Mentorships

Linda Aronson is a masterful screenwriting teacher. I did her mentorship on both feature film and tv-series, and – as an experienced writer herself as well as an inspiring analyst – she taught me how to develop ambitious ideas and stories and to work playfully with structure and genre. She provided me with the toolbox of a professional writer that has since prevented me from ever suffering from writer’s block. Thanks to Linda I learned how to identify problems in my stories and how to fix them. Besides being busy with screenwriting jobs, I am about to publish my first novel, a political thriller, with a prestigious publishing house, and I would never have had the courage to embark on such a challenging project, had it not been for Linda’s mentorship.”

I truly enjoy working with Linda. As a mentor, not only is she incredibly wise, caring and brilliantly creative, she wrote the book on the art of crafting and creating a story, and she has this fine-tuned emotional intelligence to match her magical cognitive powers. Her methods work. They are clear and simple yet powerful tools. She understands people and scriptwriting and the industry, and she communicates all these ideas with ease. She has reduced my mean and disturbingly stressful inner critic to an old friend who only stops by when needed. She is a wonderful teacher and I thank her for mentoring me and also for her patience and fabulous sense of humour. She has transformed my writing. I hope my mentorship never ends. 

In the vast field of screenwriting gurus Linda Aronson is a rare species,  as she is both technically on a super high level AND wonderfully clear in her way of teaching her techniques to others. When I first came to her I was very insecure as a writer and had some what of a crazy mindset. She helped me structure my mind and my ideas – and was the first one really to tell my that I had a unique talent and just needed the right taming.

I left her with great sadness and much confidence – and have been working in the industry non stop ever since. I recently sold the film idea I developed on Linda's tutoring programme to an international acclaimed production company. 

Being taught by Linda was the first act turning point of my professional career. I often hear her voice in the back of my mind, when my mind strays and I fall back into old patterns. It’s quite comforting that she is right there.

Linda Aronson is extremely rigorous. You can already tell by her books, but in person you will see that she demands specificity, long-term thinking, and wild imagination at the same time. Get ready to raise your game! Linda’s method of TV plotting has improved my feature and fiction writing by leaps and bounds. Her sharp eye and generosity of insight has given me new benchmarks to evaluate myself and get out of jams quickly and with sensitivity. I would recommend her classes to anyone who wants to cut through the noise and learn sensible, practical and powerful ways to think about their work. 

If you manage to get a job in telly, Linda’s techniques will help you keep it. This is not just more theory. She really goes into the nitty gritty - how to write and develop a multi strand story, how to write a zinger of a scene by scene, how to write to production constraints - and how to get it all done in double quick time. It’s genuinely invaluable.