The Newbie Screenwriter's Blueprint: 5 Biggest IDEATION Mistakes That Lead To No Jobs, No Respect, And No Success - And How to Solve Them (Even Though You've Never Written A Script Before)

The 7 elements needed for a viable story idea are: Punishing, Relatable, Original, Believable, Life-altering, Entertaining, and Meaningful. (Erik Bork, author of IDEA, THE & writer for HBO's Band of Brothers)
Your Story's Idea Matters!

Are you ready to create numerous story ideas, develop originality, and craft loglines to pitch your story to Netflix, Hulu, or Disney/Pixar?

- My name is Jay | Story obsessed
- Drummer & Songwriter for over 20+ years Now Turned Screenwriter
- Screenwriting Podcast Enthusiast & Writer/Reader of over 100+ works on scripts, books, and works in story/storytelling

  • Learn to create endless story ideas

  • Develop time-management for your daily writing

  • Be confident in selling your story's pitch to anyone

  • This free email course gives you the steps to creating, developing, and pitching your story's idea from your friends, to strangers, and to studio executives

90% of stories fail at the premise [idea] level. (John Truby, author of Anatomy of Story)

Want to make sure this free email course is “worth it” before you sign-up?

Here's everything that's inside:

Day 1: The mistake of rushing the creative ideation process, warnings against doing it, and tips to foster creativity without judgment.Day 2: The mistake of borrowing from other successful concepts, thinking through the topic of originality, and how to cultivate it for a beginning screenwriter.Day 3: The mistake and concept of daily writing, how it can make or break the artist, and the need to cultivate it daily.Day 4: The mistake of aiming for money only, the right mindset for a screenwriter and how one's love of story will be the true measure of success.Day 5: The mistake of not having a logline, their importance, their elements, and the need to write one early so that you can pitch your story to anybody and anywhere - loglines are concise, memorable, and faithful to the story's essence.

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P.S. If you don't find the email in your inbox in the next couple of minutes, please check your spam folder...Chances are it ended up there.(Since I'm relatively new to sending emails to my list, sometimes the "email algorithms" think I'm a robot! 🤷🏻)