Story Structure For TV Spec and Pilot Scripts (On sale for $15.95 from $30.95)         


Gearing Up For Staffing and Development Season (On sale for $12.95 from $24.95)
               If you want to buy both workbooks, click here


10% of the proceeds will go to Doctors Without Borders and Breast Cancer Research

UPCOMING SEMINARS AND TELESEMINAR

STORYWISE SEMINAR:  GEARING UP FOR STAFFING AND DEVELOPMENT SEASON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5TH - Writers Junction 1001 Colorado Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90401 - Click here for more information.

If you want to know 5 Staffing and Development Tips to get an idea of what we will cover, click here.

STORYWISE SEMINAR:  HOW TO TELL A STORY THAT SELLS
UCLA - Saturday, March 19th 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
In this class, we will go over the components of what makes a strong story in TV and features. (For a list of what this includes, click here.) 

I will be teaching from my book STORY LINE: FINDING GOLD IN YOUR LIFE STORY.  Books will be available for sale after the seminar.

I will also be putting together panelists from the feature and TV world as a way to get you the most current information. I currently have a writer from DEXTER and a writer from THE GOOD WIFE.

STORYWISE SPEC AND PILOT TELESEMINAR
SPEC TELESEMINAR BEGINS SUNDAY, MARCH 27th at 4:00 p.m.
PILOT TELESEMINAR BEGINS SUNDAY, MAY 8th at 4:00 p.m.

There is a promo on YouTube that explains it in more detail that was produced by Superneato Productions.

What if you could write a TV spec and pilot script in 10 weeks under the guidance of a veteran studio executive who has worked in the business for over 18 years and has successfully helped to staff over 15 top prime time shows and is currently the Writing Instructor for NBC's Writers on the Verge.  Would you be interested? 

Sign ups have begun.  Last year, there were 100 people participating in this teleseminar.  Only 5 people for the spec teleseminar and 5 people for the pilot teleseminar will be able to sign up at the upper level.  So, if you want feedback every week on your scripts, sign up ASAP.

For more info, click here.

Testimonials For Storywise Teleseminar

You can spend hours upon hours, draft after draft, trying to bang your pilot into a predetermined shape or fit your story into a formula.  Jen's special talent as a teacher - really, as a spirit guide for story - is to show you how to find structure and emotion.  The elements of story that might look mechanical are right there inside your characters, and if you listen to them (and to her), you can let them out.

Michelle Chihara & Josh Joy Kamensky, NBC-Uni Writers On The Verge

 

Jen, This has been such an inspirational five weeks.  Your guidance through the narrative, spiritual and emotional process of writing a new pilot from scratch has helped me immensely - not only on this project - but also with all my work going forward.  Instead of being exhausted by the process, I am energized!

Ryan Harris, Writer

NEW VENTURES
I recommend the following two companies that I am helping to launch because we share a vision of wanting the artist to succeed.

VOYAGE MEDIA 

"The Top 3 things TO DO when dealing With Agents & Executives, & the Sure-Fire Way To Make Them Your *New Best Friend!*"  - To see what these top 3 things are, press here.

Voyage Media have just introduced these really cool sessions where you work one-on-one with an a-list producer/executive who reads your material and strategizes with you how best to pitch it and sell it in the marketplace. The sessions are super-enlightening and fill you in on who is doing what and with whom, how your project might get green lit, and how to approach agents & execs with your pitch -this is stuff you can't read in the trades - so that you don't blow it when your moment comes.

And for now, until next week, the sessions are $100 off. http://www.voyagemedia.com

Click here for more details.

EMovieBooks & Scripts
Do you have scripts sitting in your drawers that have been passed on?  What if you could turn them into a published book, would you be interested?

Film and television director Hubert de la Bouillerie and his wife (former film executive and producer Debbie Robins), have created EMovieBooks & Scripts(emoviebooks.com)as the first and only online store to sell works from Hollywood screenwriters for download to computers and mobile readers like iPad and Kindle. The site features EMovieBooks - screenplays that have been formatted to read like novellas - as well as traditional film scripts, teleplays, novels, and short stories. emoviebooks.com.

The Scriptwriters Network is running its next session of The Hollywood Outreach Program (HOP). Sessions run quarterly in January, April, July and October each year.

Screenwriters to this program receive at least two pieces of studio style coverage to help them improve their next draft. Submissions receiving a 'consider' and/or 'recommend' grade are forwarded to various production companies, agents and managers.

To enter, please visit www.scriptwritersnetwork.org for further details. 

 

The deadline is January 15, 2011. 

Good Luck!

FRIDAY NIGHT DRINKS
The next Friday Night Drinks is Friday, January 7 at the X Bar at the Century Plaza Hotel at 2025 Ave. of the Stars.

PODCAST SERIES

I am PROUD to announce my newest  podcasts with Erich Hoeber, (BATTLESHIP, MAN ON A LEDGE, RED, MONTANA) co-writer for the feature RED which was nominated for a Golden Globe,  Peter Lenkov (HAWAII FIVE-O, C.S.I.:  NY, 24, LA FEMME NIKITA, DEMOLITION MAN, etc.) and Jeff Melvoin (ARMY WIVES, ALIAS, IN THE LINE OF FIRE, THE DISTRICT, EARLY EDITION, HILL STREET BLUES, etc.). They will be posted in December.

 
You can listen to all my podcasts on my website or iTunes. 

FAVORITE GIFT IDEAS - BOOKS

The War Of Art - Steven Pressfield
Linchpin by Seth Godin 
Drive by Daniel H. Pink
A Million Miles In A Thousand Years by Donald Miller

The Writer's Journey - 3rd Edition by Chris Vogler

Save The Cat by Blake Snyder
Selling Your Story in 60 Seconds by Michael Hauge
The Pocket Screenwriting Guide by Mario O. Moreno and Anthony Greico
The Woman In The Story by Helen Jacey
Symbols * Images * Codes by Pamela Jaye Smith
The Coffee Break Screenwriter by Pilar Alessandra
The Virgin's Promise by Kim Hudson
 

If you have an interest in how my business works, you will want to watch this promo video produced by Superneato Productions.

 QUOTE OF THE MONTH
 Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle