On to Lesson 2: What is Story?

Welcome to the transition page in your Beginning Screenwriter Course.

Lesson 2 should be in your inbox in less than 90 seconds.

How this works:

It takes just a little more than a minute for the automations inside ConvertKit (my email newsletter service) to receive your request, get their act together, and send you the next lesson.

I have literally sat and timed it with a stopwatch.

It clocks in anywhere between 45-90 seconds.

Why the variable times? I don’t know!

But this is what I am going to do.

I am going to take the opportunity to add a bit to each lesson. More flavor than anything else. If it was vital, it would already be in the lesson.

But it should add additional context.

I am going to share with you some of the stories of how I came to these conclusions over the years, and some experiences that I have had that affected how I see this craft that I have devoted my life to.

I never really had a screenwriting teacher.

I read a couple books, one that was horrible and another (SCREENPLAY by Syd Field) that at least gave me a framework on how to approach this.

But no teachers.

I was all self-taught. And it was a vigorous pursuit.

I put my head down and I devoted myself to it.

And it earned me a few early shots.

When I started getting paid to write I was lucky to find a couple producers who mentored me and that’s what really propelled my growth.