I turned my workflow into a book. It's free from 11-15th August. I would love your thoughts
Hi everyone
I’m a working screenwriter from Iceland, with four produced features, and I’m currently working in four different TV series rooms. I also spent years running a film school and now teach screenwriting workshops internationally alongside my writing work.
Over the years, one of my most popular lectures was about the workflow I use to write — a practical method I call a screenplay manual.
It’s basically a hybrid between an outline and a treatment. Instead of sitting down with a blank screenplay and trying to invent everything on the page, I build the story through a series of manageable documents until I have a manual that tells me what I’m actually writing.
For me, it’s largely about avoiding that freeze that can happen when the job feels too big, which I thought would go away with experience, but spoilers: it didn't. So I created a process that lets me consistently deliver when I’m writing professionally.
I’ve turned that lecture and workflow into a short book called Create Your Own Screenplay Manual.
Now, will it work for everyone? Probably not. But it does work for me, and I know several successful graduates it works for as well.
To celebrate the launch, I’m making the Kindle edition completely free on Amazon from August 11–15.
Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HDCRJNQ5
If you want to do me an extra solid, you can also search Amazon for the title "Create Your Own Screenplay Manual" and find it that way instead of clicking on the link.
That tells the almighty Amazon algorithm that people are interested in the book.
And if you pick it up, read it, and don’t hate it, I’d appreciate an honest amazon review. For a new book, those genuinely make a difference.
No obligation on either front. The book is free this week, and I hope some of you find the method useful.
I am also giving away a screenplay read / feedback, which you can find about on my bio.
Happy to answer any questions about the method, the book, professional screenwriting, teaching, or screenwriting in Scandinavia/Europe versus the American system.