Before asking you to entrust me with your project, your scenario, your story, it's polite for me to tell you mine.

In 2000, I resigned from an auditing firm near Paris to write a novel. Then, after reading Bloch/Fadiman/Peyser, McKee, Field, Seger, Vogler, etc., I decided to adapt this novel into a screenplay. I sent the screenplay to the European Conservatory of Audiovisual Writing (CEEA) located in Paris, to apply for the entrance exam to this prestigious school, which takes only twelve students a year. I passed the written and oral exams and was accepted into the 2003-2005 intake. For two years, I trained full-time to write scripts for feature films and TV movies, live-action and animation series, in all genres, with screenwriters, writers and instructors as varied as they were passionate. I learned to write within the constraints of a production. During these two years too, I worked full-time as a script-doctor on my classmates' work, just as they did on mine. I graduated.

A producer of a french youth series contacted me and I wrote several episodes for his program. Later I won a prize, "Audiovisual Innovation Grant" from the CNC (National Cinematography Center) for a short fantasy-comedy series I created. Then I moved to Spain, worked on novels and script-doctored screenplays and novels written by the authors in my network (CEEA screenwriters, French and Spanish authors). A Parisian photographer who has set up his publishing house discovered my texts and asked me to write poems for his fine books and exhibitions. Next, I met Rodolf Sirera, a multi-platinum Spanish playwright and established screenwriter; we started working on a project for a thriller series. I'm now based in Spain and France, and I created Scriptdoctor Pro to share with you the best of over twenty years of writing experience.

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My approach to writing

To tell a story, beyond communicating information that can arouse emotions, is to convey something that comes from deep within us. That inhabits us. That haunts us. We can only write well if we are true to who we are. But being true to who you are is not enough to write well. The transmission of what inhabits us is only made possible by a technique tried and tested over time and experience, what we commonly call “craftsmanship”. Some build houses with bricks or bake cakes with flour; as storytellers, we build narratives with words; emotions are our load-bearing wall, the yeast in our dough.

Geniuses are rare; more often than not, they've been hard at work. Fiction writing, whether screenplay or novel, is learned, as the saying goes, “through sweat and tears”. And it's relearned in one way or another with each new story. Each new story is a prototype. It creates its own universe, its own tone, its own structure, its own language. Its risks.

That's what makes it so exciting.

You want to minimize risk? Save the sweat, avoid the tears: contact me and let's talk about your project.

See you soon.

Marco

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