BPS 023: The Nutshell Technique - Cracking the Secret of Successful Screenwriting with Jill Chamberlain

Today on the show we have author/veteran script consultant Jill
Chamberlain who's book The Nutshell Technique: Crack the
Secret of Successful Screenwriting has taken the screenwriting
world by storm. 

Jill Chamberlain discovered in her work that an astounding 99
percent of first-time screenwriters don't know how to tell a story.
What the 99 percent do instead is present a situation. In order to
explain the difference, Chamberlain created the Nutshell Technique,
a method whereby writers identify eight dynamic, interconnected
elements that are required to successfully tell a story.

Now, for the first time, Chamberlain presents her unique method in
book form with The Nutshell Technique: Crack the Secret of
Successful Screenwriting. Using easy-to-follow diagrams
("nutshells"), she thoroughly explains how the Nutshell Technique
can make or break a film script. Chamberlain takes readers
step-by-step through thirty classic and contemporary movies,
showing how such dissimilar screenplays as Casablanca, Chinatown,
Pulp Fiction, The Usual Suspects, Little Miss Sunshine, Juno,
Silver Linings Playbook, and Argo all have the same system working
behind the scenes, and she teaches readers exactly how to apply
these principles to their own screenwriting. Learn the Nutshell
Technique, and you'll discover how to turn a mere situation into a
truly compelling screenplay story.

Since its publication in 2016, The Nutshell Technique: Crack the
Secret of Successful Screenwriting an instant classic. It is the
go-to manual many professionals swear by, and it's on the syllabus
at colleges across the U.S. including the world-renowned
screenwriting program at Columbia University.

Enjoy my conversation with Jill Chamberlain.

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