EMOTIONAL AUTHORSHIP: CREATING CHARACTERS THAT MATTER A 3-Session Workshop

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This is a 3-session live workshop. I'll be working with each writer individually, so enrollment is limited.

👉 Sign up now → Emotional Authorship Workshop

Enrollment closes: Midnight PT, Jan 31

I taught this in December because it's the absolute foundation of how I see character and script — developed over 25 years of writing and selling at the highest level.

To me, this is second nature. But I was amazed to see the light come on in writers' eyes as they came in with great ideas and scripts that "technically" worked... but didn't land.

The truth is, you can read all the books and still not see your own work with fresh eyes. You end up chasing your tail through rewrite after rewrite, hoping the next one magically fixes what's wrong.

But you can't fix what you can't diagnose.

This workshop changes that. It gives you the same tools I used writing $2.5 billion in box office hits.

The writers who took this left knowing exactly what their story was about — and why it had never fully worked before. I'm sure some of them will drop into the comments to tell you about their experience.

This didn't happen because of inspiration. It happened because of a diagnostic framework I've developed over the last 25 years.

The problem

Most writers today are taught the externals of what happens.

Very few are taught why it matters — to the character or the audience.

So you end up with:

Clean structure
Correct beats
A perfectly reasonable outline

…and a story nobody really gives a damn about.

Why? Because most screenwriting books are written by technocrats who've never actually made their living as writers. They've never gone into a studio and made an executive damn near cry in a meeting that led to landing a two-picture deal — like my partner and I did with Sherry Lansing at Paramount.

The missing layer

Every story that works is powered by the same internal engine:

Wound → Lie → Healing

The wound shapes how the character sees the world.The lie drives every choice they make.The story exists to break that lie — or force healing.

When this is clear:Plot stops being a guessing game.Scenes stop feeling engineered.Rewrites stop being random.

This is the lens I use when I diagnose scripts — and it's now the backbone of how I coach.

What you get

✅ Three live sessions (4.5 hours total)