Craft Seminar: All Hope is Lost: The 10 Dramatic Scenes Every Writer Must Know with Sunil Yapa
Craft Seminar: All Hope is Lost: The 10 Dramatic Scenes Every Writer Must Know with Sunil Yapa
1 Session: Saturday, April 19
1:00-4:00pm ET
Sunil Yapa
Learn three-act structure with a best-selling novelist and UCLA-trained screenwriter Sunil Yapa. He is the author of the best-selling novel Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist, called “fast-paced and unflinching” by the New Yorker, a “genuine tour-de-force,” by the Seattle Times, and was a finalist for the Pen Faulkner Award. Sunil is an experienced teacher, having taught at The University of Nevada Lake Tahoe, The Center for Fiction, and with Pam Houston’s Writing by Writers. He holds a MFA in fiction from the CUNY Hunter MFA in NYC where he worked with Colum McCann and Peter Carey. He also holds a tv writing certificate from UCLA TV & FILM and has written extensively in fiction, non-fiction, and screenplays.
Using clips from Toy Story, The Godfather, The Great Gatsby, Star Wars, Breaking Bad, My Brilliant Friend, Palm Springs, and more, we will break down and highlight the ten crucial scenes in every successful drama. In this introductory one-day craft seminar we will learn the ups and downs of three act structure: from the inciting incident to the moment of despair, from the character’s ghost to their moment of revelation. You’ll leave with a deeper understand of how movies and shows work their magic under the surface—to use in your own work or just to wow your friends with your sparkling insights about this year’s Oscar winners.
Workshop Highlights:
Study with a best selling novelist and screenwriter
Learn the ten key scenes in every drama
Follow along as we break down clips of your favorite movies and shows
This class has 2 full scholarships available. To apply, please fill out this form by Friday, April 11.
Sunil Yapa is the author of Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist (Lee Boudreaux Books, 2016), a finalist for the 2017 PEN/Faulkner award, and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick. It was also named one of the best books of 2016 by Amazon, Time Magazine, The Washington Post, Bustle, and others.
Yapa’s fiction and non-fiction have appeared in American Short Fiction, Guernica, O Magazine, Poets & Writers, The Margins, Hyphen, Slice, LitHub and others. He is the recipient of the 2010 Asian American Short Story Award, sponsored by Hyphen Magazine and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York, and has received scholarships to The New York State Summer Writers’ Institute, The Norman Mailer Writers’ Center in Provincetown and The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
