Description
If you’re like me, you probably just want to write. But I want to show you the benefits of diving deep into understanding the value of your work – and how to pitch it. With ideas at a premium, and attention spans low, it helps to learn how to condense your work into a visual and easily-understandable intellectual property that can be shown to agents, producers and publishers.
Whether you simply struggle to figure out how to finish a story, want to try selling a film or TV show, or sell an anthology or non-fiction concept to a publisher, this workshop’s for you.
Learn how to:
- Methodically develop an idea into its components and into a marketable IP
- Study loglines and taglines, synopses and character sheets
- Learn how to put together your idea – from a one-pager to a full treatment
- Effectively shop your work to producers, agents and publishers
- Conceptualize new work
This in-depth workshop explains key concepts in film development and structural approaches to writing, and is suitable for all levels.
Drawing on my own successful experience in media development, I guide you through this practical course giving you the tools you need to adapt your own work.
DATE: October 18, 2025
TIME: 1PM ET | 12PM CT |11AM MT 10AM PT | 17:00 UTC
RUNTIME: Approximately 90 minutes
About Your Instructor
Lavie Tidhar is author of numerous novels such as Osama, A Man Lies Dreaming, Central Station, Neom, and Maror. His awards include the World Fantasy and British Fantasy Awards, the John W. Campbell Award, the Neukom Prize and the Jerwood Prize, and he has been shortlisted for the Clarke Award and the Philip K. Dick Award. A prolific author of short stories, he has published more than two hundred, everywhere from Tor.com (where he created the popular Judge Dee series of vampire mysteries) to Analog, Asimov’s, Clarkesworld and Apex. As editor, he created the five-volume Apex Book of World SF series and edited the three volumes of The Best of World SF. Currently an honorary visiting professor and writer in residence at the American International University in London, he has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses on fantasy fiction and creative writing.
