It looks like Aaron Sorkin has learned how to stop worrying and love the internet. This summer, one can learn to never start dialogue with ‘damnit’ in a new masterclass from the writer, whose penned everything from The Social Network, Steve Jobs, The Newsroom, and The West Wing. He also covers more serious topics like realizing character arcs through dialogue, the importance of the but/except/then structure, the worst screenwriting crime, and hearing dialogue as music.
Following in the footsteps of Werner Herzog, pre-enrollment for the course is now available for $90, which grants early access to over 5 hours of material, launching later this summer. “There’s a great tradition of writers from one generation giving a hand to the next group coming up—a tradition I got a lot of benefit from. I think new screenwriters will come away from the MasterClass with a new sense of confidence,” Sorkin says.
See the official trailer for Sorkin’s masterclass below, and a pair of extensive discussions on The Social Network and Steve Jobs.