Screenwriting Tricks for Authors

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Write your best book or script with storytelling tricks from your favorite movies!

Alexandra Sokoloff
Dec 28, 2020
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I'm Alexandra Sokoloff.

I'm a million-selling, Thriller Award-winning author and screenwriter.

And I teach a workshop all over the world (and now online) that helps writers write better books and scripts - by learning from the movies.

It’s the New Year and one of my resolutions is to start writing articles on story structure again. I’ve been so embroiled in writing a new book, recording the online Screenwriting Tricks for Authors workshop, and, you know, life - that I haven’t had the luxury of just writing randomly about movies I’m watching and pointing out all the tricks that we authors can steal to write better books.

But it’s a perfect time to start up again.

And how about you? Are you ready to write a book in the New Year?

Come jump-start the book you've always wanted to write while we watch some great movies!

Alexandra Sokoloff is the million-selling, award-winning author/screenwriter of fourteen crime and supernatural thrillers. The NY Times calls her books "Some of the most original and freshly unnerving work in the genre." Her Thriller Award-nominated Huntress Moon series follows a haunted FBI agent on the hunt for a female serial killer, turning hated tropes of violence against women inside out. She is also the author/teacher of the internationally acclaimed Stealing Hollywood workbooks, workshops, and blog. She lives in Los Angeles and in Scotland.

Screenwriting Tricks for Authors

Alex is an internationally acclaimed story structure teacher and workshop leader. She has presented her Screenwriting Tricks for Authors workshop for conferences such as Left Coast Crime, Sisters in Crime, Thrillerfest, Romance Writers of America, Romance Writers of Australia, Bloody Scotland, the Scottish Association of Writers, PASIC, YARWA, and numerous small conferences and weekend retreats throughout the US and UK, and has taught film story structure at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.

Alex’s extensive background in theater, screenwriting and novel writing makes her uniquely qualified to teach story. Film structure is easily adaptable to novel writing and her emphasis on taking inspiration from favorite movies to unlock the secrets of story structure resonates with writers of all levels of experience.

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