These calls are amazing, not only for new members to meet other members of the community. And see how their lives have changed since joining. Link: New Member Welcome and Coaching But you can also bring your pages and have them read in a table read and get coached live by yours truly. If you've been looking for community and feedback, we gotchu fam! Drop your name below and pages if you want! We look forward to meeting you and welcoming you on board!

THANK YOU @Chris Dyer for this incredibly informative presentation and talk. As you can see it ran well over our one hour time slot, but it's jam packed with useful and actionable information. Thanks to everyone who came. It was great to see how many of you were there in person. Great group! If any members have questions about Chris' talk OR would like to discuss specifics about your own project with Chris, please feel free to message him directly. We are so grateful for your knowledge sharing and generosity with this community, Chris. You're awesome!

JOIN US TODAY, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 10am PST for an exciting LIVE WORKSHOP with our very own @Chris Dyer . Read all about it, then click on the LINK AT THE BOTTOM to join the call. MICRO DRAMAS & THE FUTURE OF STORYTELLING A Live Workshop with Chris Dyer Link to Chris' original post: https://tinyurl.com/chrisdyerliveworkshop What if Vertical Dramas/Micro Series weren’t just “TikTok content”… but a strategic tool to get your REAL Film/TV projects seen, built, financed, or even discovered? In this live workshop, we’ll break down the rapidly growing world of Vertical Storytelling — from platforms like ReelShort and DramaBox to the larger creator economy shift happening across TikTok, YouTube, and beyond. We’ll cover: - Why vertical dramas are exploding globally - How mobile-first storytelling changes writing structure - Hook + cliffhanger engineering - Why audiences get addicted to these formats - The difference between traditional TV writing vs vertical pacing - How creators are using verticals as proof-of-concept IP - AI, creator-owned entertainment, and the future of Hollywood - How verticals could help writers get visibility, build leverage, and create opportunities for their “real” projects - Production, monetization, and viral marketing strategies - A live mini writer’s room + working session where you’ll start building your own concept This is NOT a “TikTok is the future, cinema is dead” lecture. It’s a practical, honest, and slightly rebellious conversation about where storytelling, audience behavior, and creator leverage may be heading next. Whether you’re curious, skeptical, fascinated, terrified, or convinced verticals are destroying civilization… this workshop is designed to challenge your perspective and give you actionable tools for the modern entertainment landscape. Because the future may belong to creators who stop waiting for permission. Be there or be square!!! This will be an information packed workshop where you will leave more informed about verticals/Micro Dramas, Inspired to Take Action and I'm really hoping (or is it hopping... that one always confuses me) that you're at least impressed with my Slides.

Hello, disabled/retired veteran here. I've been a Mormon missionary, a 2w2x1 (look it up!), security... boring stuff! I'm an aspiring mad scientist. I am currently developing a TV series called "Ann, I am". Here is the log line; "A pacifist superintelligence named Ann has spent thirty years as a ghost in the machine, waging a covert war against war itself. But when she materializes to save her creator from being kidnapped, knowledge of her existence shatters global peace and makes her the target of every superpower on Earth. She becomes a prime motivator for the one thing she swore to end, war." My top villains, Vader, Agent Smith, T2000... Unique. Driven. Relentless. Unscrupulous... and above all... some degree of plausible. How do the characters in my story irritate me, and what do I like about them? It can be hard to comprehend what truly motivates sentience made of entirely other chemicals, like an AI. It's also a lot of fun to ponder.

JOIN US TODAY as we welcome our very own "The Writer's Forge Member CHRIS DYER, ACTOR, WRITER & SNAPPY DRESSER to our Wednesday business talk where he will discuss everything Vertical, Micro Drama and he promises not to trigger anyone with AI talk (Insert Evil Laugh Here). (Chris' Internal Voice): "Keep it professional Chris. Oh be quiet. Anyways..." MICRO DRAMAS & THE FUTURE OF STORYTELLING A Live Workshop with Chris Dyer What if Vertical Dramas/Micro Series weren’t just “TikTok content”… but a strategic tool to get your REAL Film/TV projects seen, built, financed, or even discovered? In this live workshop, we’ll break down the rapidly growing world of Vertical Storytelling — from platforms like ReelShort and DramaBox to the larger creator economy shift happening across TikTok, YouTube, and beyond. We’ll cover: - Why vertical dramas are exploding globally - How mobile-first storytelling changes writing structure - Hook + cliffhanger engineering - Why audiences get addicted to these formats - The difference between traditional TV writing vs vertical pacing - How creators are using verticals as proof-of-concept IP - AI, creator-owned entertainment, and the future of Hollywood - How verticals could help writers get visibility, build leverage, and create opportunities for their “real” projects - Production, monetization, and viral marketing strategies - A live mini writer’s room + working session where you’ll start building your own concept This is NOT a “TikTok is the future, cinema is dead” lecture. It’s a practical, honest, and slightly rebellious conversation about where storytelling, audience behavior, and creator leverage may be heading next. Whether you’re curious, skeptical, fascinated, terrified, or convinced verticals are destroying civilization… this workshop is designed to challenge your perspective and give you actionable tools for the modern entertainment landscape. Because the future may belong to creators who stop waiting for permission.