STORY AND PLOT

Video transcript: Hi, my name is Jona. I'm a children's book writer from Sweden who found Tom online and I just wanted to share a testimonial to say how very helpful I found our one to one session. It was really interesting for me talking to a professional about not someone who really knows story structure. And I believe he saved me a lot of time working on my story by offering a pair of fresh eyes, fresh professional eyes. And yeah, it was just lots of fun and extremely helpful. So I very much recommend Tom's help and services. Thank you.

Video transcript: Good afternoon or whatever. I'm Madeline and I have been a student of Tom Vaughn's story andplot pro storyandplot.com classes for maybe six months. And I am incredibly impressed with his person, personality and his kindness and his attention to each and every one of his satisfied students. We are a community and we are learning structure and plot and we are learning university level classes from a professional screenwriter who's had a number of films done. And he is at every single class and every single morning we have writing sprints. And Tom is there like 90% of the time unless he has an appointment with his agent or unless he has to take his dog to the vet or unless he has to teach a class at the University of Houston where he has been a member of the faculty for many, many years. His expertise and his kindness and his efforts to help each and every one of us individually are unbelievable. Believe me, I paid a lot of money to phony teachers and I am really lucky to have found Tom and his classes and his brilliant students, some of them even as old as I. We are a community. We work with each other and we work with Tom on a daily basis to improve our writing, to learn how to structure a screenplay or a TV pilot, which will possibly get. Get some attention. So I cannot recommend his classes highly enough. I taught college level English and occasionally creative writing for 31 years and I know good teaching and I know sincere dedication to the art and the craft of teaching. And I'm impressed with Tom's ability to come up with new ideas, imagine new classes, respond to us all in terms of what we particularly need. We do 10 pages every. Every Saturday in the Saturday Mastermind. I would highly recommend storyandplot.com for the mastermind classes and I would highly recommend Story and Plot Pro.

Video transcript: Okay, so I want to share my experience with Story and Plot Pro. My writing background is mostly in sketch comedy and writing and directing short films, but features have always been the thing that I've been most interested in. And so over the years, I have taken so many different screenwriting courses and read so many different screenwriting books, but I still reached this kind of stagnant place where I just didn't feel like I was getting any better. And. And a lot of the work that I was doing was just getting stashed in a drawer somewhere. And so one day I came across the story and plot substack, and the way that Tom was explaining things really clicked for me. So I signed up for a couple of his courses. Mastering Structure Idea to Outline. Those were great. And so I decided to take the leap and join Story and Plot Pro. And I just finished my first series of eight workshops. And I found it to be just so valuable when it comes to getting better as a writer. There were a lot of things that I thought I knew but wasn't doing quite as well as I could or things that I was doing that weren't working, and I couldn't quite figure out why. And Tom has the experience and the skill to just kind of see through that stuff and cut to the chase. And he has pushed me in a way that honestly, sometimes has felt pretty challenging, but that I've really appreciated because you don't grow if you don't leave your comfort zone. And so between his guidance and the accountability of the community itself, where I've met a number of people that I've clicked with who share similar goals and similar sensibilities, ultimately, I feel like I've made just so much progress as a writer, even just in these first few months. And so if you are feeling stuck and you want to take your writing to the next level, I would highly, highly recommend Tom and Story and Plot Pro.

Video transcript: Hi, my name is John. I've taken all of Tom's other courses and recently just completed his I did Outline course and I just want to say I have spent years reading, researching and taking other classes free and paid what is offered in Idita Outline can't even get all into detail, but the importance of making decisions up front, knowing the intention of your scenes and just putting it all together, the PDFs he gives, the examples that he gives, his knowledge. It's you can't beat it. I highly recommend it and I will forever be indebted to the things that I've learned. If you're looking for something to really get you going that will stay with you and stuff that you can absolutely use, I highly recommend. Thanks. Tomorrow.

