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New Book: YOUR WRITING COACH

"Your Writing Coach" shows all aspiring writers how to overcome fear, get past excuses, and start writing, offering practical advice on developing your niche, your writing style and your creativity.

More than just a 'how-to" book, Your Writing Coach is a friendly companion and mentor, providing all the strategies needed to become a full-time writer and build a successful writing career. Unique chapter bonuses linked to special website featuring interviews with leading producers, directors and agents which other writing books don't have. According to a recent survey 81 per cent of adults harbour dreams of writing but of those only 2 per cent have actually completed a manuscript.

While you can buy any number of books on how to write novels, screenplays, short stories, articles, memoirs and poetry, few offer the comprehensive coaching approach of "Your Writing Coach". Jurgen Wolff offers advice not only on managing time, but also motivation, energy and support. Drawing on a wide variety of disciplines and approaches, including NLP, "Your Writing Coach" offers breakthrough techniques for finding the time, the will and the way to write.

Featuring exercises, quotes and encouragement Jurgen Wolff shows you how to hook readers and keep them engaged and offers powerful tips on how to stay motivated and transform your inner critic into a constructive guide to get past the dreaded writer's block. Finally, it offers advice on marketing yourself and your work, and the tremendous opportunities offered by the new media - the internet, blogs, podcasts, and much more - for writers smart enough to find them.

Also hear Jurgen's new podcast at www.yourwritingcoach.com.

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Your Writing Coach: From Concept to Character, from Pitch to Publication - Everything You Need to Know About Writing Novels, Non-fiction, New Media, Scripts and Short Stories

 

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Book: DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT

In today's crowded marketplace it's not enough just to be providing a good product or service. To stand out, you must have a strong identity and a way to make your clients or customers aware of it. In this book, Jurgen Wolff reveals the 14 key principles of marketing and gives you 100 case studies of individuals and companies who have applied those principles successfully--and shows how you can apply the lessons of their experience. Whether you are a sole trader, or run a small or medium-sized business, the book will show you how to make a major impact with minimal spending. On top of all that, it's a very entertaining read!  This edition published in 2005.

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BOOK: SUCCESSFUL SITCOM WRITING

Jurgen Wolff has written scripts for many successful sitcoms, including BENSON, FAMILY TIES, and TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT in the United States, and LUKAS (which he co-created), NIKOLA, THE CAMPERS, and DAS AMT (THE OFFICE) in Germany. He created the animated sitcom, NORMAN NORMAL, which is running in Germany.

In this book he explains and demonstrates the entire process for aspiring sitcom writers, from generating lots of ideas, to creating characters, to structuring a story and writing the actual script. The book includes lots of samples, and quotes from other successful sitcom writers. The English version is published by St. Martin’s Press, the German version (called SITCOM) by Emons Verlag.

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BOOK: SUCCESSFUL SCRIPTWRITING
(Jurgen Wolff & Kerry Cox)

Published by Writer’s Digest Press, this book is a comprehensive guide to every kind of script writing. It includes chapters on writing for animation, writing TV movies, soaps, sitcoms, and one-hour dramatic series. It draws on the extensive experience of the authors and also on interviews with many other writers.

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BOOK: TOP SECRETS: SCREENWRITING
(Jurgen Wolff & Kerry Cox)

This is a book for anyone interested in writing feature films. It consists of over a dozen interviews with top feature film writers talking about how they approach their work and giving tips to new writers. It includes a three-act breakdown of each writer’s most successful film and a sample page from that screenplay.  Included are Stephen E. de Souza (Die Hard), Michael Blake (Dances With Wolves), Tom Shulman (Dead Poets Society) and many others. Professor Richard Walter, Screenwriting Chairman at UCLA, says, "This book is an authentic stand-out. The combinations of biographies, analyses, interviews and actual script samples is a real winner." The book is published by Lone Eagle Publishing Company. 

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CD: POWER TRANCES

As well as being a writer, Jurgen Wolff is a trained hypnotherapist. On this CD, he introduces you to the power of the subconscious mind and leads you through several visualizations, including a relaxation trance, a planning trance via a future interview, a trance that will help you cope with the inner critic, and a trance that will allow your subconscious mind to communicate with you more effectively. Total length: 69 minutes. The price of the CD for the UK is £12.95 (inc p & p), for the US its $16.50 (inc postage and handling) and for Europe it is 15 Euros (inc postage and handling,) and for other countries the equivalent in your currency (plus add an extra 2.95 for postage and handling.)  To order, please make your cheque payable to STAGEMANAGE LTD and send to: Brainstorm, 85 Ridgmount Gardens, London WC1E 7AY UK.

 

Video: The Real Howard Spitz
(Written by Jurgen Wolff)

Howard Spitz (Kelsey Grammer - Frasier) writes really bad detective novels and is broke. Having realized how much money per word can be made from children's books, he creates "Crafty Cow" the cow detective - "Days she gives milk, nights she's a detective!".  Whilst researching in a kids library, he meets Sam, a precocious pre-teen who offers him editoral advice in return for his help to find her long lost father. To everybody's surprise, not least Howard's weary agent, Lou, "Crafty Cow" becomes a huge hit. The only trouble is, Howard hates kids...so, unable to cope with his new found success, he hires an actor, the dim-witted Roger, to impersonate him.

As the search for Sam's father continues, Howard reluctantly falls for her mum, Laura (Amanda Donohoe), Roger develops an ego, Lou almost smiles and the whole scam gets increasingly out of control, forcing the real Howard Sptiz to finally step into the limelight.

Rated PG

 

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