Fundamentals of Screenwriting: Best Brainstorming Techniques

Best Brainstorming Techniques: Demolish Writer’s Block Forever

Generating ideas is the writer’s bread and butter — the fuel that makes our industry run. The better we are at brainstorming, the more we can heighten our own work, be an asset in the writers’ room, and become a creative force everyone wants to work with.

This workshop will level-up your brainstorming abilities with mind-expanding games and exercises. Never be at a loss for ideas again — now you’ll be a boon to storytellers everywhere, armed with these ideation superpowers!

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Timothy Michael Cooper is an award-winning filmmaker, comedy writer, and script consultant. He wrote and directed the Writers Guild Award-nominated Concierge: The Series, starring Kate McKinnon. His short comedy Lemon premiered at Tribeca, played at dozens of international festivals and on United Airlines, and is currently in development as a sitcom. Plus, he’s been part of the writers’ room for the Writers Guild Awards for the past six years, writing monologue jokes and sketches for numerous hosts/presenters.

Through his company, Blueprint Screenwriting Group, he’s taught hundreds of writers. His clients and students have sold their scripts to major studios; staffed on multiple network and cable TV shows; screened/won at SXSW, Sundance, Tribeca, Cannes, etc.; and got their movies and shows made across the globe.

Timothy is a proud member of the WGAE, the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective Writers’ Workshop, the Hollywood Radio & Television Society, and the WGAE Softball Team.

About The Fundamentals of Screenwriting Series

The Fundamentals of Screenwriting with Timothy Michael Cooper is a WGA East seminar series that aims to live up to its name – to teach the fundamentals for screenwriters that need a refresher or journalists and other screenwriting novices looking to learn for the first time.

Watch the previous installments of the Fundamentals of Screenwriting series here.