Events
✴✴✴ Join Us Live March 16th ✴✴✴
4:30 PM PST / 6:30 PM CST / 7:30 PM EST
Emmy and Golden Globe award winning writer — Erik Bork
- The Idea -
Hollywood insider Erik Bork will share tips and tools from his craft book The Idea. He’ll be sharing the importance of the initial story idea, which he calls the most important part of the process. There are certain key elements in story or series premises that work, and which aid in your investment of time and energy. Erik will lay out those specific elements, and teach you how to master them. You can apply these tools to commercial fiction writing, screenwriting/playwriting, and other forms of story. In short, you’ll learn a Hollywood insider’s tips on finding your great idea, how to test your idea, and how to tweak the weak spots of your idea before you start writing.
Erik Bork is a screenwriter, producer, script consultant, and blogger. You may have visited his popular website, Flying Wrestler, which works alongside Blake Snyder’s Save the Cat.
Erik Bork won two Emmys and two Golden Globe Awards for his work on the HBO miniseries BAND OF BROTHERS and FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON, writing multiple episodes of each and working on the creative producing team—for executive producer Tom Hanks (and Steven Spielberg on BAND OF BROTHERS).
He has sold original pitches and written television pilots for NBC and Fox, worked on the writing staff of two primetime drama series, and written screenplays on assignment for Universal Pictures, HBO, TNT, and Playtone. He’s worked as a writer for such production companies as Imagine Entertainment, Original Film, director Doug Liman, Warren Littlefield, Jerry Bruckheimer Television, NBC Studios, ABC Studios, Warner Bros., Sony Pictures, and 20th Century Fox.
Erik also teaches for UCLA Extension’s Writers’ Program and National University’s MFA in Professional Screenwriting program. He has been called one of the “Top Ten Most Influential Screenwriting Bloggers” for his Flying Wrestler website, where many of the ideas in this book originated. Readers can find much more of his advice there, learn about his one-on-one coaching and consulting, and get his free “Ten Key Principles Successful Writers Understand” at FlyingWrestler.com/Key-Principles.