Every Subgenre of Horror
Become a virtuoso in brainstorming story ideas, dramatic situations, scenes, and other story elements in every flavor of the horror genre.
Family Conflict – Intermediate / Advanced
Elevate your writing to the level of "contemporary classic", telling powerful, heartfelt stories of families in crisis, generation gaps, sibling rivalry, and more!
Conflict: Power Struggle – Intermediate / Advanced
Intensify the dramatic impact of your stories with this special form of conflict that prompts deep insight into psychology of your characters.
Group Conflict – Intermediate / Advanced
Explore your subject matter in-depth and build up the drama to maximum intensity, adding group conflict to your stories.
Complex Surprise – Intermediate / Advanced
Enrich your plots, characters and narrative style and elevate your ability startle your audience with these advanced techniques for creating dramatic surprise.
Creative Lab
This is where we publish all kinds of unusual or experimental stuff: Avant-garde storytelling techniques, counterintuitive creative solutions, and more.
Simple Surprise – Intermediate / Advanced
Develop extreme creative flexibility in designing simple dramatic surprise, and advance your ability to craft staggering plot twists.
Dramatic Surprise – Foundation
Master simple, effective techniques for misdirecting your audience and making your plot twists impossible to guess.
Conflict – Foundation
Develop the essential skills for writing powerful, poignant, compelling conflict and infusing your stories with emotions, psychological depth and drama.
Copy the Masters: Anton Chekhov – “Ivanoff”
Study the storytelling techniques used by the great Russian playwright Anton Pavlovich Chekhov in his debut stage play "Ivanoff", written when he was 27.
Start Here
Get familiar with simple, effective, practice-based, common-sense principles of Superstar Screenwriters training methodology.
Comedy Patterns – Part One
Practice simple, effective techniques for writing comical scenes and triggering laughter in your audience.
Plot Twists – Foundation
Make your stories unpredictable and exhilarating by including sudden hairpin twists in their plots.
Story Structure – Foundation
Develop solid understanding of story structure, using the "protagonist transformation" story model as example.
Culmination Patterns – Intermediate / Advanced
Learn to brainstorm the culminating scenes for your stories and bring them to powerful, compelling conclusions.
Story Ideas – Intermediate / Advanced
Sharpen your story idea creation skills with this extended collection of cool concept-building techniques.
Story Ideas – Foundation
Develop and maintain a set of fundamental skills for coming up with compelling, intriguing, viable story ideas.