HI Everyone! I'm incredibly excited to announce my upcoming course: 5-Part A.I. Lab: How to Break Story & Improve Characters Using AI.
Let’s address the elephant in the room immediately: We are not here to let AI do the writing. The temptation to let AI take the wheel is the fastest way to lose your creative integrity.
Instead, my philosophy is simple: "Tools, Not Terminators."
I even demonstrate in class how an inexperienced writer using AI will only get to a certain point creatively. However, someone who knows story, has their own experience, and brings a unique voice results in a much more powerful relationship with their AI assistant.
This is more than just learning prompts. It is learning how to use AI in a way most people miss. Many mistakenly work with AIs like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini in the same way they would a human, but that actually doesn't get the best out of the technology. In most cases, it is not looking for answers that makes AI so powerful. It is getting it to ask you profound questions that enhance your story.
I will go over that and so much more in this 5-week class. We are going to train these tools to handle the structural heavy lifting and logic checks so you can focus on the creative magic while the AI handles the analytical workload.
Over 5 weeks, we are going to get hands-on with YOUR script (yes, bring your current work-in-progress!). Here is the roadmap:
Week 1: The Health Check. We’ll diagnose your story’s weak points and learn to craft prompts that make AI a powerful assistant, not a ghostwriter.
Week 2: Structure & Architecture. We’ll use frameworks like Save the Cat and Hero’s Journey to stress-test your beats and find where the pacing drags so you can fix it.
Week 3: Scene Work & Voice. We’ll test dialogue rhythm and explore subtext without losing your authentic voice.
Week 4: Breaking the Rules. Time to get experimental! We’ll use AI to rapidly prototype bold choices like reordering beats or trying non-linear structures to see if we can discover something brilliant hiding in plain sight.
Week 5: The 1:1 Strategy. We wrap up with individual consultations to build a personalized roadmap for your writing process.
One note for anyone worried that the AI is going to "steal your work." Let's be real for a second. These tech companies are making hundreds of millions and billions of dollars on the software itself. They honestly don't care about your movie. Your script is safe! They also state in their terms and conditions that you own the output.
And a final reality check for anyone saying they will "avoid all AI." I have bad news for you: you are using it right now. If you are on the internet or using a smartphone, you are using AI. Regardless of your involvement, it is coming fast. Just like the typewriter was replaced by the personal computer, or when digital filmmaking exploded in the early 2000s, AI is another transformational technology that will shape our industry. History shows that those who use it early on, like all other technological evolutions in our industry, will be the ones who benefit the most.
Let’s start building better stories, faster.
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... Already done that Joshua, including feeding Chatgpt all points of "Your screenplay sucks," it took me 21 days, 10 hours a day, nonstop; then three extra months finetuning, still far from perfect, but so far, it won one festival, and got selected in an other. For me several routes lead to Rome; yes, after you YOUSELF, came up with yhe basic CONCEPT, use one very DETAILED promt for whatever possible 'story(line);' but for me an even more detailed endresult occurs if I 'split up my prompts' asking info about the same possible story(line), one by one, that focus on one subject. Yes, it creates the risk of chatgpt, at some point, not knowing what your story is all about anymore, and spewing fictional nonsence that was never really related to your basic story, especially if you feed it big chunks of text at once, but I like to gamble. Probably going to turn it into a graphic novel.
Never thought that I would say this but "Yes, people, if you're not insane in the membrane, like me, this is the lab to take!"