THE SCREENPLAY FORGE IS LIVE — ONLY 20 SPOTS LEFT

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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.

It’s already working inside this community. Thia Markson walked in four months ago carrying a story she’d held for decades, with no idea how to tell it. This month, she was named a finalist in the Oxford Script Awards.

Her words:

“I have been carrying this story in my bones for decades…it could only happen here in the Writer’s Forge!”

You’ll get:

• 16 weeks of direct professional coaching on your project

• Live teaching, weekly hot seats, deadlines, and accountability

• The Character Engine: wound, lie, small life, desire, breaking point, and primal drive

• The Diner Test—the gate your protagonist must pass before you write the script

• Treatment and scriptment development before screenplay pages begin

• Weekly page targets designed to get you through a complete draft

• Guest sessions with working industry professionals

You don’t need a finished draft to join. You can arrive with an idea, a partial script, a draft that needs rebuilding, or a memoir or novel you want to adapt.

But you do need to write every week, make hard choices, and be open to direct professional feedback.

This is not a place to talk about writing instead of writing.

16 WEEKS THAT COULD CHANGE YOUR LIFE

I’m limiting the cohort to 25 people because this is live, project-based work that depends on my direct involvement in every writer’s story.

Five spots are already taken.

Admission is application-only, and it begins with a conversation. We’ll talk about your story, where it’s stuck, and whether this is the right room for you.

Doors close Friday, July 24.

But remember, every call booked is one less space available, so it could sell out well before the 24th. Don't wait til the last minute to book a call.

Book your call here.

If you already know you want in, you can skip the call and just DM me “FORGE” directly. I’ll take it from there.

Don’t book if you only want to hear that your draft is already great.

Book if you’re ready to finish the screenplay you’ve been carrying.

If you're ready to face your insecurities and fears. And do the best work of your life.

Come inside. And let's get to work!

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THE SCREENPLAY FORGE IS LIVE — ONLY 20 SPOTS LEFT