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How to Determine the Best Medium for Your Story

Recorded

May 7, 2025

Duration

2 Hours

Cost

$35

Subjects

Publishing, Screenwriting

Topic

Craft

It's never been more important to a writer's survival to learn to create in other mediums.

You know the basics of storytelling. You’ve mastered the art of imbuing the Who with specific needs and desires. You’re expert at the art of structuring the What with conflict and reversals. You’re old hat at using verisimilitude to fill out the Where and interrogating the spectrum of ethics for the Why. 

But what about the How? 

Author, comic writer and screenwriter Joshua Corin will help you determine what medium is the best fit for your story? Is it a play? A screenplay? A TV show? If it’s best told using narrative prose, should it be a short story? A novel? Somewhere in between? 

We'll go over the specific strengths and weaknesses of each medium, using successful (and less-than-successful) examples to highlight the importance of marrying the right content to the right form, as well as the additions and sacrifices required for adapting a story from one medium to another. 

This presentation will cover:

  • The universal components all stories must have
  • The specific components each medium requires
  • How to meet (and subvert) reader/audience expectations of that medium
  • How to adapt a story from one medium to another 
  • Many examples to guide us along the way
  • Q&A

*Send proof of purchase to symposium@pipelineartists.com for a copy of the presentation slideshow.

Host

Joshua Corin
Joshua Corin is the author of critically acclaimed novels, most recently Assume Nothing from Thomas & Mercer, and bestselling comic books, most recently Spider-Man/Deadpool from Marvel. His screenplay Windfall won first place in the Open Door Contest co-sponsored by Dimension films, and the video essays he has written for clients such as Wisecrack have received millions of views. His work has […]

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