Storytelling Masterclass for Writers—by a Successful Writer!
What you'll learn
- Story Theory: How stories get their power to grip and engage an audience.
- Working with the substance of every story: Knowledge gaps and subtext.
- The Three Roles in Every Story: Author, Character, Receiver.
- The Story Development Process: how to make the absolute most of your story idea.
- Understand the Industry: How to be sure that your story will sell.
- Pitch Decks and Publication Packs: How to present yourself and your stories to publishers and producers.
Requirements
- Have an interest in turning your creative ideas into superb stories that sell.
- Have a strong desire to succeed as a writer.
- Recognise that to gain success you have to do more than just write.
- Applies to all story forms - authors, scriptwriters, playwrights, journalists...
Description
Working with a trainer who is a published author, screenwriter, producer, story consultant and Ph.D. academic of story theory, you will learn how to elevate your writing to exceptional levels in your books, screenplays, blogs, essays, business and marketing copy, through your mastery of story theory.
"Everyone who works with story needs to know what David knows." (Alex Marx - Writer/Director: The Queen of Fashion)
You will receive essential knowledge for professional screenwriting, scriptwriting, creative writing, books and even marketing with story. Every author and screenwriter needs to know this. Further material on packaging and selling yourself and your stories to publishers and producers in the book and film industries.
We will look at the role of the author where we understand the key question dynamic, Aristotle's principles and what happens when characters make plans. Then onto the ultimate story dynamic, storification. the critical dynamic that makes a story a story. Then the story development process. Once the seeds begin to blossom, you will know how to guide the story threads?
"David’s discoveries are a game changer for writers."
KRIS MOLE (Author: Gatecrashing Europe)
We deep dive into story in twenty video lectures and use clips and short films and book extracts to give you a complete understanding of how stories work.
This course is based on my Ph.D. thesis in story theory, my five best selling books on the subject and the course content I have given live to academic and commercial audiences, charging as much as £2000 for live delivery.
I have used my understanding of story to build a career in books and film. There is nothing stopping you from doing the same.
"David is the new Aristotle."
Craig Hinde, Writer/Producer/Director
Who this course is for:
- Aspiring and Professional Writers
- Authors
- Screenwriters
- Scriptwriters
- Playwrights
- Marketing Copy Writers
- Bloggers
- Publishers, Producers, Directors, editors.
Instructor
- 4.9 Instructor Rating
- 36 Reviews
- 529 Students
- 1 Course
In addition to his ten published books, David is a film producer and story consultant for a current slate of around ten upcoming films and television series, including the Hollywood blockbuster, The Queen of Fashion, starring Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones), Hayley Atwell (Captain America) and Richard E. Grant (Withnail and I). Also in pre-production is The Grand Euthanasia Hotel, a television series based on the book entitled Shaking Hands with Elvis, written by Paul Carrol and published by David's company, DreamEngine Media.
David's most recent available broadcast work includes the multi-award winning feature film, Homeless Ashes (Amazon Prime, 2019) starring Lew Temple (Once Upon a time in Hollywood) and Maria Howell (The Hunger Games); The Oscar-qualified White Gold (2020); and the Modern Horrors, Hosts and Witch (both available on Amazon Prime).
He has also written and produced his own film from scratch, Bella (2021) - a story without conflict, dialogue or a 'bad guy' - which you can follow through the entire development process on the course, and then watch in its final, fully produced form.
David was awarded a Ph.D. for his original research into story theory (2017). He has since been applying it in his work and refining the tools and methods for the story expertise he teaches, based on the power of knowledge gaps and subtext.
It is amazing how few people in story industries understand how stories work. You, too, can learn how stories work and can use this super-power to get a career as a writer in books, film, television or theatre.