Online Courses
Ealing Studios London
Professional TV Writing Skills
If you want to write for TV or film, whether conventional or nonlinear, it’s essential that you first learn your core plotting skills, that is, how to plan, create and interweave conventional, three act chronological stories. You can’t wing it because you have to write multiple storylines and jump between them at specific structural moment in each, all at speed, under pressure and within logistical and budgetary restrictions.
The best way to learn this in a TV Writers’ Room, out of the question for most writers.
To fill the gap Linda Aronson has created the Real World TV Writing course, a packed self-guided foundation course specifically designed to provide and practice writers in professional, tried-and-tested techniques and strategies in speed skills, inventing and interweaving quality storylines and, crucially, writing within the limitations of sets, actor availability, scheduling, budget and logistics. Writers learn by doing, so under guidance, students write a practice TV pilot.
Endorsements
After 20 years working in TV and cinema it was terrific to find, discover and apply new tools that are going to remain in my day-to-day work. Also, it was very helpful to understand much better how to build up long stories, to detect some mistakes I made in the past and to learn how to prevent them in the future.
Martín Román
Scriptwriter and Script Content and Development Advisor
I feel like I've learned so much in such a short space of time. I enjoyed working my way through the exercises and I'm already employing what I've learned in a couple of projects I'm co-writing with novice writers who want to tell very personal stories. Having a solid workflow in terms of character design, beats and story strands has really helped me structure the way we work together in a measured and strategic manner, whilst also allowing us to see/track tangible progress without feeling the need to leap straight into writing a first draft.
A big thank you to Linda for setting up and running the course
Nicola Lees
Scriptwriter and Script Consultant
This course was terrific. If the opportunity comes to do one of Linda's courses, don’t pass it up.
What I gained is experience with contemporary multi story serial / series writing, done under pressure and within budgetary and set constraints. And done to order. I uncovered habits in my own writing that needed attention. Linda’s ‘story muscle’ technique for brainstorming new ideas has now become part of my toolkit. Linda’s relentless demonstration and exercises in how to build the stories, how to meld them into a whole, and to end up with something that’s more than the sum of its parts was a revelation. And when Linda is talking, she’s a joy to listen to. Anecdotes and examples spill out. Her analytical approach is an education, and her enthusiasm is inescapable. I’m already a better writer because of her influence, but just as importantly, I can see how to keep improving.
Patrick Carr
Playwright
Endorsements
“At last you will understand Pulp Fiction! All the vague confusing things that teachers and studio executives say about flashback, turning points and multiple protagonists are whipped into coherent shape, in a comprehensive, precise and extremely practical theory.”
Christopher Vogler
Author of The Writers' Journey
“A brilliant book. Linda Aronson is one of the great and important voices on screenwriting.”
Dr Linda Seger
Dr Linda Seger Leading Script Structure expert. Author of Making a Good Script Great
