Do you dream of being a screenwriter? Have you envisioned your name stretched large and full across that big dark theater screen? More realistically, are you prepared to put your fingers to the keyboard for hours and days on end to complete and figure out all of those nuances of a story idea that you have banging around in your head? Oh, the pained labor and glory of finding the right words and breathing life into your characters. You know deep inside you could do it.

Not everyone has seen The Bucket List with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, but most are aware of the premise: live your life to the fullest before you die. Take the idea one step further, and I say seize your dreams now while you’re still alive and vibrant and here. Don’t wait for the last moments to ponder the “what ifs…”!

If you truly have that aching need to give your vision a shot, to write a screenplay from start to finish so you can say, “I did it!,” you’ve arrived at the place to start.

This coming summer from June 13^th to the 26^th, Lew Hunter hosts his Superior Summer Colony. This is an intense program for serious writers of all levels. You will be immersed in the screenwriting experience with opportunity to discuss, and receive feedback from your workshop facilitator and mentor, Lew Hunter. You will learn the facts of the Hollywood business, the fundamentals of writing screenplays and be given the foundation to grow as scribes.

The 14-day schedule will immerse you in the writing process where you will be encouraged to progress from story idea, to treatment, to step-outline and finally to complete the First Act of the Screenplay (30 pages). It is not unusual for participants to finish their entire first draft.

Lew Hunter has been commended as “an enabler” and a superb teacher in this craft, and his Screenwriting Colonies supply a nurturing environment where screenwriters flourish and take a hold of their dreams. Don’t ever look back on your life with regret. If screenwriting is something that you have hungered to try – and succeed – the Superior Summer Colony is the push-off point for you. To find out more, click here!

Originally released through TheReader.com
EDITOR'S NOTE: Leo Adam Biga spent four days and three nights covering Lew Hunter's Superior Screenwriting Colony, which wrapped June 27, 2008.

Twice a year a fractured fairy tale unfolds in Nebraska's Republican River Valley. Superior, a prosaic Nuckolls County border town of 2,055 in the state's most southern reaches, draws dreamers from near and far. They come, some halfway across America, some across the globe, to learn from a professor whose laidback Socratic method is Aristotle meets Jimmy Buffett.

The wise man is screenwriting guru Lew Hunter, a favorite son of Superior, born and raised in nearby Guide Rock

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