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Film Courage: Are writing groups a good idea?
Jill Chamberlain, Script Consultant/Author/Writer: Writing groups are a great idea if you find the right people that’s sort of the trick there you need community as a writer. We tend to be introverts. We want to be left alone and do our thing but it’s lonely and you get stuck in your own head. You need people you trust and that’s the important thing. You don’t want a toxic writing group. You don’t want a group that’s competitive in a bad way. I mean all groups are going to have a little bit of competitiveness.
In my screenwriting school I strongly encourage people to start forming friendships in writing groups in the program. I would love for them to come back and take my classes again but even if they don’t I want them to keep writing. I find the best way you’re going to do that is if you have a writing group. Even better if you find writers from something like a class or where you speak the same language.
One of the real important things is the ability to critique. A lot of people don’t know how to critique well. I think a good writing group can be geared towards that so that you’re critiquing in a way that isn’t just…I can’t stand actually when I see someone doing critique a different way than the method that I use, which I call the two-way mirror.
The idea is the writer doesn’t get to talk. The writer has to listen. They don’t get to talk. Everyone else is going to talk about the positives first and then they’ll talk about the negatives. What do they like? What do they…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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Jill Chamberlain is the founder of a screenwriting school, a script consultant, a screenwriter, and the author of The Nutshell Technique: Crack the Secret to Successful Screenwriting.
The Nutshell Technique is considered the go-to manual many professionals swear by. It’s on the syllabus at film schools all over the world and has been published in Mandarin Chinese, Korean, and Italian, and in audiobook format.
As a script consultant, Jill has fixed and fine tuned scripts for Oscar-nominated screenwriters, top television showrunners, screenwriters whose movies have made over a billion dollars at the box office, award-winning independent filmmakers, and for many, many spec script writers.
In 2006, Jill founded The Screenplay Workshop with Jill Chamberlain (Screenplayworkshop.org) where she has personally taught thousands of screenwriters feature film and episodic television writing. Complete beginners to Emmy-winning screenwriters and award-winning producers enroll in her classes.
Find out more about her and her script consultancy at jillchamberlain.com.
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