The DreamingOutLoud
Writers Technique
TheDreamingOutLoud
Writer's Technique
gets you writing the story your
soul has been dying to sing.
It's a way to start writing even
Writer's Technique
gets you writing the story your
soul has been dying to sing.
It's a way to start writing even
- when you're overwhelmed
- quitting on yourself
- clueless about where to start
- or worried that no one will care
about the story you want tell
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When you're writing with the DreamingOutLoud Technique,
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INSTEAD, the writing flows, its easy, organic and the story pours out of you. |
What is the
DreamingOutLoud
Writers Technique?
Each person was put here to learn four major life lessons. It's written in your spiritual DNA. It's either something you didn't get right in a past life or something your ancestors have been struggling with for centuries and you are finally equipped to put this lesson to rest.
These four major life lessons form the basis of your emotional type. Each emotional type has a set of recurring themes that come up for them. For example, Eugene O'Neil wrote about the nature of destructive solitude as an integral part of family life. All of his work dealt with this theme and he wrote about his family. The characters were complicated, layered and he understood every unspoken motivation, the deepest fears and the deepest wounds of each of his characters. And as the writer exploring the human condition, he built these characters with compassion and empathy. We watch them struggle with their fears in real time. The result is mesmerizing.
He took a set of emotions he knew intimately, that had been handed down to him through generations and exposed not only the source of the fear, but its effects and the problems that resulted from not solving these life lessons.
These are Recurring Emotional Chords. Each person has four major chords and the DreamingOutLoud Writers Technique is about discovering those chords and using them to create
1. Complicated, extraordinary characters who feel, breath and move through the world like fragile gods in search of purpose
and
2. Action packed, high stakes storytelling in a structure that is driven by the emotional imperatives of these characters and their need to finally learn these lessons.
I've written two plays and produced 5 films using this technique and coached dozens of first time writers from the beginning to a fully realized production. I am absolutely ecstatic for the opportunity to teach this technique and give you the powerful tools to ReWrite Your Story.
Let's. Do. This.
--Tony-winning producer,
actor, writer &
TheDreamUnLocked CEO,
April Yvette Thompson
These four major life lessons form the basis of your emotional type. Each emotional type has a set of recurring themes that come up for them. For example, Eugene O'Neil wrote about the nature of destructive solitude as an integral part of family life. All of his work dealt with this theme and he wrote about his family. The characters were complicated, layered and he understood every unspoken motivation, the deepest fears and the deepest wounds of each of his characters. And as the writer exploring the human condition, he built these characters with compassion and empathy. We watch them struggle with their fears in real time. The result is mesmerizing.
He took a set of emotions he knew intimately, that had been handed down to him through generations and exposed not only the source of the fear, but its effects and the problems that resulted from not solving these life lessons.
These are Recurring Emotional Chords. Each person has four major chords and the DreamingOutLoud Writers Technique is about discovering those chords and using them to create
1. Complicated, extraordinary characters who feel, breath and move through the world like fragile gods in search of purpose
and
2. Action packed, high stakes storytelling in a structure that is driven by the emotional imperatives of these characters and their need to finally learn these lessons.
I've written two plays and produced 5 films using this technique and coached dozens of first time writers from the beginning to a fully realized production. I am absolutely ecstatic for the opportunity to teach this technique and give you the powerful tools to ReWrite Your Story.
Let's. Do. This.
--Tony-winning producer,
actor, writer &
TheDreamUnLocked CEO,
April Yvette Thompson
How Does It Work?
