The ISA's 30-Day Screenwriting Challenge 2024
The Challenge is No Longer Live. Purchase the Recording!
Set yourself a 30-Day deadline with this self-guided course.
Learn the tools to write a professional level draft in 30 days
Elevate your existing features or pilots
Develop the skills used in writer's rooms on network shows
30 days of recorded educational office hours support with Max Timm
You missed the live course, but now purchase the 30-Day Challenge as a Self-Guided Course and Deadline.
If your goal is to become a paid writer, be staffed on a show or to write on assignment, you need the skills to execute a professional level screenplay in a limited time frame.
Think you can do it? We do. And we've set up steps, assignments, and objectives to help you meet this goal.
This course features recordings of the daily zoom instruction with the ISA's Director of Education, Max Timm (you can check out his bio below). Each day of the course, Max walks you through the assignments and answers burning questions, providing the guidance needed to complete your next screenplay in 30 days.
You can commit to the 30 day timeline or go at your own pace. You will have unlimited access to this 30-Day Challenge coursework.
How Does it Work?
Each day of the Challenge, you will log in to your coursework (here on TheCraftCourse.com) and access a new set of written lectures, audio recordings, assignments, and daily inspiration that will get you organized, prepared, and working. Because this is a self-guided course, you could skip ahead and work through additional days' assignments.
This course is equal parts motivation and education. It's so much more than just a set of little reminders to get your writing in.
At the end of this 30-day course, not only will you have finished a script, but you’ll also have the tools to apply this method to future projects. You can restart the course as you’re developing a new project, get a writing assignment or are staffed on a show.
Many thanks to Max and ISA for this terrific course. I feel it's important to learn from as many different sources as possible, and for this course, I took a...
Read MoreMany thanks to Max and ISA for this terrific course. I feel it's important to learn from as many different sources as possible, and for this course, I took away a new understanding for the importance of a character's emotional flaw. I also loved the opening lectures about Finding Your Voice, and looking to one's own life for the Voice Pressure Points. Max is a gifted teacher. He has lots of experience to draw from, and his audio lessons were great. His warm voice and clear explanations were of great inspiration. A favorite of mine: his talk on the importance of accepting failure and to carry on despite it. The lesson on impatience was another keeper. Am truly grateful to have participated. Highly recommend. A+
Read LessLearn from mentors, produce by action, develop and format by the industry standards and believe in yourself enough to bring out the best in your investment f...
Read MoreLearn from mentors, produce by action, develop and format by the industry standards and believe in yourself enough to bring out the best in your investment for the people that believe in you! 100/100 Thank Max!
Read LessI am only on day three but I love your oh so concise course. I have had consults with Michael Hauge who helped me with one screenplay years ago. Another with...
Read MoreI am only on day three but I love your oh so concise course. I have had consults with Michael Hauge who helped me with one screenplay years ago. Another with Pilar Alessandro, also some time ago. I learned so much from each of them. But now I am trying something new ... a television pilot which will be a one hour series for a non-network channel. Yes, I am one of those lovely tv writers. Or nutso tv writers. But it is something I have inside me and I plan to do it.
Read LessYou are pushed hard to move through this course within the 30 Days but a lot of us need that to get things done. I'm one of them! You'll really learn a lot...
Read MoreYou are pushed hard to move through this course within the 30 Days but a lot of us need that to get things done. I'm one of them! You'll really learn a lot and get clarity from asking yourself the right questions. This course provides you with the right questions so you can move your story forward. Thank-you so much for sharing this with us!
Read LessOne of the best online courses. The 30-Day Challenge brought me back to the basics of screenwriting - the stuff that makes a good film/story. The idea I had ...
Read MoreOne of the best online courses. The 30-Day Challenge brought me back to the basics of screenwriting - the stuff that makes a good film/story. The idea I had a week before I participated in the challenge grew into a proper story by following Maxx's advice. Lost of inspiration. The dreamer/writer in me is up and running again! Great Work!
Read LessThe first day was great. I not only came to know about what exactly voice is but also showed up a way to discover it. It is more about me and why I want to w...
Read MoreThe first day was great. I not only came to know about what exactly voice is but also showed up a way to discover it. It is more about me and why I want to write.
Read LessThe 30-Day Screenwriting Challenge is a golden well of precious and useful resources for anyone aiming for the dream to come true on big or smaller screens. ...
Read MoreThe 30-Day Screenwriting Challenge is a golden well of precious and useful resources for anyone aiming for the dream to come true on big or smaller screens. Amazing offerings cannot exist without astonishing efforts, and selfless contribution to the community of screenwriters in particular. Last but not least is the macro and micro structure of the course that makes it accessible from any medium, any time, unfolding as essential micro-lectures. Congratulations and a million thanks to Max Timm and ISA!
Read LessIntroduction Video from Max Timm
Challenge Accepted! Let's Get Started...
Voice, and Voice Pressure Points
Audio Lecture on Voice and Voice Pressure Points
Assignment: Voice Pressure Points
The Logline - Yes, It's Extremely Important
Logline Breakdown Process
Audio for Logline Breakdown Process
Writing Group Discusion on Loglines and Pitches
Assignment: Write (and Rewrite) Your Loglines
See You on Day 2!
Office Hours Recording - Day1
Primary Story Elements
Your Hero and The Emotional Flaw
Audio: Your Hero & Emotional Flaw
The Secondary Helper (Supporting Character, Supporting the Hero’s Arc)
The Rival, Threat and/or Opponent
2nd Act Series of Obstacles
Sequence Writing and Prepping the 1st Act
Audio: Sequence Writing and Prepping The 1st Act
Assignments: Character Set-Up and Light Structure
Office Hours Recording - Day 2
Where To Begin?
The Villain, Rival, Opponent - How is this Character Related to the Secondary Character?
An Easy Assignment...Just Listen!
Episode 1 of The Craft - Sequence 1 Breakdown - "We Need A Hero"
Episode 2 of The Craft - Sequence 2 Breakdown - "Setting It All Up"
Episode 3 of The Craft - Sequence 3 Breakdown - "The Unsung Hero"
Episode 6 of The Craft - "A Sidenote for the TV Writer"
Structural/Beat Breakdown and Outline
Assignments: Sequence Statements
Office Hours Recording - Day 3
You've Barely Begun, But...
Loglines and Pitches Lecture - with Max and The Story Farm
A Great Way To Procrastinate from CreativeScreenwriting.com
Office Hours Recording - Day 4
The 2nd Act, Moment By Moment - with Assignments
Audio: The 2nd Act, Moment By Moment
The Difference Between "Adventure" & "Journey"
The Craft Podcast - Sequence 4 Breakdown. "The Promise of the Premise"
The Craft Podcast - Sequence 5 Breakdown. "Success, Failure & the Villain"
The Craft Podcast - Sequence 6 Breakdown - "The Mid-Point"
Assignment: Expanding Your Story Outline
Sequence Titles
FREE PREVIEWAssignments: Writing Your Script in Outline Form
Special Edition: Breaking Down Stranger Things
Stranger Things - The Pilot
Office Hours Recording - Day 5
Just Keep Going
Connecting with The ISA and Our Writing Gigs
Office Hours Recording - Day 6
$75.00
Breaking Your Story with Max Timm - Single Lecture
$79.00
Virtual Pitch Practice
$99.00
The Craft Course
$1,100.00
Custom Pitch Deck Design
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