One Script Can Absolutely Change Your Life.

But it's got to be the right one.

The Organic Story Structure Workshop offers an alternative to the outdated rules and formulas found in most classes and books. This class is for writers wanting a deeper understanding of how to create original, professionally-crafted, personalized stories capable of having maximum emotional impact. The kinds of scripts required to have any chance of success.

Participants learn the required tools of Sequence Writing, Compelling Questions, Heart of Darkness, Modern Story Design, Long Form Bisociation Story Engines, and how to use Creative Integration to layer these narrative building blocks together to write the kinds of scripts most in demand in the current marketplace.

That's why over 3,000 of our graduates now have writing careers.

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Write the Best Possible Scripts

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Write Scripts That Can Sell

The great William Goldman once said, “Yes, nifty dialogue helps one hell of a lot; sure, it’s nice if you can bring your characters to life. But you can have terrific characters spouting just swell talk to each other, and if the structure is unsound, forget it.”

Lucy Prebble, writer on Succession, and showrunner of I Hate Suzie, put it this way, "If you’re like me, someone who’s good with the emotional side of writing, but struggles with structure, you need to learn the structure building blocks, especially if you're writing for TV."

If you're struggling with Story Structure, you're simply not doing it the right way. Come learn the way the best writers do it. It will make story structure so much easier, quicker, and far more successful for you.

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How Does This Work?

You'll have access to all the lectures, writing exercises, successful examples from current TV shows and movies, as well as all of the other recorded content for one full year, so you can do this state-of-the-art training at your convenience, at your pace.

Plus, you won't be left all alone.

Corey will be available to you through monthly Q & A sessions on Zoom to answer any questions you might have about any of the training. These interactive sessions will be recorded, so if you can't attend one of them, you'll be able to email Corey your questions to be answered during the live session.

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Learn From An Expert

Corey Mandell is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter who has written projects for Ridley Scott, Harrison Ford, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Julia Roberts, Warner Brothers, Universal, 20th Century Fox, Fox 2000, Working Title, Paramount, Live Planet, Beacon Films, Touchstone, Trilogy, Radiant, Kopelson Entertainment and Disney.

His students and clients have sold scripts to Warner Brothers, Paramount, HBO, Netflix, FX, Amazon, Disney, Universal, MGM, Showtime, NBC, ABC, MTV, Sony, Nickelodeon, A24, and Hulu.

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Corey Mandell is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter who has written projects for Ridley Scott, Wolfgang Petersen, Harrison Ford, Meg Ryan, Julia Roberts, John Travolta, Warner Brothers, Universal, 20th Century Fox, Fox 2000, Fox Family, Working Title, Paramount, Live Planet, Beacon Films, Touchstone, Trilogy, Radiant, Kopelson Entertainment and Walt Disney Pictures. His Professional Screenwriting and Television Writing Workshops offer an alternative to the same old tired rules and formulas found in most screenwriting classes, books and seminars. This innovative program is the only one to teach creative integration, script testing, compelling conflict, organic story design, strategic rewriting and story mapping. With these tools, writers are able to create the pitch-perfect authentic scripts required to break into, and thrive in, the current marketplace. In the past three years, over a hundred graduates have gone on to sell or option scripts to Warner Brothers, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Disney, Fox, MGM, Universal, Netflix, Showtime, FX, USA Network, NBC, HBO, MTV and AMC. Others have been staffed on such shows as Stranger Things, Community, The Fosters, Jane the Virgin, Bones, Justified, BoJack Horseman, Young and Hungry, Playing House, The Mentalist, Marvel’s Agents of Shield, Mozart in the Jungle, State of Affairs, Rosewood, The Leftovers, You’re the Worst, Pretty Little Liars, Treme, The Blacklist and Mr. Robot. The Workshops teach the essential skill sets required to write at a professional level, both for feature films and television. The classes are offered live in Los Angeles as well as online using video conferencing to allow participants to see and hear each other in real time. These highly popular classes draw students from across the US, Europe and Australia. With the recent explosion of television pilots being bought, and a healthy rebound in the feature spec script market, there’s never been a better time to jump into the writing game. One script absolutely can change your life. But it’s got to be the right script. If you’re serious about developing the skills required to launch a career, these workshops can help take years off your learning curve and signi

Proven Success

Writers who have trained with Corey have gotten staffed on such shows as Stranger Things, Ted Lasso, Wandavision, Mr. Robot, Station Eleven, Bojack Horseman, The Leftovers, The Handmaid's Tale, Brooklyn Nine-Nine,Yellowstone, Marvel's Agents of Shield, This is Us, Schitt's Creek, You're the Worst, Star Trek: Prodigy, Pen15, Selena, Community, The Walking Dead, Ozark, and Succession
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Course curriculum

  • 1

    Please Start Here

    • Welcome to the Workshop

    • Additional Training

    • How to Take This Course

    • In Case You Want Extra Support

    • Get Your Work Reviewed
  • 2

    Question Tool

    • Why This Tool is So Important

    • Avoid These Common Mistakes

    • Question Tool Training

    • Successful Movie Examples

    • Successful TV Examples

    • Nail Your Answers

    • Writing Review Intensives
  • 3

    Compelling Characters

    • Your Two Choices

    • Common Attributes of Compelling Characters

    • The Secret to Success
  • 4

    Heart of Darkness Tool

    • Why This Tool is So Important

    • Heart of Darkness Training

    • Using Heart of Darkness

    • HOD for Comedy Writers

    • The Fire (Escalating HOD)

    • Can I Change the HOD?

    • Writing Review Intensives
  • 5

    H.E.R.O Tool

    • Why This Tool is So Important

    • H.E.R.O Training

    • H.E.R.O. Examples
  • 6

    Long Form Story Engines

    • Make any Script Better

    • Why You Need a Story Engine

    • Bisociation

    • Bisociation Engine Proof

    • The Challenge to Overcome

    • Creating the Strongest Story Engines

    • Avoid These Mistakes

    • Successful Comedy Engines

    • Successful Drama Engines
  • 7

    Professional Story Design

    • You Can Do This

    • Pitch-Perfect Authentic Examples

    • Plot Casting Story Design

    • Additional Resources

There's Never Been a Better Time To Do This

With the recent explosion of television pilots being bought, and a healthy rebound in the feature spec script market, there’s never been a better time to jump into the writing game.

One script absolutely can change your life. But it’s got to be the right script. If you’re serious about developing the skills required to launch a career, this On-Demand workshop can help take years off your learning curve and significantly increase your chances of success.

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