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Here's What To Expect

  • Master the Essential Building Blocks to a Successful Story.

  • Learn the Mechanics and Techniques of Storytelling.

  • How to Write a Treatment that Guides you Through your First Draft and Identifies Soft Spots in your Story.

  • Understand the Rules of Revision

  • Learn the Secrets of the 3-Act Structure.

Meet Your Coach

Kenneth Atchity

Coach / Instructor

Dr. Atchity (Yale PhD, Georgetown BA) has worked with writers since he became editor-in-chief of his high school Prep News more than fifty years ago. He’s a writer himself (20 books and counting, fiction and nonfiction), and works as an editor, professor, publishing consultant, speaker at writers’ conferences, literary manager, and producer. In pursuit of his lifelong mission to help storytellers get their stories to their maximum audience and adjusting to the volatile writing marketplace, he’s created a set of “sister companies” that serve every writer’s needs: thewriterslifeline.com, storymerchant.com, Atchity Productions, Atchity-Wong Productions, and storymerchantbooks.com. Atchity has produced dozens of films to date, with a half dozen more approaching production. To keep up with the needs of storytellers in a constantly-changing story marketplace, Ken believes in thinking outside the box.

Course Curriculum

    1. How to use this course

    2. Before we begin...

    3. Getting Your Story Straight

    4. 3 Things Writers Need to Know

    5. What is a Story?

    1. Plot

    2. Structure Part 1 | Three Act Structure, The Rule of 3’s, & Cold Opens

    3. Chart of Three Act TV Structure

    4. Structure Part 2 | Openings & Cliffhangers

    5. Structure Part 3 | Turning Points & Plot Twists

    6. Theme

    7. Setting

    8. Quiz 1

    1. Introduction to Character

    2. Supporting Characters

    3. Protagonists Part One | The Four Elements of a Hero

    4. Protagonists Part Two | Examples

    5. Antagonists

    6. Quiz 2

    1. Point of View

    2. Intensity & Drama

    3. Intensity Chart Example

    4. Revision

    5. The Treatment

    6. Treatment Example - Angels in the Snow

    7. Treatment Example - Joe Somebody

    8. Final Exam

    1. Closing Thoughts

    1. 1 on 1 Virtual Coaching Oppurtunities

    2. Story Merchant Academy Suggested Reading

About this course

  • $189.00
  • 30 lessons
  • 2.5 hours of video content

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