Writing Workshop | So You Think Your Life’s A Movie? — In Three Acts | Linda Bergman

NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY! This three hour class is not just for screenwriters. It is for novelists, memoirists, personal essayists, short-story writers or ANYONE who wants to learn to get to good story FAST. Linda focuses on the importance of a vivid LOG LINE and the industry standard, three-act STRUCTURE of a saleable script. As an experienced buyer and seller in the entertainment industry, Linda uses popular films to teach you sub plots, plot points and act breaks. Dialogue, character, research and the legal aspect of the process is also covered in this fun and entertaining class. (The link to download the handout will be in your order details. Please print or have the first page open during the workshop.)

LINDA BERGMAN has written 24 films and produced 5 of them. Her scripts have been nominated for an Emmy, an Access Award, The Alpha Award for Excellence in children’s programming, and the Writer’s Guild Award. While at UCLA, she joined the groundbreaking team of ABC Movies of the Week. She was promoted as Assistant to the President of MGM, then retired to write full time. She’s taught screenwriting in L.A., in NYC for the Barnard Film Group, at Marin’s Book Passage, and many locales for the IWWG (Yale, Brown, Muhlenberg, Antioch). She was also a faculty member for the 2013 and 2018 San Miguel Conference. Linda wrote So You Think Your Life’s A Movie: Ten Steps to a Script That Sells, a Global E Award Winner in the category of Arts and Entertainment, and So You Think Your Life’s A Movie? The Sequel. Her book to the musical, Wanna Play?, was published by Samuel French and produced on PBS. Follow her on Face book’s Linda Bergman’s So You Think Your Life’s A Movie.

Interactive Event Live on Zoom.