Writers Tribe Review

Through lecture, discussion and stream-of-consciousness writing exercises, Unlock The Story Within provides writers at all levels with the tools necessary to successfully bring their work to fruition.

• The morning session involves a lecture followed by eight specially designed stream-of-consciousness writing exercises and one-on-one work with Alan Watt to illustrate the process of connecting to the underlying forces within your story.

• Armed with this connection, the afternoon session involves a three-hour story structure workshop that will show you how to connect your plot to your theme.

NOTE: This is an excellent preparatory workshop for the 90-Day Novel or 90-Day Screenplay workshops.

In this workshop you will:

• Discover what your story is really about
• Turn your fears into allies
• Understand how and why you are uniquely qualified to write your story
• Identify the dramatic question of your story
• Discover the universal dilemma at the heart of your story (this is the ‘source’ of the story from which all conflict and complications arise).
• Isolate the specific want and need of your protagonist
• Explore your hero’s transformation in the third act
• Clarify the through-line of the story by tracking the ‘want’ through the plot points
• Explore the back-story that informs your dramatic question
• Allow your characters to begin to speak to you.