Aaron Sorkin: But, and Then, Except | MasterClass Moments | MasterClass

If your friend is telling you a story, you’ll tune out until you hear one of three words. Aaron Sorkin explains where narratives get their momentum.

In addition to both improving your storytelling skills and outlining what it takes to write incredible scripts, Aaron invites you into his writer’s room for an eight-part screenwriting case study where he and his team will script, rewrite, and break down a new Season 5 premiere of The West Wing.

Diving deep into screenwriting fundamentals, Aaron offers detailed lessons on narrative structure, character development, generating new ideas, and his signature style of dialogue. Aaron knows that great screenwriting requires intention and obstacle. He dedicates several lessons to explaining how to create conflict, raise dramatic stakes, and keep audiences watching. Designed to offer useful lessons to seasoned and emerging screenwriters, Aaron’s class can be enjoyed by writers of all skill levels.

Aaron’s screenwriting MasterClass will reinvigorate your screenplays with 35 exclusive video lessons and a customized workbook tailored to each chapter. In this online class, Aaron teaches how to:

• Create intention and obstacle
• Develop unforgettable characters
• Hook audiences from the opening scene
• Write compelling dialogue
• Add momentum to your scenes
• Apply and subvert the rules of drama
• Research and gather material
• Establish consistent writing habits
• Overcome writer’s block
• Pitch screenplays

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[davidolden]

I had my MacBook Pro, and a second folding chair to use for a desk. The gulls were calling, the waves were crashing, and wow, this was all SO going to PUT ME IN THE ZONE!

Then the vehicles started showing up. Box vans and trailer trucks and passenger vans, and
way off near the parking lot, is that Craft Services setting up?

Is this a location shoot?

Someone, walkie hanging from their belt, was tying a large signboard to a fence, all gaudy fluorescent inks, an arrow pointing away from the trucks: WEST WING'S SUMMER HOLIDAY =>.

It was a perfect idea: Write about surfing at the beach.

But then Aaron Sorkin and his crew showed up, muscle me out of my zone!

There goes THAT idea.

[jfrsnjhnsn]

You don't have an idea until you work in an ex-girlfriend character with an unlikely name. If it is about surfers, make sure they are surfers who want to make political statements.

[loxzone]

Is payment deducted immediately after sign up or at the end of 365 days?

[anunc]

Does anyone know if there's a way to pay for just this masterclass, and not have to get a year's subscription?

[OneHandClap]

i love how they call this a masterclass--this is high school writing workshop advice at best

[mohammedtarrek]

This dude sounds more confused than me

[dexked]

Just came here to respond to the out of touch comment that no one starts a sentence with damnit.... i start 90% of my sentences with damnit... shows how little this man struggles in his day to day. I wonder what he thinks a gallon of milk costs.

[spenser]

No shit, Sorkin. This guy states the obvious and acts as if he's a genius.