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Feature-Length Screenwriting: Weekly Jan 7 – March 4

The Corporeal Writing Center 510 SW 3rd Ave #101, Portland, OR, United States

Start the New Year right and finish your feature-length screenplay! This screenwriting workshop will focus on intensive feedback culminating in participants finishing a feature-length script by the end of our nine week workshop. We will help you electrify your story idea and/or help you adapt your piece of fiction or nonfiction into a format suitable for a script. Some previous knowledge of screenwriting structure is recommended but not required. Also as a part of this workshop we will discuss strategies for selling your script and/or getting it made into a film. Taught by Writer/Director Andy Mingo: Andy is a seasoned screenwriter who has adapted fiction to screen from authors like Monica Drake, Lidia Yuknavitch, and Chuck Palahniuk. He and Palahniuk recently co-wrote the script adaptation…

$300

Online: The Art Of Screenwriting w/ Andy Mingo

The Internet 001 SE Cyberspace Lane, Portland, OR, United States

Whether you're a first time screenwriter with a vision for film, or if you've written a fictional piece you would like to adapt to the big screen this online, 6 week intensive screenwriting workshop is for you. Beyond screenplay format and the three act format, this workshop will dive deep to explore the emotional meaning that you bring to the page. We will develop characterization from the inside out and discover a connection with a scripted story that will be ready to film. The class will consist of weekly videos lessons and online content that will culminate in a short 10-page script. Week 1: Finding Character Week 2: Deep States and Action Week 3: Emotional & Dramatic Flow Week 4: Connections For A Larger Structure…

$275

Time Fuck: A face2face Collaboration w/ Lidia Yuknavitch

The Corporeal Writing Center 510 SW 3rd Ave #101, Portland, OR, United States

Linear time not only doesn't always make sense on the page, I'm not sure it even makes sense in anyone's life anymore. If you are writing in any form and you are driven to create time distortions, disruptions, fragmentations, displacements, rearrangements, liminalities, loop-de-loops, repetitions, layers, then join us on July 17th and 18th. In person. On the first day, Lidia and the entire Corporeal Squad will each run you through some portals around writing with time disruptions, and on the second day Lidia and Domi will throw some mean on it, get down to it, show you four strategies for why, when, and how to write against the grain of linear time. We'll eyeball some great examples, too. Participants will walk away with works in…

$450