will keep your readers interested.

Write Your Drama Pilot in Six Weeks

William Rabkin

Learn the tools professional screenwriters use to finish high-quality scripts under deadlines. By the end of this course, you will have completed and received professional feedback on a script for your drama pilot.

Writing Historical Fiction

Donna Russo Morin

Whether history is a backdrop to your story or the focus of the story itself, this workshop will provide you with the tools to find the facts you need, organize the data in a functional manner, and merge that data seamlessly into your novel.

Writing the Memoir 101

Kelly Boyer Sagert

The goal of this course is to teach you how to structure your stories, develop your storytelling skills, and give you the tips, techniques, and knowledge to adapt your own life stories into a chronological memoir. Learn how to write a powerful memoir that will engage readers for years to come.

Writing the Memoir 201

Kelly Boyer Sagert

Transform your memoir from a work-in-progress into a compelling, polished story through six focused sessions that sharpen your themes, strengthen your structure, and give you a clear plan for finishing with confidence.

Writing the Middle Grade Book

Holly Alder

Any middle-grade book author will tell you that writing an effective book is more challenging than reading one! Take this online course and learn the essential elements of writing for kids and how to break into children’s publishing.

Writing the Mystery Novel

G. Miki Hayden

Do you love reading a good mystery? Have you always wanted to write one? In this course, you'll have the choice of creating a brand new mystery story from scratch or working with a story you already have in progress.

Writing Nonfiction 101: Fundamentals

Mark Spencer

Research, interview, and explore the subjects that interest you. Then write about what you've learned in Writing Nonfiction 101: Fundamentals. Writing nonfiction is a great way for beginner and experienced writers to break into the publishing industry.

Writing Personal Essays That Get Noticed and Published

Estelle Erasmus

Through lessons, examples, guided exercises, and instructor feedback, you’ll gain the tools to create essays with strong openings, clear throughlines, and meaningful change. You’ll also learn the key distinctions between personal essay and memoir, how to identify the heart of your story, and how to begin shaping work suitable for publication.

Writing and Producing the Short Film

Rebecca Norris Resnick

With successful short film examples to watch and study, as well as real-world advice from the low-budget filmmaking trenches, this 4-week class will lead you through the process of writing a short film you can produce on a budget, as well as touch on the pre-production, production, and post-production process.

Writing the Romance Novel

Terri Valentine

This course explores why romance is the same, yet different. Some essential components of romance are unique to the genre, while some romance requirements are identical to those of any good fiction story.

Writing Scary Stories: A Short Story Primer on Horror

Richard Thomas

This four-week class will make sure you have the basics of short story telling down, and then show you how to use that pairing between terror and horror to immerse your readers in atmosphere, mood, tone, setting, and depth.

Writing the Series Bible: Developing Your TV Series

Lynn Grant Beck

A strong series bible is a crucial sales tool for your series. This course will help you get your TV series ready for an executive by developing your series premise, honing your pilot, and writing your series bible.

Writing the Thriller Novel

G. Miki Hayden

In this six-week course, you'll examine the structural elements that create a successful thriller, learn how to build compelling conflict and suspense into your story, find out what helps a story engage a reader, and much more.

Creating Authentic Emotional Conflict 

Before we can understand the course of a character’s progress (or regress), we have to know who that character is. In this workshop, you will cover how to naturally develop characters and story as a single unit so that your audience connects on a deep emotional level.

Creating High Concept Screenplay Ideas

This course will give writers tools for generating and refining high concept ideas, from paying attention to—and seeking out—those initial sparks of inspiration which might launch a screenplay to finding ways not just of sustaining the story but building its potential, forward momentum, and meaning.

Developing Your Reality TV Idea

In this workshop, you will learn what it takes to develop a killer reality television show and take the first steps in beginning your career in reality television production. Tailored for beginners and mid-career writers interested in exploring the opportunities reality television offers in today’s media marketplace.

FightWrite (TM): Picking a Fighting Style WITH Your Character

Struggling to choose a fighting style for your character? The struggle is over. The way your character does battle isn’t up to you. It’s up to the story. The time and place of the work, the society in which your character lives, their inherent and fostered traits and the needs of the story will determine how your character responds to aggression.

FightWrite (TM): What You Need to Know Before Writing Fight Scenes, Battles, and Brawls

Struggling to choose a fighting style for your character? The struggle is over. The way your character does battle isn’t up to you. It’s up to the story. The time and place of the work, the society in which your character lives, their inherent and fostered traits and the needs of the story will determine how your character responds to aggression.

