Screenwriting Workshops and Courses Are Totally Unnecessary!!! Use the Hero`s Journey
Like all workshops, the major benefit normally derives from the interaction with other people. Further, a workshop may instil a degree of discipline ? the lecturer may take the potential screenwriter through numerous stages that result in a words-on-paper first draft. But, generally, the drawbacks outweigh the positives:
a) It is easy to pick up wrong thinking and bad patterns of behaviour through long term osmosis.
b) Most people who attend workshops suffer from their own blocks ? which are, inadvertently, easily passed on.
c) Lecturer(s) may direct the novice screenwriter towards the wrong structural models (plot points etc as opposed to the Hero?s Journey).
d) Worst of all, the new screenwriter will learnn to think like everyone else!
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Workshop or not, the screenwriter will have to eventually build up writing competencies through sustained engagement with a number of projects (stories). This will usually be achieved alone or in a pair.
The fastest route to success is to generate ideas and apply the Hero?s Journey ? the template for the most successful stories and CERTAINLY the template for ALL the ACADEMY AWAR
