It says great! wonderful! Almost perfect. I'll keep fashioning it. (hopeful, yet not over confidently)

or just let me make my movie. This is the one pager i sent off to ZOS/BETHESDA/MICROSOFT: what do you think?

David Stem has said, “Character should never be built using rigid formulaic structures. Instead, their structural arc must emerge entirely from an internal psychological battle that drives global, multi-billion-dollar commercial appeal. These calls are the guerrilla warfare of screenwriting. People are respectful and polite, but no one ever improved their script by getting their mom or friends who don’t understand the craft to read their pages. The magic happens in the high-stakes and synergistic dynamics of a group of writers working on a story with screenwriting veteran David Stem steering the chaos. Reach out to me, Anna Fermin, or David Stem directly if you need support or have any questions in bringing your pages to a premium call. Here’s the link to where you put up your casting and your pages. Here’s the link for the Tuesday July 7th Premium Coach Call.   Here’s the link for the Friday, July 10th Premium Coach Call.

And it will transform your writing quickly if you let it. I watch it play out every week on the Premium calls. People come in doing what they've been taught. Save the Cat. Beat sheets. Get the hero out on a journey. They end up with scripts even they don't love. Uninspired, but "technically" correct. Then after a few sessions in The Forge, they lean hard into character and their work takes flight. Case in point: Thia joined mid-March. She'd been carrying her story in her bones for decades. Rugby, found family, belonging. A life nobody else lived. She was trying to write it as a memoir and getting nowhere. Four months later: Finalist, Oxford Script Awards. Selected by the Cannes Script Festival out of 410 submissions. Quarter-Finalist, LA International Screenplay Awards. Festival directors are finding her project and personally inviting her to submit. Her first screenplay. So what changed in March? Not more structure. No beat sheets. No 18 plot points. She started before structure. She found the wound, the lie, the small life, the primal question. She used the Primal Forge GPT to dig until the emotional engine of her story was alive. Once it was, the story she couldn't crack for decades practically wrote itself. Structure became the loose cage that barely contained it. That's the method. Thia plugged in come March. You saw what happened by July. If you've been here a while, you've seen this work in your own pages. Drop your story below. New here and want to know how this applies to YOUR screenplay? Comment NEW and I'll personally reach out.

I'm titling my presentation video: "Shrek 2" Script Doctor Helps Build My Elder Scrolls Fan Film I hope that's kosher with you. I'm sure I'll do you proud.