Jeff Lyons and Jenna Avery Discuss The Enneagram - Transcript October 6, 2013

#Scriptchat TOPIC: Story development and The Enneagram with guests Jeff Lyons and Jenna Avery.

Jeff Lyons @storygeeks and Jenna Avery @jennaavery discuss story development, story structure and characters using The Enneagram. Lots of links to further your learning within the transcript, so bookmark them for your next project or rewriting your current one. Enjoy! @jeannevb

You can also read the transcript on the Storify site.

Euro Scriptchat Welcomes back guest Jeff Lyons on Sunday 17th of February

Euro Scriptchat is pleased to welcome back Jeff Lyons, founder of Storygeeks, who will once again be chatting to us about Ideas Testing and what makes a story a story. Join us on Sunday the 17th of February at 8pm GMT (12:00 PST).

A solid premise is essential in writing effective agent or publisher query letters, or for pitching movie producers. But, how do you know your story idea will work? How do you know if you even have a story?

Jeff Lyons is a working screenwriter and author. He is a regular guest lecturer at Stanford University's online writing program and at the UCLA Extension Writers Program, as well as a webinar instructor for The Writers Store and Writer's Digest University.

He is also a regular contributor to Script Magazine, where he writes his popular column: “Story Talk,” and to Writer’s Digest Magazine, one of the oldest and most widely read writing magazines published in the U.S.

Jeff is the founder of Storygeeks, a professional services company offering story consulting, training and editorial services to screenwriters, novelists and nonfiction authors.

His film Billy Miske is currently in pre-production in the U.K. through M4West Pictures Ltd. More information can be found on his website, www.storygeeks.com.

Follow him on Twitter @storygeeks and “like” Storygeeks on Facebook at www.facebook.com/storygeeks.

In 2013, he will be publishing an e-book entitledAnatomy of a Premise Line: 7 Steps to Foolproof Premise and Story Development.

Jeff Lyons, founder of Storygeeks, joins Euro Scriptchat on 20th May

A solid premise is essential in writing effective agent or publisher query letters, or for pitching movie producers. But, how do you know your story idea will work? How do you know if you even have a story?  In this Scriptchat session, we’ll explore idea testing, what makes a story a story, and much more with Storygeeks founder Jeff Lyons. 

Jeff Lyons has more than 25 years’ experience in the entertainment and publishing industries. He is founder of Storygeeks, a professional services company offering editorial, professional training, and story consulting services to individual writers, production companies, literary agencies, and publishing companies. Jeff has been a regular book reviewer for Kirkus Reviews and Kirkus Discoveries, and is a regular guest lecturer at the UCLA Extension Writers Program, where he teaches story structure and story development technique. In 2012, Jeff will be publishing an e-book entitled Anatomy of a Premise Line: 7 Steps to Foolproof Premise and Story Development. And in 2013, he will be publishing two additional books: Story Development from the Inside Out: How to Use the Enneagram System to Unlock the Structure of any Story and How Not to Write Your Self-Published Book: The Missing Manual for Writers & Storytellers.

Come join us as we chat to Jeff Lyons on Sunday 20th May at 8pm BST