Video transcript: Hey there, My name is Caleb and I took the asynchronous course Perfecting the Logline with Tom Vaughn. Perfecting the Logline was the perfect introductory course to his strategies and his methods. Even as an experienced writer, it's always good to revisit the basics from time to time, and for me, this course was just full of practical experience and useful examples both from Tom's own work and and from produced films that you can readily find on the market. Tom does a great job of breaking down not only how loglines work, but the components of every part of the logline, and more importantly, he uses loglines not only as a marketing tool, but as a development tool even before he starts the writing process. The course was succinct, it was easy to follow along, and I was able to fit it in between my busy schedule just by doing a few minutes a day or even just a lesson a week. I thoroughly enjoyed this course and I look forward to taking another course with screenwriting instructor Tom Vaughn.

Video transcript: Hello, my name is Michael Starks, and I've been taking Mastering Structure, a course by Tom Vaughn. I have to say I've really been enjoying this course. I love the way that Tom goes through the material and I really like the way that he suggests that you structure a screenplay. I think it's very useful to think instead of in three acts, in four acts, where you say the first act is what a first act typically is, the beginning. And then Act 2, which is typically the longest act, gets broken up into 2A and 2B. And then Act 3 comes after that. By diving into each of those parts of the screenplay and really focusing on what happens in each one, he even splits those in half. You have a manageable bit of a script to work with at a time. Like you can think of the entire idea, figure out what the high points are, what is the dramatic question, the inciting incident, the crisis, all of these things that are important, you know where they belong. And then when it comes time to actually writing, you can just fill out all the pieces of that, make a specific sequence work, and therefore that act work until you can get the entire screenplay written. And I've used this approach with the screenplay that I'm currently working on. I've already got an initial draft. It started out as a very short movie and now it's full length. And it's because of Tom's course that I was able to get an initial draft of a full length movie, which I had never done previously. So very excited about that, and I'll continue to revise it, update it, coming back to these ideas of structure to make sure that it works so that I actually end up with a project I'm very proud of and look forward to producing. Thank you, Tom.

Video transcript: I just finished Tom's class right this minute, and I'm feeling very good and inspired to leave a little testimonial. Before I started Tom's class, I've written some screenplays that have never quite gone where I've wanted them to go. I've worked in documentary films and I've created many documentaries. So I had, like, this understanding of structure, but I didn't have it all in one place and I didn't have it as simple as I do now after taking Tom's class, I have a simpler understanding of just how films work and what structure is needed, what needs to come before what makes a film more interesting. But I think more than any of that, what I have is a lot of inspiration. I have a sense of like, oh, this is so doable and fun again. And I'm really looking forward to getting into the nitty gritty of the ideas that I have and just mapping out and figuring it all out in this structure. And it feels less daunting now. It feels like something that I can wrap my head around. And when I go back to write an outline and work on these things, I will be referencing all of the things that come with the course in terms of PDFs and insights beyond the videos. There's also just a lot of really helpful information and I'm very grateful for it and I'm excited for the next steps and I'm excited for the next to come, and I did not feel that way until finishing the class. So thank you very much and I recommend it.

Video transcript: Hey, everybody. I'm Jana Vandelaar and I just finished perfecting the logline with Tom Vaughn. And I mean, again, every one of his courses are great, but I honestly think this is one of the most important courses that you could ever take in your career if you're going for this biz. I've written four scripts right now so far, and I'm working on my fifth. Um, my last one that I wrote was a pilot, and I accidentally fill into all these points that Tom mentioned in this. In this class. I hadn't taken the class. I. The other three are just sitting there. I can see people looking at my log lines on some of the. The sites that you can post stuff that you can see that they're looking at it, but they're not picking them up. And they're great stories. So I'm kind of catching on to all of it. But this fourth one that I wrote, I think I just accidentally fell into these points. But now as I was going through the course, I'm like, yes, I get it now. That's why this one is being looked at. At any rate, I just highly, highly recommend it. It finally put it in the terms. I've taken courses before on how to do log lines, but it's like these very generic. When then until I. I'm like, what does that mean? I don't even get what it means. I don't know. And so this is very clear. And it just hit all the points. Everything was so well done. And I highly recommend it again, a hundred percent the best logline course I've ever taken. All of your courses are great, Tom. Thank you beyond words for being you and for doing this. So take this course, though. This will get you past to have them even look at your script, which is the important thing. You can write this incredible thing, but the log line can just have it be on the shelf forever. So, um, again, or take do the log line before you even write it. I love that recommendation. Somewhere in this. This course. So, anyway, really great job. Thanks, Tom. Take the course, you guys.