
Add Hollywood magic to your stories, leveraging decades as a Hollywood story and script consultant to boost emotional and commercial impact for public speakers, presenters, attorneys, internet marketers, and writers.
Understand Hollywood magic by learning how 30+ years of experience shape storytelling that elicits emotion, driving box office success and guiding novels, marketers, and others.
Identify the three basic story foundations—character, desire, and conflict—and explain how Hollywood centers on a hero pursuing a visible goal against insurmountable obstacles.
Learn to create a movie in the mind of your reader by crafting vivid scenes and characters, applying screenplay principles to novel writing to transport readers and evoke emotion.
Discover the twelve basic components that shape any great story, whether movie or novel, and learn to develop them in detail to craft an outstanding emotional experience.
Identify the hero as the main character who drives the story, engaging readers through desire and conflict. Show how multiple heroes and the journey reveals potential to become heroic.
Show the hero in the setup with a before picture and their everyday life, reveal longing and inertia, and craft a vivid setting that pulls them toward the journey.
Create empathy for your hero by weaving sympathy, jeopardy, or likability, and connect readers to the protagonist through built-in conflict.
define the opportunity as a new, never-before-seen event that jolts the hero into a new situation, whether good or bad, sparks desire, and drives the story forward.
The hero enters a new situation, learns the rules, and sets a clear outer motivation and visible goal—driving emotional investment, as seen in Avatar and romance.
Explore pursuit as the engine of a story, where the hero defines an achievable goal as outer motivation, and relentlessly pursues it from act 2 to the climax.
Explore how outer and inner conflicts drive emotion, with heroes confronting escalating obstacles, wounds, beliefs, and identity to reach their true essence and achieve the goal.
Explore how supporting characters—the reflection, the nemesis, and the romance—drive a hero's outer goals and inner journey by revealing essence and identity through conflict and connection in love stories.
Explore transformation as the hero's inner journey from fear and identity toward essence, enduring a tug of war, retreat, transformative moment, wisdom from a reflection character, and a courageous push.
Craft the climax as a clear, definitive payoff when the hero transforms from identity to essence, faces the greatest obstacle, and either wins or becomes a tragic figure.
Reveal the aftermath: show the hero's new life, the reward or punishment, and how courage transforms the outside world, delivering the elixir to the village.
Explore the theme as a universal prescription for living, guiding the hero’s transformation to fully individuated self, as in Good Will Hunting, not a political statement like China Syndrome.
The lecture guides novel writers through 18 essential story questions, defining the hero, setup, obstacles, goals, allies, nemesis, arc, climax, and commercial potential.
unlock three secrets: get it written, write daily from seat of the chair, reject rejection; be willing to be afraid and follow your passion as the hero of your story.
Join over 70,000 students learning from our courses!
From Michael Hauge, author of the #1 Best Selling Udemy Screenwriting & Storytelling Course: Screenwriting and Story Blueprint: The Hero's Two Journeys.
All the great content and bonuses of Add Hollywood Magic to Your Storytelling, but targeted specifically for fiction writers!
Michael Hauge’s unique approach to story, plot structure, character arc, love stories, theme and commercial potential is now available to novelists on this new (slide show) Streaming Video.
DESIGNED ESPECIALLY FOR NOVEL WRITING!
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“Michael inspired me to write Jockeying for You at the 2015 CTRWA conference, and gave me confidence in my story line. As an author and attorney, I have attended many “how to write” courses. But the best is Michael Hauge’s Story Mastery. Thank you, Michael, for your faith in me, my chapter, and romance writers everywhere.”
- Stacy Hoff Author: Lawfully Yours, Jockeying For You, the Desire series for Soul Mate Publishing
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This brand new presentation will empower you to:
Establish a powerful emotional connection with your readers
Master the 12 components of every great story
Create immediate empathy with the hero of your story
Add depth to your character’s arc by incorporating wound, fear, identity, essence
Learn the biggest weakness of most love stories – and how to avoid it
Develop a universal theme that touches ALL of your readers
Employ Michael’s 18 Key Questions for building your story
Transform and captivate your readers
Who is Alex Ferrari? As the founder of Indie Film Hustle it's Alex goal to bring the best information and education he can to indie filmmakers, screenwriter, storytellers and entrepreneurs.
When the opportunity to work with a storytelling legend like Michael Hauge and present his work to the Udemy community I jumped at the chance.
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Michael Hauge is a story and script consultant, author and lecturer who works with writers and filmmakers on their screenplays, novels, movies and television projects. He has coached writers, producers, stars and directors on projects for Will Smith, Julia Roberts, Jennifer Lopez, Kirsten Dunst, Charlize Theron and Morgan Freeman, as well as for every major studio and network.
Michael also works extensively with Hollywood executives, producers, agents and managers, helping them sharpen their story and development skills, and improving their companies' abilities to recognize powerful material, employ advanced principles of structure, character arc and theme, skillfully communicate a story's strengths and weaknesses, and work effectively with writers to achieve a commercially successful screenplay.
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Important information before you enroll:
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Once enrolled, you have unlimited, lifetime access to the course!
You will have instant and free access to any updates we'll add to the course.
I will give you my full support regarding any issues or suggestions related to the course.
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