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Dear Friends and Fellow Screenwriters,
Since I put the Emotional Toolbox website up I’ve gotten tons of email from people who want The Character Map information in book form. I’ve been working hard to do just what you've asked. I’ve written a comprehensive eBook which includes everything on the website and much much more.
The Character Map book is 90+ pages packed with NEW character worksheets, NEW more detailed character development information and NEW film examples demonstrating the process so you can see it all in action.
WHAT’S NEW IN THE eBOOK?
I'm very excited about completing this book. There are lots of new features and information in The Character Map eBook that are not available on the website including:
NEW Character Map Worksheets– Use these handy worksheets to chart your character’s entire emotional journey. I've include prompts on the form to make the mapping process quick and easy.
NEW Fear Worksheets– This is BRAND NEW. Use these worksheets to chart how your character’s fear drives each of his or her major actions. This is one of the best problem-solving methods I’ve ever come up with. It immediately points out where your character is losing focus and how to make his or her actions more urgent and emotionally compelling. Any time you face a character or plotting problem this simple worksheet will lead you directly to the solution.
NEW Film Examples– Use these examples to see the Character Map in action. These film examples chart each step of the process. They explain the three possible outcomes to a character’s emotional journey and how to create each possible option. You’ll learn by example and see each of the steps necessary to create the emotionally satisfying ending your audience craves. Remember, audience satisfaction is key to turning a film or television program into a hit. No marketing campaign on earth is more powerful than enthusiastic word of mouth.
NEW Bonus Material– Use this extra added information to understand exactly how to chart all your characters and effectively use this simple but profound process. You’ll never wonder—what should my character do next? You'll never be stalled, stuck or stymied again! You will clearly see and understand your character's emotional journey from beginning to end. Everything is spelled out in detail in the clear easy to follow text. Use this material to reveal the heart and humanity of your characters in each and every moment in the script. Build authentic truthful characters from the inside out. Create characters and storylines that leap off the page.
HOW DOES THE CHARACTER MAP WORK?
Dierdre Alexander, Writer and Script Editor, London has this to say: "I did your workshop when I was in the middle of my first writing commission. I'd already written one episode but was able to apply your ideas when writing the second. When I saw the two episodes on the screen I couldn't believe the difference-- the second episode was full of wonderful chacter moments and had a real depth that was missing from the first... It also helped me to rework a script that later went on to win a writing competition. This was the first time I used your tools to map the three main characters and I found it invaluable for generating conflict, differentiating characters and giving each character an attitude and a POV. I had the characters in my head at the time of the workshop but found your advice brilliant for giving them focus. I feel like you've unlocked the world of character for me."
Dev Benegal, award-wining filmmaker in India has this to say: “Laurie Hutzler, professor of screenwriting at UCLA and a world-renowned screenplay consultant, was one of our advisors at the eQuinoxe tbc Screenwriting Workshop in Paris. All my fellow participants were raving about her sessions. Laurie wasn’t one of my assigned advisors and hearing what the others had to say I told her I was feeling ‘left out!’
I did get to meet her a few days later in London. We had a wonderful coffee and a relaxed chat in Soho, where we spoke about the ways of writing screenplays and the narrative traditions of Indian cinema. Just before we were leaving she asked me if I had time and would I like to do a small bit of her session in eQuinoxe. I jumped at it and what followed was amazing.
Laurie has a way of looking at your character by exploring the writer’s self. All I can say was it worked for me. My first question after we finished was if she was writing a book. I’m happy to let you know that she is. I’ve booked my advance copy! For me it was truly emotional!”
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HOW WILL THIS eBOOK HELP YOU?
The Character Map eBook helps screenwriters, directors, actors, producers, development executives, novelists, and game developers create the dynamic three-dimensional characters that audiences love.
The eBook helps you chart a storyline that packs a real emotional punch. It pinpoints the six key questions that motivate a character’s story actions. It identifies and creates the powerful internal tensions that define a character's personal goal and exactly how the character works to achieve that goal or eventually turns away from.
I believe that character should define story structure, not the other way around. This simple mapping process is a proven way to ensure that the structure of your story flows from the integrity and authenticity of your character. (Rather than forcing or adjusting your character to fit some cookie-cutter film genre or formulaic approach to film structure.)
A Character Map is the difference between creating flat cardboard characters that are pushed and pulled by plot and structure vs. complex fictional human beings whose actions and emotions actually build their own plotlines and create their own story structure.
HOW DOES THE eBOOK SOLVE PROBLEMS?
Has anyone ever told you your characters are too passive? Has anyone ever told you your characters are not dynamic or compelling? Has anyone ever told you your characters are not vivid or "real"? Has anyone ever told you your characters aren't interesting or memorable? Has anyone ever told you your characters are too "stock" or standard and not unique, fresh and original? Has anyone ever told you your characters are too similar or that one character is too easily confused with another? Has anyone ever told you your characters are contrived, a writer's device or exist just at the mercy or whim of the plot?
The Character Map eBook will help you create active, dynamic, original, memorable characters propelled by real emotional truth. The powerful problem-solving tools in the book will show you:
• The six questions that drive a character’s emotional journey
• The key traits a character must actively surrender to prevail in a story
• The four dynamic conflicts that motivate any character’s actions
• How a character breaks our hearts and falls to the dark side of tragedy
• The one critical trait the protagonist shares with the antagonist (this alone is worth the price of the book)
• The three character questions that build vivid memorable story structure
• How a character’s traits transform and empower a story
• How an antagonist tempts or pushes a character emotionally (this build plot and realistic conflict)
• The important emotional step the character must take to prevail in a story
• How to visually chart or map a character’s entire emotional journey
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WHAT DO WRITERS AND PRODUCERS HAVE TO SAY?
“Laurie Hutzler has a method of exploring and developing characters that I personally found very useful. Her gentle process of posing insightful questions should help any writer create deeper, richer and more vivid characters.” Paul Haggis, Oscar® Winning writer of Million Dollar Baby and Crash
“Laurie Hutzler has a terrific sense of story. She has a gift for inspiring and motivating writers to do their best work. Laurie’s approach will help any writer dig deeper and find the heart of their story. Heart is what great storytelling is all about.” Bobby Moresco, Oscar® Winning co-writer of Crash
"Laurie has taught me more than anyone about the central importance of character in any screenplay. Her method of character analysis provides an invaluable tool for the writer who needs a non-destructive way to self-critique his or her screenplay. At the heart of every Academy Award® Winning Best Film, is a screenplay that is the Best. Laurie's methods help writers create their Best." Peter Fudakowski, Producer of Tsosti, Oscar® Winning Best Foreign Language Film
“Laurie Hutzler's book crackles with the passion and innovative techniques that have been such a gift to her students at UCLA and around the world.” Hal Ackerman, Screenwriting Co-Chair UCLA School of Theater, Film, Television and Digital Media has this to say:
"By clearly demonstrating how to write a screenplay in a single hour a day, Laurie Hutzler has demolished the last great excuse not to write... Keep her book within easy reach and refer to it often, because it is an instruction manual for screenwriting success. I loved it. Great book. " Michael Colleary, Co-Producer and Co-Writer of Box-Office Hit Face/Off, Co-Writer of Laura Croft Tomb Raider, and Producer and Co-Writer of Firehouse
"Laurie's insights in character and story impacted me on a deep level, surpassing anything I had been previously taught and challenged me to go deeper in my search for the truth... My writing will never be the same." Benjamin Lobato, ABC/Disney New Talent Development Winner
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