Video Online Master Classes —
From author & award winning screenwriter Max Adams
“Max’s new and unique video series will empower you with principles and techniques that you’ll think you’re hearing for the first time. I recommend you take a deep dive into these clearly presented video courses. You’ll find they are immediately applicable to your own screenplay.” — Dave Trottier, author, The Screenwriter’s Bible
MASTERING STORY MOMENTUM || VIDEO MASTER COURSE || AVAILABLE NOW!
Mastering Story Momentum is an eight part online video master screenwriting class. Full course running time is two & a half hours. Mastering Story Momentum is a member of the structure & pacing class set from TheAFW and author & award winning screenwriter Max Adams. Mastering Story Momentum is available both as a video course and as a six week online course studying with Max Adams.
CHARACTER WRITING || VIDEO MASTER COURSE || AVAILABLE NOW!
Character Writing is an eight part online video master screenwriting class. Full course running time is two & a half hours. Character Writing is a member of the character class set from TheAFW and author & award winning screenwriter Max Adams. Character Writing is available both as a video course and as a six week online course studying with Max Adams.
VISUAL WRITING || VIDEO MASTER COURSE || AVAILABLE NOW!
Visual Writing is an eight part online video master screenwriting class. Full course running time is two & a half hours. Visual Writing is a member of the visuals & motion class set from TheAFW and author & award winning screenwriter Max Adams. Visual Writing is available both as a video course and as a six week online course studying with Max Adams.
DYNAMIC WRITING || VIDEO MASTER COURSE || AVAILABLE NOW!
Dynamic Writing is an eight part online video master screenwriting class. Full course running time is two & a half hours. Dynamic Writing is a member of the visuals & motion class set from TheAFW and author & award winning screenwriter Max Adams. Dynamic Writing is available both as a video course and as a six week online course studying with Max Adams.
SIX WEEK SCREENWRITING MASTER CLASSES SCHEDULE
2026
01.06.26: The Voice Class 1
01.06.26: The First 30 Pages
03.10.26: Mastering Story Momentum
03.10.26: The Voice Class 2
05.12.26: High Concept Writing
05.12.26: The Writer's Reel *cancelled
07.07.26: The Art of the Pitch
07.07.26: Dialogue Writing
09.08.26: Character Writing
09.08.26: Visual Writing
11.03.26: The Voice Class 1
11.03.26: Dynamic Writing
2027
01.05.27: The Voice Class 2
01.05.27: The First 30 Pages
*additional 2027 class dates TBA
SCREENWRITING VIDEO MASTER CLASSES SCHEDULE
About Max Adams
MAX ADAMS is an author and award winning screenwriter. She has written for Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures, Tri-Star Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, Universal Pictures — and a couple others to remain unnamed because no one around here wants to get black listed.
Max is a former volunteer AFI Alumni reader and WGAw online mentor, former Nicholl reader and judge, has appeared as a speaker at, among other places, AMPAS, USC, and Film Arts Foundation, is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at University of Utah and a former lecturer & instructor at New York Film Academy, is the author of The Screenwriter’s Survival Guide AND The New Screenwriter’s Survival Guide, is the founder of two international online screenwriting workshops — and TheAFW — and has the dubious distinction of having been dubbed “Red Hot Adams” by Daily Variety for selling three pitches over a holiday weekend — which made her agents cry.
[In a good way.]
She answers now to both “Max” and “Red Hot” in crowds and dog parks.
Max has been writing, selling, mentoring, and teaching for two decades. Four or her workshoppers have won Nicholl Fellowships from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences. Many of her students and workshoppers have gone on to option, sell, publish, and produce work.