Master the art of screenplay revision in this focused 4-week workshop. Learn how to perform precise scene-level surgery while protecting what makes your script special. Through targeted instruction and hands-on exercises, you’ll develop essential rewriting tools including a personalized Rewrite Plot Map and Character Story Maps. Each session combines practical revision techniques with live workshopping of participants’ rewritten opening pages, helping you strengthen structure, deepen characters, and sharpen dialogue without losing your story’s unique voice. By workshop’s end, you’ll have both a strategic revision roadmap and practical feedback on your opening pages – everything you need to transform your rough draft into a market-ready screenplay.
ZOOM Class Meeting Dates: September 9, 16, 23, & 30 (Wednesdays)
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
$75 workshop alumni
$100 new participants
Optional Add-On: Detailed in-line/manuscript feedback on your first five pages.
$50
Transform Your Script From Good to Unforgettable
Your screenplay has potential. You can feel it. But something’s not clicking—a scene drags, dialogue falls flat, or the pacing stumbles. You know it needs work, but where do you make the cuts without bleeding out the soul of your story?
Welcome to Script Surgery.
This isn’t about tearing your script apart and starting over. This is about surgical precision—identifying exactly what needs fixing and making targeted improvements that elevate your entire screenplay.
What You’ll Master in 4 Weeks:
- Scene-Level Diagnosis: Spot the difference between scenes that work and scenes that waste pages
- Precision Cutting: Remove what’s not working without losing what’s magical
- Dialogue Surgery: Sharpen conversations that reveal character and drive story
- Pacing Operations: Fix rhythm issues that make readers put scripts down
- Structure Repair: Strengthen your story’s backbone without major reconstruction
The Format That Actually Works:
Live Online Sessions: Tuesdays 7-9pm ET (September 9-30)
Get real-time feedback, ask burning questions, and workshop scenes with fellow writers who get it.
Plus Weekly On-Demand Lectures: Dive deeper into techniques on your schedule. Rewatch the tricky parts. Learn at your own pace.
Your Instructors Know What Works
Led by industry professionals who’ve been in the rewrite trenches—and emerged with scripts that sell.
Investment in Your Script’s Future:
- Workshop Alumni: $75 (because you’re family)
- New Participants: $100
- Optional Script Surgery Add-On: +$50 for detailed line-by-line feedback on your first five pages (the pages that matter most)
Ready to Stop Wondering and Start Fixing?
Your script doesn’t need a complete overhaul—it needs precision. Four weeks from now, you’ll have the skills to make any screenplay stronger, tighter, and impossible to put down.
Enrollment closes soon. Your script’s breakthrough is waiting.
“The difference between a good script and a great one isn’t talent—it’s knowing exactly what to cut and what to keep.” – Every working screenwriter, ever
2025 Workshop Schedule
- September: Script Surgery – The Art of Precision Rewriting
- November: The Things They Carry
