Jeffrey Alan Schechter

The inaugural, first-ever, full-day “My Story Can Beat Up Your Story!” Screenwriting Seminar this past Sunday was a BLAST!  Twenty some odd people (some odder than others; JP, you know who you are) spent over 7 hours with me and lived to tell the tale! Thanks to my pals at the Writer’s Store who hosted […]

So I’m here in LA ahead of the “MY STORY CAN BEAT UP YOUR STORY!” seminar I’m doing at The Writer’s Store on the 30th.  Taking advantage of being in LA, I’ve had a bunch of meetings this week with producers, agents, managers, and executives. Knowing that a big topic of interest at the seminar […]

There are only three weeks to go until we kick some serious story tushie at the first ever, full-day, “MY STORY CAN BEAT UP YOUR STORY!” Screenwriting Seminar in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 30th, hosted by the seriously cool people at The Writers Store. I hate hype, I really do. That’s why it’s so […]

So, when I agreed to do the “My Story Can Beat Up Your Story!” Screenwriting Seminar at STARZ ANIMATION I was told to expect 20 or 30 people…tops. I got a call today from the fellow setting up the seminar.  We’re currently at sixty.  And it’s still two weeks away. This is gonna rock!   […]

The inaugural “MY STORY CAN BEAT UP YOUR STORY!” Screenwriting Seminar was a blast!   Twenty-five stalwarts showed up to downtown Toronto and we kicked some serious story tushie.   Not only did we go into greater detail on the concepts that were TotallyWrite and are now Mariner Software’s Contour story development software, but I […]