Fundamentals of Poetry Writing

In this workshop, you will gain a working knowledge of how to write poetry—including basic poetic forms and the fundamental techniques of writing both rhymed and free verse. This class is for poets looking to take their work to the next level through a thorough understanding of classical poetic structures and techniques.

Ghostwriting 101

What do you need to get started? What makes ghostwriting more challenging—and yet more rewarding—than writing your own books? Why is this field a great way to expand your freelance career? You’ll find answers to all these questions in this workshop.

Master in Fine Arts (Creative Writing) Application Preparation Course

Getting together an MFA application can be a daunting prospect. Often writers who are applying for an MFA are at the start of their writing careers, or transitioning from one career to another. Let this course guide you through the process.

Plot and Structure

Plot and structure are two of the most important elements of fiction. In order to write a work of fiction that will keep your readers glued to the page, mastering these elements is essential. This on demand online workshop will teach you how to structure your novel and develop an enticing plot that will keep readers wanting more. 

Successful Self-Publishing

When you take this workshop, you will not only learn how to self-publish a book (including learning about all of the different platforms), but we will help you set attainable goals, show you how you should set up your branding, what to do during dreaded tax season, figure out if you need a barcode or ISBN, how to market your book, and much more.

Voice and Viewpoint

Wondering how to express your voice in writing or find the right point of view for your characters? Find the answers to these questions and others when you take this online workshop. Ensure your writing stands apart from the crowd and master the elements of voice and viewpoint.

World Building: Crafting Screenplays Readers Can Step Into On Demand

This course offers specific tips for creating and implementing advice on building the world of your screenplay. Research advice and tips, strengthening visual storytelling in action paragraphs, developing and implementing settings, examining character and plot conflict as it relates to your settings, and genre consistency, will also be covered in this class.

Writing a Religious Book

Share your passion for writing with others and explore the world of inspirational writing. Regardless of genre, you will discover how spiritual and religious writing can make an impact on your readers and how to use inspirational writing prompts for motivation.

Writing for Reality TV

In Writing for Reality TV, you will learn the ins and outs of what goes into the production and writing of a reality television show. This course, composed by one of the industry’s busiest and most recognizable reality television writer/producers, offers you the tools necessary to succeed as a writer of reality television.

Writing Nonfiction for Children

Writing for children does not always mean writing a picture book or young adult novel. In fact, there are many nonfiction children’s books being published today and the demand for quality nonfiction is growing. Embrace this great opportunity in the marketplace and begin writing nonfiction for kids.

Writing the Action Feature Film On Demand

This workshop offers comprehensive tools and insights for writing the action feature-length film. While the action genre is often equivocated with ‘simply’ daring feats and leaps into the air and off tall buildings, the reader must take the leap with the writer to suspend disbelief and jump into a script that goes beyond stereotype, one-dimensional characters and pure formula.

Writing the Adaptation

In this workshop, you will formulate a five-page treatment designed not just to keep you on course with screenplay but also to use as a possible sales tool. By the end of the workshop, you will also have the first act of your story in script form, along with a step by step outline of your screenplay. All the tools you need to get your adaptation ready for Hollywood!

Writing the Animated Feature Film

Have you ever had a great idea for an animated movie but had no idea what to do with it? In this course you will learn how to structure and write a three-act film with a specific emphasis on animation. Animation screenwriting, like all other disciplines of writing, has its own rules, rhythms, and form.

Writing the Family Feature Film

This workshop will guide you through the structural and thematic elements common among the most successful family films of all time. By the end of this workshop, you will have a complete treatment for your feature length family film that has been vetted by a professional screenwriter, and also all the tools you need to see your project to the end.

Writing the Nonfiction Book Proposal

The demand for nonfiction writing has steadily increased over the past few years. Take advantage of the market and craft a nonfiction book that will intrigue editors and publishers. The great thing about nonfiction is that you don’t have to write an entire manuscript. In fact, all you have to do is pitch your idea.

Writing the Novel Proposal

Writing a perfect novel proposal can be challenging. Let this online workshop teach you how to write a book proposal that is concise, yet impactful in just 14 weeks. You will discover better ways to showcase your novel’s assets, learn helpful tips for crafting a pitch, and so much more.

Your Screenplay Sales Tools: Loglines, One Sheets, and Query Letters

This three-week intensive workshop will examine the narrative components of a One Sheet, which include: title, concept, logline and writing a 3-paragraph summary (beginning, middle, and end). In short, learn how to pitch your idea with a logline, verbally and with clarity, covering all aspects of your story idea that prospective directors, producers, and agents look for, as well as manage that content in the form of a query letter.