Adventures in Adaptation: How to Transform Novels, True-Life Stories, and Just about Anything into a Great Screenplay September 26 - October 3
Fee: $125

From Gone with the Wind to Sideways, many great films are adaptations. Adaptation is the craft of writing a film from existing material, and virtually every story, from novels to newspaper columns, can be crafted into a screenplay for film or TV. This one-week course is an introduction to this very specific art of screenwriting.

You learn the basics of transforming factual and fictional material into a screenplay, including how to add material, cutting down a long novel, combining characters, opening up a story visually, and more.

Jacqueline Zambrano, writer/producer; WGA member who wrote the feature film In the Mix and has written scripts for numerous shows from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation to Star Trek.

Online course access is 24/7, from home, work, and abroad.