Weekly Live Classes
With Emmy-winning screenwriter Erik Bork
Screenwriting is a long marathon. You don’t have to run it alone.
Come to my weekly live classes to keep your writing moving forward every week.
After the success of my book The Idea: The Seven Elements of a Viable Story I decided to create this online space to help writers apply its concepts.
Through these live sessions and discussion boards in a supportive community, members get my direct feedback on their evolving stories, loglines and synopses.
I also teach and take questions on writing topics, and offer my 35-lesson self-paced video course that expands the book’s “7 Elements” into 5 targeted lessons each.
Tuesdays at 11:30 AM Eastern
Four Tuesdays a month I host a live video call with members of my online community:
Logline Lab: I give live feedback on your loglines and advice on project challenges. (60 min.)
Craft Focus: I teach and provide insights on a key writing topic and answer questions. (30 min.)
Popular Demand: I discuss a “voted by the community” writing topic (or movie or series). (30 min.)
Script Spotlight: I give feedback on a member’s one-page synopsis or first two pages of a script. (30 min.)
Sample Clip from a Live Session
The IDEA Course
- Community members also have ongoing access to my self-paced class for testing your story concepts
- 35 quick video lessons and a workbook to help you evaluate your idea from multiple angles
- Mini-lectures with movie examples to strengthen your project’s central problem/goal
- Guidance on maximizing emotional relatability and genre elements in a story you want to tell
Before you even think about starting to write a screenplay, I think it’s a must to take this course. Erik teaches unique techniques that allow him, and now his students, to hone in with a laser focus on the strengths and weaknesses of an idea. You’ll end up understanding if your story is worth telling and if it will get industry players excited. I can’t recommend this course enough.
It’s just you and your idea against the world—or so you think, until you take The Idea course from the relatable, inspiring, hella credentialed screenwriter Erik Bork. Get ready for fun and turn on your critical thinking brains as Bork guides you with his masterlist of movies to discover your own idea’s next-level potential.
Take this course first. Read Save the Cat later. You will save yourself months or years of time when you learn to evaluate and improve your basic story idea before you even begin writing it.
Weekly Live Classes
Four Tuesdays a month, join Erik and other members for a zoom-style live discussion; also recorded for later reference
Discussion Boards
Get Erik’s logline feedback and answers to questions; and support from other writers in the community
THE IDEA Course
Erik’s 35-lesson self-paced video course with support documents including a detailed workbook
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