Screenwriting For Beginners

Welcome to your first next big step.

A FREE email course designed by a professional screenwriter to teach you the most efficient way to learn to write screenplays.

A FREE email course designed by a professional screenwriter to teach you the most efficient way to learn to write screenplays.

Don't let screenwriting intimidate you.

The hardest part is often just getting started. The best way to get through that is to always know your next step.

So, if you're new to screenwriting, here it is.

It's my FREE email course, Screenwriting for Beginners.

In this course, you'll learn everything you need to get your journey started in the right direction.

It's what I wish I knew when I first thought over 30 years ago, "I think I'd like to write a screenplay."

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. 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.

The Screenwriting For Beginners course is absolutely free.