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The Nitty Gritty of Spec Scripts: Writing Strong Action and Dialogue

DAVE TROTTIER

The Nitty Gritty of Spec Scripts: Writing Strong Action and Dialogue

DAVE TROTTIER

$99.99

11/14/2024 - 11/21/2024

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This one-week intensive course focuses on the specifics of writing compelling action (description) and dialogue. At the end of this course, your expert instructor, Dave Trottier, will evaluate five pages of your spec script.

Who is the real audience for your spec script, and what are they looking for? Craft a riveting, engaging spec that can open doors to your success. In this course, you will get an inside view of how to write action and dialogue that captures the imagination and emotions of those who can make a difference. Examples will be provided.

Your instructor, Dave Trottier, is a produced screenwriter who has helped hundreds of writers break into the writing business. He is in-demand script consultant, award-winning teacher, and author of The Screenwriter’s Bible (now in its sixth edition), and host of keepwriting.com.

$99.99

11/14/2024 - 11/21/2024

Enroll Now

This one-week intensive course focuses on the specifics of writing compelling action (description) and dialogue. At the end of this course, your expert instructor, Dave Trottier, will evaluate five pages of your spec script.

Who is the real audience for your spec script, and what are they looking for? Craft a riveting, engaging spec that can open doors to your success. In this course, you will get an inside view of how to write action and dialogue that captures the imagination and emotions of those who can make a difference. Examples will be provided.

Your instructor, Dave Trottier, is a produced screenwriter who has helped hundreds of writers break into the writing business. He is in-demand script consultant, award-winning teacher, and author of The Screenwriter’s Bible (now in its sixth edition), and host of keepwriting.com.

Course outline

Course outline

There are four text lectures for this course. The writing assignment is due the following Thursday after the course begins.

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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