Comments on: Learn Screenwriting By Doing It – Online And In Your Own Time

By: FORMATTING TIP: Foreign language, dialogue and accents

FORMATTING TIP: Foreign language, dialogue and accents — Sun, 09 May 2021 00:18:03 +0000

[…] Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges – one of the scripts we studied in Immersion – the characters each speak with their respective accents, but it’s never mentioned in […]

By: Reading Screenplays -- Without Wasting Your Time

Reading Screenplays -- Without Wasting Your Time — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 02:07:52 +0000

[…] From the thousands of scripts on the web, there are only a handful I recommend to my students as exemplary writing. (I am using these for the online course I designed, Immersion Screenwriting. The story of how this course came about is here.) […]

By: Week 22 27/06-03/07/2016 # The Help: Immersion Screenwriting Course – the journey of my first screenplay

Fri, 16 Dec 2016 17:35:18 +0000

[…] is nice about this course (which you can read more about here), on top of that it is for free at this point and being under someone’s very capable wings, is […]

By: Homeira

Homeira — Sun, 30 Oct 2016 04:08:04 +0000

I have no idea now . cause it is my first time taking part in such a program and I am not sure about my situations in my country to be connected to the net or finding vpns to break the limitations are made for people inside the country …. reading about the why and how of your reasons to mkae such an opportunity for us , makes me feel a deep respect toward you as well as deciding to get out of the group for what I write about before … any way , thanks a lot and hope to take part in another course one day soon …
Regards,
Homeira

By: Week 34-35 19/09-02/10/1016 What Learning To Write A Synopsis Has Taught Me (And Why I Think It’s Indispensable) – the journey of my first screenplay

Fri, 28 Oct 2016 19:10:15 +0000

[…] do you have to learn how to write synopses? Isn’t this Immersion Screenwriting Course about learning screenwriting?”, one friend asked me recently. And several students in the course […]

By: Karel Segers

Karel Segers — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 22:26:15 +0000

In reply to Margaret Hargrave. Great to hear you're enjoying library and teaching. Sounds like something I would aspire to do when I'm (nearly) 75! ;)

By: Margaret Hargrave

Margaret Hargrave — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 06:50:16 +0000

Truly wish I could do it, Karel, but my job is just too demanding. AND I am rewriting a crime novel and yet another version of the screenplay I once discussed with you--and in which you expressed interest. And I had better finish somethings! I am 75 in exactly 2 weeks!!! BTW, I love my new career as a teacher-librarian and have no plans to try retirement again. It sucks.

By: Screenwriting Rules [The 3-Act Structure and Other Magic]The Story Department

Screenwriting Rules [The 3-Act Structure and Other Magic]The Story Department — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 01:00:07 +0000

[…] The only tools or programs that will ultimately get you closer to your goal, are the ones that help you do what you need to do on a regular basis. […]

By: Karel Segers

Karel Segers — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 07:47:36 +0000

If you were considering doing the course, here’s a warning from student Mel Marques: https://thejourneyofmyfirstscreenplay.wordpress.com/2016/07/23/week-23-24-04-17072016-eating-sleeping-drinking-swimming-in-screenplays/

By: Aaron Sorkin Masterclass: Do It! [not for the reason you think]The Story Department

Sat, 23 Jul 2016 04:01:06 +0000

[…] Immersion. […]