Do you have a screenplay you care about deeply—but can’t make it land? Maybe it’s an idea you can’t shake. Fifty pages you can’t finish. Six outlines and no draft. Or a story you’ve carried for years without finding the right way to tell it. That all changes this week. I’m launching The Screenplay Forge: a 16-week, high-touch cohort where 25 serious writers will develop and finish a screenplay or pilot—with me directly involved in their stories every week. I’ve spent 25+ years writing for every major studio. Shrek 2. Jimmy Neutron. Disenchanted. More than $2.5 billion at the box office. And after coaching hundreds of writers, I’ve seen the same problem again and again: A NEW WAY OF WRITING YOUR SCRIPT Most struggling scripts don’t have a structure problem. They have a story that was never fully alive. That’s because most screenwriting systems begin with plot: beat sheets, Save the Cat, the Hero’s Journey. Those tools can organize a story. They can’t bring one to life. The Screenplay Forge isn’t an incremental improvement on what you’ve been doing. It’s a radically different way to do it: a character-first process called the Primal Forge Method. Before you write a single plot point, you’ll uncover your character’s wound, lie, small life, desire, breaking point, and primal drive. Once that engine is alive, the story begins generating its own momentum—and structure becomes the loose cage that contains it. Inside The Screenplay Forge, we’ll reverse the usual process: Build the character engine. Forge the story in prose. Write the screenplay last—when it becomes the easy part. YOU DON'T HAVE TO FACE THE BLANK PAGE ALONE You won’t be working in the dark, hoping this method works for you. I’ll be with you every step of the way in an ongoing live workshop, where you’ll get direct professional feedback from someone who has sold screenplays and had movies made at pretty much every major studio in town. That kind of hands-on professional story development is something most screenwriters simply don’t have access to.

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.

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I am here to learn and absorb all I can about writing and developing the characters for my series I am working on now. The timing is impeccable. I don’t know if The Writer’s Forge found me or if I found it…I do know that I have A LOT of questions hahahahaha