Overcoming Your Artistic Flaws with Writer-Turned-Licensed Psychologist, Phil Stark

Join us as we speak with writer (South Park, That ‘70s Show, Dude, Where’s My Car) turned psychologist, Phil Stark, to dive into your artistic flaws including procrastination and impatience and learn how to overcome them. *This event was rescheduled from October.

Some things you will learn in this webinar:

• The cause of procrastination and how to push past it
• The key to managing impatience
  
• How to face and overcome changes and struggles in your writing career
  
• How to create good writing habits
  

Phil Stark is a screenwriter (South Park, That ‘70s Show, Dude, Where’s My Car?) and therapist. He sees clients virtually in private practice, and writes about mental health and personal growth as experienced through talk therapy. His latest book, Dude, Where’s My Car-tharsis?, is available on Amazon.

Max Timm is the Director of Education with the International Screenwriters’ Association, Co-VP of Development for Creative Screenwriter Prods, and the President of The Story Farm Coaching service. With nearly 20 years of experience in the entertainment industry and in developing written material and writers’ careers, his focus with the ISA is to shepherd writers to industry professionals, offering exposure alongside career-long education. He has coached and consulted on material written by writers ranging from beginner to A-list actors creating their own vehicles. His online class, The Craft Course in Screenwriting, offers writers an in-depth yet easy to understand approach to professional full development. In order to connect with as many aspiring writers as possible, he also helped create and launch multiple webinars, workshops, and the ISA's 30-Day Screenwriting Challenge. Aside from focusing on education, Max has joined forces with his ISA cohorts to launch a production and development company called Creative Screenwriter where they develop and produce low to mid-range budgeted films and TV series written by ISA’s top members.
Max is also a screenwriter and author. His debut novel, a young adult fantasy adventure titled The WishKeeper, about a teenage fairy with broken wings, won the YA category of the Los Angeles Book Festival, released nationwide and internationally, and is now being shopped as an animated series. Max has also served as a part-time instructor at UCLA, and travels nationally speaking at various industry events such as the Sundance Film Festival, Nashville Writers Conference, and the Napa Valley Film Festival.