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World Leader in nonlinear and conventional scriptwriting in the new era of streaming
Linda Aronson is a world leader in nonlinear and conventional scriptwriting. She was the first to work out practical guidelines for planning and constructing nonlinear and flashback scripts, all based on thirty years practical experience as a busy writer with awards as a scriptwriter, novelist and playwright.
For decades, via consultancies, script doctoring and masterclasses, she has travelled the world sharing her expertise and providing robust, down to earth, practical solutions to scriptwriters from beginners through to writers at the top. Now, as new generation long-form TV series dominates the industry, she explains how to use nonlinearity and flashbacks to seize and hold these over-sated audiences. Additionally, in another revolutionary step into future storytelling, she has created a completely new dramatic form, a TV/VR hybrid in which the action jumps between several nonlinear storylines in 360° immersive VR installations or on multiple domestic monitors.
Her groundbreaking books, Screenwriting Updated and The 21st Century Screenplay are required reading in film schools all over the world. A new book Feeding the Binge: writing nonlinearity and flashback in TV series is in preparation.
Endorsements
Leading voices in film and television.
“At last you will understand Pulp Fiction! All the vague confusing things that teachers and studio executives say about flashback, turning points and multiple protagonists are whipped into coherent shape, in a comprehensive, precise and extremely practical theory.”
Christopher Vogler
Author of The Writers' Journey
“A brilliant book. Linda Aronson is one of the great and important voices on screenwriting.”
Dr Linda Seger
Dr Linda Seger Leading Script Structure expert. Author of Making a Good Script Great
“Tired of the Syd Field and Robert McKee dyad? Screenwriter Linda Aronson has a new nuts-and-bolts book that could leave the other gurus searching for day jobs. Five stars.”
Erick Opeka
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