EDITING / SCRIPT DOCTORING:
I've worked with Academy Award Winning producers, screenwriters and playwrights, short story writers and novelists to hone their creations into dynamic pieces. Whether an overview or in-depth, I delve into structure, character, dialogue, theme, plot, word flow...
"Working with Susan is bliss. She is a constant generous flow of constructive ideas, and there is never ego involved. Working with her is a fun and creative ping-pong game, where the script is always the winner." - writer/director Guillaume Tunzini
"Brava!" - script doctoring for Academy Award winning producer.
"WOW!!! Great! Thank you!" - director Sheyno
"What I liked the most about working with Susan were her insightful line-by-line edits. After having worked with her, my prose has significantly improved." - Connor Bohannan
CONTACT ME FOR RATES
TEACHING:
North Carolina Writers Network Spring 2018 Conference: Cinematic Storytelling Techniques for All Writers with Susan Emshwiller. Whether you write novels, short stories, memoirs, poems, or plays, the tools and tricks of screenwriting can enrich your storytelling dramatically. We'll see film clips, do prompt writing, and learn tips on effective exposition, dialogue, theme, the power of reactions, creating mystery by withholding information, show-don’t-tell, how to hide setups for surprising payoffs, writing with “shot-sizes” to invigorate your work, and more.
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY - Introduction to Screenwriting. 2017 - Spring 2022. Introduction to Film - two sections - 2021
OLLI at Duke - (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute). Screenwriting techniques and Visual Storytelling Writing Lab. Summer/ Fall 2016
ART CENTER in Carrboro. Screenwriting and Playwriting class. Winter/Spring/Summer 2016
MET THEATRE in Hollywood. 2005 - 2009. Ongoing class with exercises, prompts, staged readings, group critiques, etc.
WORKSHOPS:
SCREENWRITING, PLAYWRITING, CINEMATIC STORYTELLING FOR ALL WRITERS, LOW BUDGET FILMMAKING, and "IS THE HOLLYWOOD CARROT KEEPING YOU FROM YOUR DREAMS?"
I've worked with Academy Award Winning producers, screenwriters and playwrights, short story writers and novelists to hone their creations into dynamic pieces. Whether an overview or in-depth, I delve into structure, character, dialogue, theme, plot, word flow...
"Working with Susan is bliss. She is a constant generous flow of constructive ideas, and there is never ego involved. Working with her is a fun and creative ping-pong game, where the script is always the winner." - writer/director Guillaume Tunzini
"Brava!" - script doctoring for Academy Award winning producer.
"WOW!!! Great! Thank you!" - director Sheyno
"What I liked the most about working with Susan were her insightful line-by-line edits. After having worked with her, my prose has significantly improved." - Connor Bohannan
CONTACT ME FOR RATES
TEACHING:
North Carolina Writers Network Spring 2018 Conference: Cinematic Storytelling Techniques for All Writers with Susan Emshwiller. Whether you write novels, short stories, memoirs, poems, or plays, the tools and tricks of screenwriting can enrich your storytelling dramatically. We'll see film clips, do prompt writing, and learn tips on effective exposition, dialogue, theme, the power of reactions, creating mystery by withholding information, show-don’t-tell, how to hide setups for surprising payoffs, writing with “shot-sizes” to invigorate your work, and more.
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY - Introduction to Screenwriting. 2017 - Spring 2022. Introduction to Film - two sections - 2021
OLLI at Duke - (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute). Screenwriting techniques and Visual Storytelling Writing Lab. Summer/ Fall 2016
ART CENTER in Carrboro. Screenwriting and Playwriting class. Winter/Spring/Summer 2016
MET THEATRE in Hollywood. 2005 - 2009. Ongoing class with exercises, prompts, staged readings, group critiques, etc.
WORKSHOPS:
SCREENWRITING, PLAYWRITING, CINEMATIC STORYTELLING FOR ALL WRITERS, LOW BUDGET FILMMAKING, and "IS THE HOLLYWOOD CARROT KEEPING YOU FROM YOUR DREAMS?"
Teaching screenwriting workshop at DIVA center in Eugene, Oregon.
MEMBER OF: Writer's Guild of America, Alameda Writer's Group, IATSE local 44