How to Write Like Taylor Sheridan Boot Camp
Taylor Sheridan has redefined modern storytelling. This workshop breaks down his techniques into practical, learnable skills and adapt them to any genre!
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Master the Storytelling Craft: Techniques from Taylor Sheridan's Work.
Sheridan is a master at implementing fundamental storytelling principles. He uses these techniques across all his works and maintains their use even as he crosses genres. He also applies classic techniques to contemporary settings, which makes traditional storytelling principles feel fresh and shows how timeless methods work in current modern storytelling. In his 'Systematic Approach,' he effectively combines multiple techniques to build sustainable story engines, thus creating repeatable success patterns.
The key insight is how Sheridan's 15 techniques support and amplify each other, creating a rich, multi-layered storytelling approach that can be adapted to any genre or setting.
These 15 storytelling techniques really highlight Sheridan's mastery of moral ambiguity and complex character development. When combined with all the techniques, they create his distinctive storytelling approach.
You will learn:
- 18 different comprehensive storytelling techniques that Taylor Sheridan uses in his various successful TV series.
- Each technique provides examples from a study of different Taylor Sheridan films and TV series.
- How Sheridan's impact on television has been transformative.
- How "Yellowstone" (2018-present) not only revitalized the Western genre but became a cultural phenomenon
- How these techniques spawned multiple successful prequels, including "1883" and "1923".
- How these techniques demonstrate his ability to apply his storytelling techniques across diverse genres.
- Scene Construction using these 15 different techniques with scene templates.
- How to use these techniques in scripts and novels
- How to adapt these storytelling principles into your own stories.
- How to weave these techniques into different genres.
- Master 'Keys' and 'Mantras' for expanded learning.
This Boot Camp is NOT affiliated with or endorsed by Taylor Sheridan or Paramount.
- Screenwriters: who want to create a compelling series that sells to producers because of its bingeworthy elements.
- Authors: who want to use the same bingeworthy elements seen in series that audience binge to use in their novels
- Writers: who are planning a series and want to learn how to ensure it sells to an agent or publisher because of its bingeworthy elements.
Authors, writers and screenwriters can all learn from the expertise Taylor Sheridan infuses into his bingeworthy series!
- 5 x 1-hour intensive sessions
- Daily practical assignments
- Group discussion and feedback
- Take-home reference materials
- Limited seats available to ensure personalized attention
Here are details for the trio of Boot Camps to ensure your stories are bingeworthy.
HOW TO WRITE LIKE TAYLOR SHERIDAN
Immerse yourself in the distinctive writing style that has redefined modern television drama.
- Analyse Sheridan's unique approach to story structure
- Master his techniques for character development and motivation
- Study his methods for creating authentic, memorable dialogue
- Learn to write visceral action and meaningful silence
- Understand his approach to theme and social commentary
- Develop skills for writing strong female characters in male-dominated worlds
- Create compelling antagonists with understandable motivations
- Master the art of revealing character through action
- Build tension through environmental and situational pressure
- Learn how to adapt his 15 strong techniques to your own writing.
Transform your understanding of modern television writing through the lens of one of the industry's most distinctive voices.
THE BINGE FACTOR: ENGINEERING ADDICTIVE SERIES
Discover the psychology and craft behind television's most compulsively watchable shows.
- Master the art of nested narrative hooks across episodes
- Create strategic reveal patterns that drive viewer engagement
- Design episode endings that compel viewers to keep watching
- Develop character arcs that deepen progressively across a season and series of novels
- Craft multilayered mysteries that fuel audience theories
- Balance episodic satisfaction with season-long tension
- Build subplot architecture that enriches without overwhelming
- Create narrative payoffs that satisfy while opening new questions
- Learn techniques for maintaining quality under binge-watch pressure
- Learn the key binging principles and how to adapt them into your own stories.
Leave with the tools to create series that audiences can't stop watching while maintaining artistic integrity and narrative depth.
CREATING SERIES THAT SPAWN SERIES
Learn to build rich narrative ecosystems capable of supporting multiple successful series.
- Design primary narratives with organic expansion potential
- Create character webs that support multiple storylines
- Identify and develop strong spin-off opportunities
- Master techniques for backdoor pilot episodes and book series
- Maintain story continuity across multiple series
- Build worlds with enough depth to sustain multiple series
- Study successful and failed spin-offs to understand key differences
- Learn how to exploit aspects of your storyline to keep spawning new spin-offs to keep your story world alive, thus giving your audience reasons to keep binging on your writing.
Emerge with the ability to create expansive story worlds that can grow into successful multi-series, possibly franchises, while maintaining quality and coherence.
Master the Art of Bingeworthy Drama
Discover the storytelling secrets behind shows like Yellowstone, 1923, and Mayor of Kingstown in this intensive 5-day workshop. Learn how to craft compelling characters, build sustainable tension, and create stories that resonate with modern audiences.
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What You Will Learn
Learn a new technique each day, over 5 days, and how to adopt Taylor Sheridan's storytelling power into your own writing. Includes: Daily live instruction, Practical writing exercises, Comprehensive workbook.
- Character development that drives story
- Dialogue that reveals power dynamics
- Scene construction that builds tension
- Conflict creation that sustains narratives
- Story engines that power series
Bonus Extras
Complete reference guide to Sheridan's storytelling techniques to take away and continue learning how to apply his techniques into your own stories.
Learn the principles behind successful series like Yellowstone, 1923, and Wind River through analysis and practical application. This workshop examines Taylor Sheridan's storytelling techniques through publicly available works.
This Boot Camp is NOT affiliated with or endorsed by Taylor Sheridan or Paramount.
Why This Boot camp?
You'll discover how to:
- Create complex, believable characters
- Build sustainable story conflicts
- Craft dialogue that carries power
- Develop scenes that grip audiences
- Write stories that last
Boot Camp Details
1. The live virtual sessions run for 5 days from the 7th April to 11th April 2025 at 6pm CET, 5pm BST, 9am PST, 12 noon EST.
2. If you can't attend the live sessions, you can take the recorded sessions, which will be available online after the live sessions.
3. The Live Session attendees also receive the recording.
This Write Like Taylor Sheridan Boot Camp is ideal for authors with published novels, so they can learn how to write compelling book series with techniques that Taylor Sheridan uses.
This Write Like Taylor Sheridan Boot Camp is ideal for writers with unpublished manuscripts, who want to learn about the art of storytelling using techniques that Taylor Sheridan uses.
This Write Like Taylor Sheridan Boot Camp is ideal for screenwriters, who want to learn how to take their film and TV scripts to the next level using Taylor Sheridan techniques.