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The Dreaded Rewrite Webinar

At a Glance

  • Discover the necessities and tricks of a page-one rewrite.
  • Learn how to get and analyze honest feedback to improve your work, including a critique on up to 5 pages of your script!
  • Get unique tips to help you fine tune your story to make a positive first impression on an executive.

When screenwriters finish a first draft, the desire to get their baby "out there" is tremendous. But putting a script into the market prematurely is an immediate death sentence, not only for the script, but also potentially for a writer's career. You have one shot at a first impression.

Learn how tho find the appropriate writers to review your work and how to analyze and organize the feedback they give you. Get information on hiring professional script consultants and find out if they're really worth the money.

You'll learn tips to improve every scene, the value of a synopsis, how to evolve your characters, how to cut unnecessary pages from your script and more.

As an added bonus, each participant is invited to submit up to 5 pages of their script (in proper screenplay format) for review by the instructor!

This class will explore the best techniques to tackle the dreaded rewrite like a pro.

What You'll Learn:

  • How to find writers to share work if there are none in your network.
  • How to analyze feedback received from other writers.
  • How to organize feedback and use it most effectively.
  • The value of a synopsis to the rewrite process.
  • The common mistakes writers make in the first draft.
  • A checklist of unique rewriting techniques.
  • A checklist of how to improve every scene.
  • How to evolve your characters.
  • Tips on cutting pages from a script.
  • Smaller details to make your script shine.
  • Newbie mistakes to avoid, including common ones that make a reader pause in those first few critical pages.

Who Should Attend?

  • Writers with a partial or whole screenplay who want to improve it.
  • Writers whose work has been rejected by production companies and agents.
  • Writers who have specific questions about the rewrite process.

Product Details

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Meet the Instructor: Jeanne Veillette Bowerman

Jeanne Veillette Bowerman is the Co-Founder and moderator of the weekly Twitter screenwriter chat, #Scriptchat, and has a regular column on Script, entitled Balls of Steel. She’s written several spec scripts, including the adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Slavery by Another Name, with its author, Douglas A. Blackmon, senior national correspondent of The Wall Street Journal. More information can be found on her blog: www.jeannevb.com.
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