August 2025 Courses and Live Events at Our University's Website
In August 2025, Writer's Digest University is offering a variety of writing courses to help aspiring writers hone their skills. Here are some of the courses available:
1. The Nitty Gritty of Spec: Writing Strong Action and Dialogue
This one-week intensive course, led by Dave Trottier, focuses on writing compelling action and dialogue for screenplays. Participants will have the opportunity to have five pages of their spec script evaluated by Trottier, a produced screenwriter, script consultant, award-winning teacher, and author of "The Screenwriter's Bible." The course runs from August 28 to September 4, 2025.
2. Prepping Your Screenplays to Win Competitions Intensive
Rebecca Norris Resnick leads this one-week intensive course, which aims to help writers prepare their screenplays for competitions. The course runs from August 21 to August 28, 2025.
3. Writing the Series Bible: Developing Your TV Series
Lynn Grant Beck's course helps writers get a TV series ready for an executive by developing the series premise, honing the pilot, and writing the series bible. The course runs from August 28, 2025, to September 25, 2025.
4. 21 Days to Your Screenplay Treatment
Bryan Young leads this course, which teaches participants how to create a screenplay treatment and log line. The course runs from August 7 to August 28, 2025.
Guided Courses in Late August
Writer's Digest University is also offering several guided courses in late August, particularly from August 22 to 24, 2025. These courses include:
- 12 Weeks to a First Draft, instructed by Mark Spencer, Terri Valentine, G. Miki Hayden, and John DeChancie. This course covers all steps required to complete a first draft of a book.
- 21 Days to Your Novel Outline and Synopsis by Bryan Young, focusing on crafting a premise, outlining a novel, and producing a synopsis.
- 21 Days to Your Screenplay Treatment, also by Bryan Young, teaching how to create a screenplay treatment and log line.
- Advanced Novel Writing with Mark Spencer and Terri Valentine, aimed at novelists seeking detailed feedback and dedicated time to work on their novels without weekly reading assignments or lectures.
Other Events
In addition to these courses, Writer's Digest University is also offering a live webinar titled "Developing Healthy Writing Habits" with script doctor Cody Smart on August 7, 2025. The webinar lasts for 3 hours and includes access to the archived version of the program and the materials for one year.
A 12-week course titled "Beginning Feature Film Writing: Complete Course" will be available on August 14, led by Donald H. Hewitt. On an unspecified date, a course titled "Write Your Drama Pilot in Six Weeks" will be available, led by William Rabkin.
Writer's Digest University's joint venture aims to provide comprehensive writing resources, including expert-taught courses, monthly webinars, and on-demand content. For exact scheduling and enrollment details, checking directly with Writer's Digest University’s course platform would be recommended.
[1] Specific start dates and course lengths beyond these details are not provided in the available information. For exact scheduling and enrollment details, checking directly with Writer's Digest University’s course platform would be recommended.
[4] Other writing events and conferences in August 2025 are noted from different organizations but are separate from Writer’s Digest University offerings.
- The Nitty Gritty of Spec: Writing Strong Action and Dialogue, a one-week intensive course led by Dave Trottier, focuses on writing compelling action and dialogue for screenplays.
- In August 2025, Writer's Digest University offers an online course titled 12 Weeks to a First Draft, which covers all steps required to complete a first draft of a book.
- Writer's Digest University's guided courses in late August include 21 Days to Your Novel Outline and Synopsis, a course by Bryan Young that teaches participants how to craft a novel's premise and produce a synopsis.
- Rebecca Norris Resnick leads a one-week intensive course, Prepping Your Screenplays to Win Competitions Intensive, aiming to help writers prepare their screenplays for competitions.
- Lynn Grant Beck's course, Writing the Series Bible: Developing Your TV Series, helps writers get a TV series ready for an executive by developing the series premise, honing the pilot, and writing the series bible.
- A live webinar titled Developing Healthy Writing Habits with script doctor Cody Smart is available on August 7, 2025, as part of Writer's Digest University's offerings.
- In August 2025, Writer's Digest University's joint venture provides online education and self-development resources, including learning how to write strong screenplay dialogue or developing a TV series structure through courses like The Nitty Gritty of Spec or Writing the Series Bible.
