Critical Tools to Create an Emotional Connection with Your Audience (2026)
Writing a script that the reader and ultimately audience feels an emotional connection to is what creates memorable and award-winning TV and films.
This carefully curated bundle of 12 digital products will give you the tools to engage with audiences, raise the emotional stakes of your plot, create memorable, relatable characters, set up emotional conflict, how to write from personal experience and pain, and much, much more.
If you want your writing to emotionally resonate for both you and the audience, this is the bundle for you!
Connect Your Characters With Your Audience or Your Script Dies (OnDemand Webinar) In this OnDemand webinar, Tim Schildberger teaches the difference between an authentic character versus a series of traits and how important it is for you to connect emotionally with the people in your story. Tim also discusses the destructive power of unintended character information, gives tips on discovering the authenticity of every character, and more. ($49.99 value)
Create An Emotional Connection Through Characters and Story (OnDemand Webinar) This OnDemand webinar will deconstruct the ways great screenwriters are able to emotionally connect an audience to their characters and their story lines. You will learn how to raise the emotional stakes of your plot and learn the practical tools to instantly get the audience to root for your protagonist and deepen the character relationships in your story. ($39.99 value)
How to Create Characters that Engage Your Audience (OnDemand Webinar) This OnDemand webinar teaches the specific tools and exercises these writers use to create fascinating, believable characters. The webinar also shares the writing processes professional writers use to develop their characters. Instructor Corey Mandell teaches the same tools and techniques he uses in his UCLA classes, private workshops and script coaching services. ($39.99 value)
Writing to Theme: Finding the Universal Heart and Soul of Your Story (OnDemand Webinar): Explore the most successful and often-used themes in classic and contemporary films, and apply effective approaches to tap into the thematic argument of your story and making sure it remains “invisible” throughout the story. With so many definitions and misunderstandings, this OnDemand webinar will demystify theme once and for all. ($39.99 value)
Develop an Original Core Wound for Your Protagonist (OnDemand Webinar): Everybody talks about character, but who really writes a great one? Most books on character offer dreary 'formulas' where you select character attributes, but this is arbitrary and dull - 'archetype' characters feel stale and cliched. So how do you do create great characters? Learn the single greatest secret scriptwriter Peter Russell discovered for creating the kind of great character that made stories like SNOWFALL, BILLIONS, and CALL ME BY YOUR NAME so successful. ($39.99 value)
How to Create Conflict to Drive an Original Story
(OnDemand Webinar): This OnDemand webinar will teach you as a storyteller how to identify ripe sources of conflict in your story; as well as how to elongate and stretch conflict in a way that tantalizes and holds an audience on the edge of their seats through the end of the program. The instructor, Kathy Berardi will provide exercises, examples and how-to techniques to easily help you get started on building a story based on conflict and realizing why conflict is essential to the dramatic art of storytelling as a whole (for both drama and comedic content). ($39.99 value)
Creating Compelling Emotional Conflict
(OnDemand Webinar): Many screenwriters focus on the rising conflict of the plot while foregoing the emotional stakes of their characters. Building the emotional conflicts of central characters is what moves an audience and creates films that are truly memorable and commercially successful. In this OnDemand webinar, you will learn practical tools to make an audience connect with your characters on a deep, primal level. ($39.99 value)
Is Manipulation Good in Screenwriting (OnDemand Webinar): This OnDemand webinar will provide answers. You’ll learn to get comfortable with the concept of manipulating your audience, and understand more fully why it is so important. This webinar will teach you how to construct scenes that maximize the emotional impact for your audience. How to create characters that resonate, and how to build an emotional layer into your story. ($49.99 value)
Writing Strong Crisis and Climax Scenes: The Two Keys to Screenplays That Connect with Audiences (and Hollywood) (OnDemand Webinar) Writers often confuse the crisis and climax scenes in their story. That confusion translates to the reader as a dramatic action pacing problem and inconsistent character growth. In this OnDemand Webinar, Martha Alderson shows you how writers can use emotion to generate energy at the crisis differently than what is needed at the climax. ($39.99 value)
Plot To Thrill: Creating a Story for an Audience That’s Already Seen Every Story (OnDemand Webinar) With 600 new series appearing every year, viewers have seen so many stories they can spot just about any plot twist coming. William Rabkin, the author of the best-selling Writing the Pilot books, has been creating and writing mysteries for 35 years; in this OnDemand webinar, he discusses how keep even the most jaded audiences in constant suspense. ($49.99 value)
The Power of the Transformational Arc: Making Stories More Emotional, Meaningful and Marketable (OnDemand Webinar) In this OnDemand webinar, author Dara Marks teaches writers how to create a natural story structure that reflects the authentic nature of the human experience. Her innovative method for structuring story is designed to keep writers focused on the heart and soul of their work, so that plot, character, and theme create a unified whole. ($39.99 value)
The Audience's Connection to a Screenplay: Engaging through Conflict (OnDemand Webinar) Screenwriting is a rigorous process, and for a story to work in this medium the audience must connect to the hero – you must make the audience care! Discover why so many scripts fail at the get go, how good characterization is based more on weakness and need than personality traits, and how both internal and external conflict is used to move the story forward and bring the hero to transformation. ($39.99 value)