Events - 25th Anniversary Seminar

Saturday, September 25, 2010
Algonquin College, Ottawa, Ontario

Story Mastery with Michael Hauge

Join us for an all-day seminar featuring the best selling author and highly acclaimed script and story consultant, Michael Hauge

In collaboration with Algonquin College, Ottawa Romance Writers’ Association invites you to join us for an all-day seminar featuring best selling author and highly acclaimed script and story consultant, Michael Hauge. This seminar is a wonderful opportunity, whatever your experience or targeted audience, to improve your skills in the craft of storytelling and learn from one of the most respected experts in the field.

Hollywood script and story consultant Michael Hauge will present STORY MASTERY his unique approach to creating compelling fiction and to eliciting emotion in your readers. Using clips from recent blockbuster love stories and romantic comedies, along with hands on exercises, Michael will help you strengthen your story concepts, plot structure, love stories, character development and themes.

Topics covered will include:

• The primary goal of all stories
• The power of desire, need, longing and destiny
• The essential conflict all characters must face
• Turning plot structure from a complicated concept into a simple, powerful tool you can easily apply to every story
• The single key to creating character arc and theme
• Creating unique, believable and fulfilling love stories
• The unique rules of romantic comedy: fantasy, duality, deceit
• Adapting your novel to film

If you want to elevate your fiction writing to the highest possible level, this event is a must.

MICHAEL HAUGE is a story and script consultant, author and lecturer who works with writers and filmmakers on their screenplays, novels, movies and television projects. He has coached writers, producers, stars and directors on projects for Will Smith, Julia Roberts, Jennifer Lopez, Kirsten Dunst, Charlize Theron and Morgan Freeman, as well as for every major studio and network.

Michael also works extensively with Hollywood executives, producers, agents and managers, helping them sharpen their story and development skills, and improving their companies’ abilities to recognize powerful material, employ advanced principles of structure, character arc and theme, skilfully communicate a story’s strengths and weaknesses, and work effectively with writers to achieve a commercially successful screenplay.

Michael is the best-selling author of Selling Your Story in 60 Seconds: The Guaranteed Way to Get Your Screenplay or Novel Read and of Writing Screenplays That Sell, a definitive reference book for the film and television industries, which is now in its 32nd printing for HarperCollins. His seminar with Chris Vogler, The Hero's 2 Journeys, has become one of the top-selling DVDs and CDs on story and screenwriting.

To learn more about Michael Hauge, visit his website at www.screenplaymastery.com.