Story. In a Nutshell.
JILL CHAMBERLAIN
Creator of the Nutshell Technique
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Script Consultant
Find the strongest version of your story with Jill’s expert guidance and The Nutshell Technique.
Jill has consulted on scripts for Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning, and BAFTA-winning screenwriters, showrunners, and producers — including some whose films have grossed over $1.5 billion — as well as many emerging and early-career writers developing their first scripts.
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Online Courses
Learn screenwriting and the Nutshell Technique directly from its creator.
Write a script or treatment in ten weeks in Jill’s live Zoom courses. Writers of all levels — from complete beginners to Emmy-winning professionals — take her classes to master what makes stories work.
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Feature & Series Development
Partner with Jill to develop features and series using the Nutshell Technique.
Jill collaborates with broadcasters, production companies, and film trade organizations to guide writers and writers’ rooms from concept to outline to script — and, for television, from pilot to fully mapped-out season and series.
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Speaker & Trainer
Bring in Jill to inspire and train your organization in the power of story structure and the Nutshell Technique.
Jill delivers dynamic, interactive lectures and training on screenplay story structure and screenwriting craft for organizations worldwide, speaking to writing groups, film schools, and entire broadcast networks.
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Authored by Jill Chamberlain, The Nutshell Technique is one of the highest rated screenwriting books on Amazon. Many writers and producers consider it an essential guide to story structure, and it is now taught in colleges all over the world.
Jill Chamberlain is the founder of a screenwriting school, a script consultant, a screenwriter, and author of The Nutshell Technique
The Nutshell Technique is considered the go-to manual many professionals swear by. It's on the syllabus at Columbia University, UCLA, and film schools all over the world. It's been published in Mandarin Chinese, Korean, and Italian, and in audiobook format. Since its release in 2016, it has received 559 five-star reviews on Amazon to date and has been blurbed by Oscar and Emmy winners.
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