Understand the importance of seeing your entire story take shape before writing and learn to develop an outline with a 12-step approach.

Do you outline your script before writing your pages? Even if you do, are you confident that your method of outlining is the most efficient and substantive? We all think we know how to develop our projects before diving into page writing, but how about expanding your horizons and tapping into a more thorough approach?

Join the ISA's Director of Education, Max Timm, as he hosts another free ISA webinar and discusses not only how to develop a thorough outline with a 12-step approach, but also the importance of seeing your entire story take shape long before writing a page.

Max Timm is the Director of Education with the International Screenwriters’ Association, Co-VP of Development for Creative Screenwriter Prods, and the President of The Story Farm Coaching service. With nearly 20 years of experience in the entertainment industry and in developing written material and writers’ careers, his focus with the ISA is to shepherd writers to industry professionals, offering exposure alongside career-long education. He has coached and consulted on material written by writers ranging from beginner to A-list actors creating their own vehicles.

His online class, The Craft Course in Screenwriting, offers writers an in-depth yet easy to understand approach to professional full development. In order to connect with as many aspiring writers as possible, he also helped create and launch multiple webinars, workshops, and the ISA's 30-Day Screenwriting Challenge. Aside from focusing on education, Max has joined forces with his ISA cohorts to launch a production and development company called Creative Screenwriter where they develop and produce low to mid-range budgeted films and TV series written by ISA’s top members.

Max is also a screenwriter and author. His debut novel, a young adult fantasy adventure, titledThe WishKeeper, about a teenage fairy with broken wings, won the YA category of the LosAngeles Book Festival, released nationwide and internationally, and is now being shopped as an animated series. Max has also served as a part-time instructor at UCLA, and travels nationally, speaking at various industry events such as the Sundance Film Festival, Nashville Writers Conference, HollyShorts Film Festival and the Napa Valley Film Festival.