Enrollment LIMITED, Closes SOON. Most of you have seen me coach writers in this community. You've watched me take a character that felt flat, confused, or inconsistent… and in minutes the entire story unlocks. Suddenly the writer knows exactly what their hero wants, why they're stuck, and what the film is actually about. Here's the truth: That's not intuition. That's not magic. It's a system I built over 25 years of pitching and landing writing jobs on massive studio films — the kind everyone in Hollywood is fighting for. I call it Emotional Authorship — and until now, I've never taught it publicly. 👉 ENROLL NOW — $397 Go to Classroom → "Emotional Authorship Intensive" https://www.skool.com/the-writers-forge/classroom ⸻ What Emotional Authorship Actually Is Most writing tools focus on plot structure (Save the Cat, Hero's Journey, etc). But structure is useless without a story that has a beating heart. Structure tells you what happens. It does not tell you why it matters — to your character or to your audience. Emotional Authorship is the missing layer. It's the framework behind every major film I've written or rewritten: Shrek 2, Jimmy Neutron, The Rugrats Movies, Are We There Yet?, The Smurfs, Disenchanted — and it's why studios kept calling me when the scripts they developed weren't landing. The system comes down to three elements: ⸻ 1. The Wound 💔 Sometimes the Wound is trauma. More often it's naivete — a mistaken belief about how the world works. Example: Shrek isn't relatable because he's an ogre. He's relatable because he's the ultimate bachelor — living a self-protective life that hides deep fear. He's convinced he doesn't need anyone. That's his wound. Fiona's wound mirrors the other side of the same insecurity: She believes no matter how she presents herself on the outside, she'll never be enough as she truly is. That's universal — and why audiences connected so deeply. ⸻ 2. The Lie 🎭