Course Description

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30 Days to finish your screenplay! Think you can do it? We do. And we've set up steps, assignments, and objectives to help you do so.

Join your fellow writers and take the 30-Day Challenge. Our industry is evolving and the competition is steep. It's time that you learn how to develop a script as quickly as possible, but also how to make that script worthy of submission.

With the ISA's 30-Day Screenwriting Challenge Unlimited, you'll have the tools to not only finish a script in 30 days, but to receive the most comprehensive education on the screenwriting and entertainment business. You will have lifetime access to the content and thus be able to utilize the lessons and assignments for as many personal 30-Day Challenges as you like.

Get Ready to Write!


Let's make this simple. 
We need to be writing every day. Writers need to know how to utilize their time, and how to get the most out of their writing sessions. Most of us have day jobs, parenting responsibilities, or extra-curricular promises that tend to chip away at the available hours of every day, much less the so-called creative energy it takes to sit our butts down and crank out our next story. Like any other creative or business venture, you need a plan AND a finite goal even before you sit down to do the work. With the 30-Day Screenwriting Challenge Unlimited, we have not only set up such a plan and goal, but we've given you a structured framework within which you will be able to approach the completion of a screenplay (feature or TV) in 30 days or less. In this 30-Day Challenge, we are giving you a series of written lectures, audio recordings, assignments, and daily inspiration that will get you organized, prepared, and working. It's all here for you, but now it's up to you to get the work done.


Are you up to the challenge? We think you are.
The instructions, assignments, written lectures and audio recordings have been created and designed by the ISA's Max Timm and his Story Farm Development and Coaching Service.


Let the Challenge Begin!

If you're looking for more long-term support from Max and the ISA, you can inquire about Max's year-long Personal Coaching and Development Service called The Story Farm - designed to get your material not only industry-ready, but submitted to the ISA's industry contacts. Space is very limited, and per application only, but it is the most comprehensive, support and feedback-oriented one-on-one consulting service you will find, anywhere, period.


The ISA Development Slate

Your material could also be evaluated by the ISA per their Development Program. Check out the Development Program Evaluation here on www.TheCraftCourse.com.



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Lead Mentor and Instructor Max Timm

Max Timm is the Director of Education with International Screenwriters’ Association, and the President of The Story Farm Development and Coaching service, with 17 years of experience in developing written material and writers’ careers. His focus with the ISA is to shepherd writers to industry professionals, offering exposure alongside career-long education. His personal coaching, consulting, and development service, The Story Farm, develops writers and their material much like a studio executive or literary manager would, walking a writer through the development process one draft at a time. His online class, The Craft Course in Screenwriting, offers writers an in-depth yet easy to understand approach to professional full development. In order to connect with as many aspiring writers as possible, he also helped create and launch the ISA’s popular podcast network - an interview-focused podcast, as well as his solo podcast, The Craft. Aside from focusing on education, Max has joined forces with his ISA cohorts to launch a production and development shingle called Creative Screenwriter where they develop and produce low to mid-range budgeted films written by ISA’s top members. Max is also a screenwriter and author. His debut novel, a young adult fantasy adventure titled The WishKeeper, about a teenage fairy with broken wings, won the YA category of the 2015 Los Angeles Book Festival and released nationwide in the Summer of 2016. Max has also served as a part-time instructor at UCLA, and travels nationally speaking at various industry events such as the Sundance Film Festival, Nashville Writers Conference, and the Napa Valley Film Festival. Most recently Max released his debut book on screenwriting titled, "(Not Just) Another Book on The Craft of Screenwriting."

Course curriculum

    1. Challenge Introduction - Getting Started

    2. Voice, and Voice Pressure Points

    3. Audio: Voice - Finding It, Evolving It, Embracing It

    4. Assignment: Voice Pressure Points

    5. The Logline - Yes, It's Extremely Important

    6. Logline Breakdown Process

    7. Audio: Logline Breakdown Process

    8. Assignment: Write (and Rewrite) Your Loglines

    9. See You Tomorrow!

    10. Who is Max Timm?

    1. Your Logline As A Loaded Gun

    2. Your Hero and The Emotional Flaw

    3. Audio: Your Hero & Emotional Flaw

    4. The Secondary Helper (Supporting Character, Supporting the Hero’s Arc)

    5. The Rival, Threat and/or Opponent

    6. 2nd Act Series of Obstacles

    7. Sequence Writing and Prepping the 1st Act

    8. Audio: Sequence Writing and Prepping The 1st Act

    9. Assignments: 1st Act, and Character Set-Up

    10. Update - Q & A!

    1. Where To Begin

    2. The Villain, Rival, Opponent - Whatever He's Called! How is this Character Related to the Secondary Character?

    3. An Easy Assignment...Just Listen!

    4. Episode 1 of The Craft - Sequence 1 Breakdown - "We Need A Hero"

    5. Episode 2 of The Craft - Sequence 2 Breakdown - "Setting It All Up"

    6. Episode 3 of The Craft - Sequence 3 Breakdown - "The Unsung Hero"

    7. Episode 6 of The Craft - "A Sidenote for the TV Writer"

    8. Structural/Beat Breakdown and Outline

    9. Assignments: Sequence Loglines

    1. You've Barely Begun, But...

    2. Max Timm's Writer Success Stories and How You Can Be A Success Too

    1. The 2nd Act, Moment By Moment

    2. Audio: The 2nd Act, Moment By Moment

    3. The Difference Between "Adventure" & "Journey"

    4. The Craft Podcast - Sequence 4 Breakdown. "The Promise of the Premise"

    5. The Craft Podcast - Sequence 5 Breakdown. "Success, Failure & the Villain"

    6. The Craft Podcast - Sequence 6 Breakdown - "The Mid-Point"

    7. Moment Listing - Your Story Outline

    8. Sequence Titles

    9. Assignments: Writing Your Script in Outline Form

    10. Special Edition: Breaking Down Stranger Things

    11. Stranger Things - The Pilot

    1. Just Keep Going

    2. Connecting with The ISA and Our Writing Gigs

About this course

  • $99.00
  • 129 lessons
  • 0 hours of video content

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Mike Rogers

Maxx's 30 Day Course is something I have returned to three times since I downloaded the course less than a year ago. The advise is sound and will never go ou...

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Maxx's 30 Day Course is something I have returned to three times since I downloaded the course less than a year ago. The advise is sound and will never go out of date. Great for resetting your foundation. Recommended

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