Course description
Take full advantage of your writing in 2021. Email Max@TheStoryFarm.org to inquire.
What is The Story Farm?
Like a personal trainer for your writing
More than just a general consultancy, The Story Farm works much like a development executive or manager would with a writer as the writer is developing multiple projects.
If you wish to work long-term with Max Timm and The Story Farm, we offer weekly, one-on-one phone calls. You must contact Max@TheStoryFarm.org in order to arrange the service and payment.
You can purchase multiple evaluations that deliver specific notes on the ongoing development of multiple projects. This would be done via the call packages. If you would like an extensive, professional and educational approach that sets weekly deadlines and gets your screenwriting career thrust into high gear, select the 6-month or 12-month weekly coaching options.
The Story Farm is the most hands-on, comprehensive development service you will find in the industry. Approved by and in association with the International Screenwriters' Association, The Story Farm is designed to help dedicated, career-oriented writers with their craft and ongoing script development (TV or Features).
Contact max@thestoryfarm.org if you have questions
Want to know the specifics?
Brainstorming, feedback DURING your rewrite process
Thorough notes every week plus education on concept, structure, character evolution, and scene writing (long-term weekly packages)
A development consultant giving and holding you to weekly deadlines
Full Evaluation Call Packages Available
A champion for you and your projects
Plus a bunch more...
Recorded phone meetings
Brainstorming sessions
Marketing and Brand coaching/Entertainment Business Coaching
Pitch practicing
Adapting your novel into a screenplay (or vice versa)
Weekly online coursework to keep you on track
Of the writers currently enrolled in The Story Farm, over half of them have received options, representation, and/or won major contests in less than a year.
Please see below for pricing. To find out more and to schedule a consult to discuss your goals and how The Story Farm can work for you...
Email Max at max@thestoryfarm.org
The Story Farm Goal:
To get your material to a place that is ready for industry submission and launch your career (regardless of your experience)!
You can read reviews from fellow writers if you scroll to the bottom.
Pricing and Options:
For the long-term weekly solutions, you must inquire with max@thestoryfarm.org
Weekly Coaching & Professional Development (Our Core Focus)
The Anytime Call Packages
*full script evaluations OR brainstorming, outline review, logline creation, pitchbook/TV Bible development, and more on any of the calls regardless of the package. You do not need to use these calls on a weekly basis.
Packages
The 4-Pack: four calls to be used at any time within a 6-month period - $1100
The 8-Pack: eight calls to be used at any time within a 12-month period - $1800
The 12-Pack: 12 calls to be used at any time in a 12-month period - $2100
Please contact Max at max@thestoryfarm.org to review the best option for you, and find out if he's the right fit for your screenwriting career.
max@thestoryfarm.org
*Max Timm and The Story Farm does not and can not guarantee that we will get your script into the hands of producers, managers, agents, or studio executives, nor does The Story Farm claim official connection to any studio. The Story Farm will, however, promise to help you develop the very best script possible and, if/when deemed ready, will reach out to industry professionals on your behalf.
The Director of Education with International Screenwriters’ Association, President of The Story Farm, and VP of Development for Creative Screenwriter Productions, Max has 15 years of experience in developing material and writers’ careers. His focus with the ISA is to build a creative community and bring ISA writers closer to Industry Professionals. Having attended Holy Cross College at Notre Dame and then transferring to Columbia College Chicago to study screenwriting and producing, Max is a Midwesterner and Chicagoan at heart who prides himself on supporting creative people in as many ways possible. Recently he helped build a development slate with ISA, submitting writers’ projects on their behalf and helping them launch their careers – 21 writers have received options and representation to date because of Max’s assistance and support. His Story Farm consulting service develops working writers and their material much like a studio executive or manager would, and his online classes, titled The Craft Course in Screenwriting, offer writers outside the Los Angeles area to take part in professional full development.
A development consultant, manager, and screenwriting instructor, Max is a screenwriter and author himself. His debut novel, a young adult fantasy adventure titled The WishKeeper, about a teenage fairy with broken wings, won the young adult category of the 2015 Los Angeles Book Festival and released worldwide in the Summer of 2016. Max has also served as a part-time instructor at UCLA, and travels nationally and internationally speaking at a multitude of industry events such as the Sundance Film Festival, Nashville Writers Conference, and even educating art program teachers through the LA Unified School District.
You can find out more about Max's Story Farm Development Coaching Service here.