While the nineties and noughties were dominated by three act script gurus, broadcasters, production companies, agents and most importantly, audiences, are consistently demanding more elegant and sophisticated stories (and therefore screenplays).

Linda Aronson's 2 Day Workshop on advanced screenwriting technique and Parallel Narrative will show you how you can become a 21st Century Storyteller.

Linda is the world's leading expert in new story techniques and tools such as Flashback, Time Jumps, Tandem Narrative, Multiple Protaganists, Double Journeys, Consecutive Stories and Fractured Tandem (used in films like Pulp Fiction, Inception, Atonement and 21 Grams)... She has created robust and powerful frameworks from which you can build those stories you want to tell, stories that feel limited or underdeveloped in a linear three act structure.

Hosted and run by The London Screenwriters Festival team, the masterclass takes place on November 12th and 13th, Regents College, London and costs £119 (discounted for LSF delegates)

Screenwriting today is dominated by the US mainstream model.

It is a fine model but it is not the only one. One of the unfortunate side-effects of the pervasiveness of this model is that, excellent as it is, it deems a whole range of stories unsuitable for film on the basis of their structure and content.

For writers, this can restrict the stories you want to tell, as well as the way in which they are structured.  Many films that won’t work in the traditional three act structure CAN work using one of the parallel narrative forms.

The fascinating thing is that the parallel narrative structures all conform to predictable patterns, patterns based on manipulating the three act structure in one or more ways - multiplying it, fracturing it, truncating it – hence it is possible to create templates and guidelines for writing it.

The important thing to remember when planning these structures is that their mechanics are very precise. Each form requires a different structure and operates according to different rules.

This two day workshop will explore these new paradigms, deconstructing them so that YOU can use them in your projects too.

Lindas' short workshop at the London Screenwriters Festival was the highest rated session of over seventy, so you can be sure that the two day workshop will transform your writing. READ FEEDBACK HERE

'My seminars are very practical. I'm a writer, so, like you, I'm interested in how scripts work.  In my seminars I not only describe the outward appearance of parallel narrative forms  but I also explain the mechanics. Together, we lift the hood or bonnet and examine the engine inside to see firstly how it works and secondly - crucially - how you too can build it. I give templates that you can use as plans.

Very often things like flashbacks, flash forwards, non-linear narratives, multiple plots and ensemble casts are regarded as optional gimmicks stuck into the conventional three act structure. They're not. Each of the six types I've isolated and their subcategories provides a different take on the same story material.  Suddenly, one idea for a film can give you a multitude of story choices.

I explain the structural principle and practical mechanics of six types of parallel narrative 'engine' (they're all different), and their subcategories.

For example, in the flashback family alone there are six different sorts of sorts of flashback structure, each suited to a different purpose. I explain the potential traps and provide practical planning techniques - because these films need a great deal of planning.'

Linda Aronson

Venue The London College of Film, Media & Performance at Regents College