FURTHER COURSE DETAILS

THIS COURSE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO… 

• Come up with more new ideas and develop them faster. 

• Construct stories with satisfying and surprising beats. 

• Write more believable characters and dialogue.

• Get better at analysing scripts and giving and receiving notes. 

• Connect the micro of a scene to the macro of your story arc. 

• Take the pain out of writing and rewriting. 

Writing and rewriting are hard work, but they don’t have to be agony. By adjusting the way you think about the many aspects of putting a script together, you can turn a hair-pulling ego-crisis into a calm and enjoyable process. For this course, I’m dissecting and examining what’s good about the way I work so that you can become a writer who hands in work calmly, confidently and with time to spare, just like me, Tom Crowley. 

If you’re worried that the details of your story aren’t coming across clearly enough, or your plot twists aren’t surprising enough, or your characters aren’t feeling consistent and you’re having trouble working out why, then this is the course for you! Plenty of courses teach you how to start writing the story that’s burning inside you, but not enough of them teach you how to refine that story and make it come alive on the page. This fun, dynamic and engaging live online course will demystify the art of scriptwriting and help to change your outlook on your work. You’ll learn to see the bigger picture and get more comfortable with structure and rewriting so you can take your script to the next level and understand how you’ve done it. 

One of the most important assets in a creative person’s toolkit is their peer group, so this course also prioritises positive and productive discussion between students, to help you to talk more confidently about yours and other people’s work and to forge a creative community. Writing can be a lonely occupation, too, and this course provides an opportunity to meet new people with similar creative interests to yourself, as well as offering a platform where you can bring your writing out into the light in a safe and encouraging environment. 

What’s more, it’s often said that the first ten pages are key to attracting the interest of potential buyers, so admission on this course entitles each student to a full professional-standard script report on the first ten pages (approximately 2000 words) of any script they choose. They also have the opportunity to upgrade this to a full written report on the entire script at a discounted rate which varies depending on the length of the project. 

TOM CROWLEY

Tom Crowley is a writer, actor and comedian who has written for Cartoon Network, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio 4, Bafflegab Productions, Six to Start and Gen Z Media. He has also written for award-winning independent podcast sitcom Wooden Overcoats and adapted the Rocky Horror sequel Shock Treatment for its world stage premiere. His stage adaptation of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations was published by Methuen in 2018 and is available from all good retailers. 

DISCLAIMER

• To participate in the course, students must be able to attend a video conference meeting using any device that lets them both send and receive video and audio. Students require only the free version of the Zoom app. 

• No strict rules for behaviour during lessons are specified, but a basic level of decorum and common sense are required. If you wouldn’t do it in an in-person class, don’t do it on the Zoom. 

• To receive the script report on their first ten pages, students must deliver their draft in time for the deadline set by the teacher, otherwise a script report cannot be guaranteed.

• Students can cancel their place on the course in exchange for a full refund up to and including fourteen days before the first lesson is due to begin. Any later than that and no refund can be issued. 

• The teacher pledges that should he have to cancel any scheduled lesson in part or in whole for any reason, he shall arrange a replacement session to make up the time at a later date that is convenient for him and the students. 

• The teacher reserves the right to exclude any student from the course for disruptive or unpleasant behaviour of any kind.