Regain your true north in your storytelling.

How to identify and map the entire character journey in your screenplay.

Enrollment is closed.

This mini-course is only available as a special offer.

Your Instructor: Tom Vaughan

I started writing professionally twenty-eight years ago. I've had eight movies made and two more in production this year. I am proud of all the ups and downs of my career, but if you really want to understand a subject, I recommend teaching it.

I have been teaching for 22 years now. It forced me to communicate the why behind so many of the decisions I made as a screenwriter. In doing so, these decisions became tools, accessible whenever I needed them.

As I became a better teacher, I became a better writer. As I became a better writer, I became a better teacher.
When I struggle with any of my own projects, these are the principles I fall back on.

Because of my teaching, I finally have what I lacked early in my career: a tangible and repeatable process to maximize the full potential of a story idea and tell the story I am trying to tell to the best of my abilities.

That's what these classes are about. And Go Coogs!

If you want to read more about my bona fides, you can click HERE.

Just some of the companies that have hired me to write or I've sold screenplays to.

WHY STORY AND PLOT?

Unlike other screenwriting classes, the Story and Plot workshops are taught by a working professional of over 28 years who has taught the subject for nearly as long.

This is not an academic theory. It is not a glamorized interview broken up into segments. These are tangible processes that have been refined and tested literally over decades. The courses are designed to communicate layered ideas simply and clearly, and to give specific, concrete steps to empower the student's writing and storytelling.