Until you know what you are trying to say,
your work isn’t complete
The writing process is a search for meaning, a theme, what the story is really about, what gives it meaning and a purpose for being, besides making millions of dollars for stars and movie studios.
Theme is a unifying idea or motif, repeated or developed throughout a work.
Once you have something you want to write about (Idea), defined the Premise and Concept, and know what your genre is, you need to know what the intention, objective or controlling idea – theme – of your story is.
If you want to write your story, The Writing Studio is offering a 50% discount on The Write Journey course, which is done via email correspondence.
The Write Journey is an interactive, intimate and introspective journey into the world of story, empowering writers to take ownership of the creative journey, and creative expression.
If you have completed the draft of a screenplay, stageplay, or manuscript for a novel, it is vital to find out whether or not your story works. It could mean the end of all your hard work and your career as a writer if you hand poorly written and undeveloped projects over to producers, directors, publishers or potential investors.
If you want your script or manuscript polished professionally, The Writing Studio will turn your copy into exciting and thrilling narrative, into words and images that jump off the page and characters that resonate.
Good news is that every Thursday throughout May, a new play will premiere on YouTube at 7pm BST (8pm in South Africa), available to watch for free, for a week.This Thursday (21 May) you in for a REAL TREAT!!!!
You can experience live theatre at its most exciting with Australian director Benedict Andrews’ imaginative and breath-taking staging of Tennessee Williams’ iconic masterwork A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. It features top notch performances from Gillian Anderson (The X-Files, The Fall, Sex Education) who plays Blanche DuBois with Ben Foster (Lone Survivor, Kill Your Darlings) as Stanley and Vanessa Kirby (The Crown, Mission Impossible 7) as Stella.
Learn how to tell stories and make films from the world’s master filmmakers and screenwriters
If you want to learn how to be screenwriter and filmmaker, why not learn from the best.
The Writing Studio’s exclusive in depth articles on filmmaking and screenwriting show how inspiration instills passion, how ideas are born, nurtured and realised, how the conventions of genre are challenged, themes explored to its fullest, and characters brought to life.
These personal notes from producers reveal to what extent filmmakers and screenwriters will go to realise their dreams and make the most of each story they tell.
Develop the Write Attitude with The Writing Studio
During the last 20 Years The Writing Studio has taken many leading filmmakers in South Africa from first idea to success on the big screen locally and internationally.
If you want to sign up for one of our courses in creative writing or screenwriting, or want to have your screenplay / manuscript evaluated or edited, send us an email.