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With guided exercises and assignments that will get you away from your desk and seeking adventures to write about, TheDreamingOutLoud WritersTechnique is a joyous celebration of everything you've learned and conquered in this lifetime. It's about learning to listen for the story your heart wants to tell and just recording what you're hearing. That's all writing is...it's simple because the story is already within you. We're just mining for that gold. April guides you every step of the way with live and recorded assignments. She will walk you through each exercise, answering questions, giving you feedback and space to do rewrites. Because the DreamUnLocked specializes in Boutique coaching, classes will always be small so there's lots of hands on attention. |
Juan Francisco Villa talks about how he went from highly trained underpaid theatre actor to a award-winning, actor/writer/producer triple threat using April's DreamingOutLoud Writer's Technique |
Who is the DreamingOutLoud Writers Technique for?
- First time writers (especially actors turned writers) who have an idea, but need a way into the story. Basically it's, folks who are storytellers in their heads, but have never figured out how to put that on paper.
- Writers who are stuck in their process with predictable characters, weak dialogue and low stakes storylines that no one cares about.
- Anyone who wants a way to jumpstart the writing process using the most powerful tool: YOU.
What will you learn?1. How to generate raw story from first person testimony & recorded interviews 2. How to download the raw content and begin to edit it into monologues and scenes 3. How to establish the Major Recurring Emotional Chords in the edited content and structure your storyline using April's Script Outline Template for Screenplays, solo plays, novels and well-made plays 4. How to use the DreamingOutLoud Interview Techniques to create complex characters and realistic dialogue 5. How to transfer the edited raw stories into the format that best serves the story that wants to be told |
First time writer, Cajardo Lindsay talks about using the DreamingoutLoud Technique to make his feature film debut as actor, writer and director. |
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DreamingOutLoud Writers Retreat
TheDreamUnLocked Client Testimonials
April Yvette Thompson
is a Tony-winning producer/writer/actor working across media. Film/TV credits include BULL, Blue Caprice, Gotham, Blue Bloods, Babylon Fields, The Exonerated (w/Susan Sarandon & Delroy Lindo), Accidental Husband, Backwards, Babylon Fields, Law & Order & Third Watch, etc. Broadway/Off Broadway credits include Clybourne Park, (Pulitzer & Tony); Vassar Voices (w/Meryl Streep), Good Bread Alley, Liberty City The Exonerated(w/Gabriel Byrne, Richard Dreyfuss), Medea, King Lear, Macbeth, etc
As SimonSays Entertainment Director of Development, April produced Sundance features: Blue Caprice (w/Isaiah Washington), Mother of George (w/Danai Gurira), Gun Hill Road (w/Esai Morales). April was on the Tony-winning producing teams for 2017 Tony for Best Revival for August Wilson's Jitney directed by Ruben Santiago Hudson and 2012 Tony for Best Revival, Porgy & Bess starring Audra MacDonald (Tony).
April wrote, produced & starred in her Miami Trilogy of plays: Good Bread Alley and Liberty City (Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Lortel noms & Jeff Award) at New York Theatre Workshop. Her latest play, Black Lives is in development at NYTW. April has taught at Rutgers University, Vassar College, Harlem School of the Arts, University of Zimbabwe, Maggie Flanigan Studio and various Universities throughout the United States as a Teaching Artist for The Acting Company. April has served as Artist in Residence at Manhattan Theatre Club, 651 Arts, NYTW and Director/Founder of the The Children’s Defense Fund’s Fundi Freedom Schools where she developed Arts in Education Curriculum for 1500 at-risk students.
EDUCATION: Vassar College, BA and Rutgers University, MFA AprilYvetteThompson.com
When does the course start and finish?
The first Master Class will be ready to view on April 15th. The recorded course never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course - you decide when you start and when you finish.
How long do I have access to the course?
How does lifetime access sound? After enrolling, you have unlimited access to this course for as long as you like - across any and all devices you own.
Refunds
What if I am unhappy with the online course?
We would never want you to be unhappy! If you are unsatisfied with your purchase, contact us in the first 7 days and we will give you a full refund.
Since the Writers Retreat involves and application process, there are no refunds. We take the time to review your application as part of commitment to your writing process. Once you've applied and been accepted, we hold that space for you so you'll finish your damn script...lol....