WHAT I CAN OFFER:
A creative catalyst to your talent.
Boots-on-the-ground Hollywood experience working with and for you.
A capacity for realized empathy.
An astute and accurate evaluation of your work.
An extended awareness of story, character, conflict, dialogue, three-act structures, reversal, and subtext.

Because of my doctoral studies in semiology with Roland Barthes, I am able to work simultaneously on several different textual levels: from inception through realization, all the while remaining focused on where the script is functioning at any given moment.

WHO I AM
Most of all, a writer who shares in the creative reciprocity of mentoring other writers. Having taught screenwriting, prose and poetry workshops, literary and critical theory at CalArts and the French National Film School, I am committed to providing a consultation service that is not an inert form of communication, but a dialectic for you, the writer, and I, the mentor, to hone your screenplay to professional and aesthetic realization.

My own screenplay experiences include Blind Side on HBO, Mise en Abyme with Azur Films, 17 feature options, including options by Michael Hertzburg and John Manulis; an award from the Hawaii International Film Festival, semi-final placement in Scriptapalooza, and Second-Round selection for the Austin Film Festival in 2006 and 2007.

Additionally, my poetry has been published in Poetry, New American Review, Shenandoah, Beatitudes, and Paris Voices. I am a recipient of the Van Rensellaer Poetry Prize from Columbia University. Two works of fiction have been published: Shipwrecks and Other Drownings and Heart Quests, and sixteen book reviews have appeared in the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.

MY EDUCATION AND BACKGROUND
Doctorat de 3ème Cycle, Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France. Highest mention.

Research director: Roland Barthes.

M.F.A., Writing Division, School of the Arts, Columbia University. Honors. Thesis director: Mark Strand, poet laureate.

B.A. Reed College. Honors.

United States Marine Corps veteran.

ESL Instructor, Special Security School, Taif, Saudi Arabia.

Merchant Seaman, Sailors Union of the Pacific.

SERVICES AND FEES
Initial phone call or e-mail query to see if we can establish a rapport: No fee.

Creative brainstorming by telephone or e-mail: $100 per hour.

Synopsis evaluation (tracked editing commentary within your document): $150

Character and story development: $150.

Problematics: specific response to a problem acknowledged by the writer, e.g. sluggish 2nd act, tin dialogue, watery catharsis: $150.

Parallel mentoring: concept-to-completion weekly session with writer on script until ready for submission: $100 hourly session by phone and computer link.

Reading of complete script with tracked editing evaluation, plus a one-hour phone consultation or up to four e-mails: $350.

Submission strategy including query letters, legitimate competition advice, what-do-I-do-now? consultation: $100 hourly.

Rewriting entire script: $1,500. Half payable on commencement of work, the remainder paid when the writer determines the script is ready for submission.

Ghostwriting: fee determined by project.

TESTIMONIALS
"Stewart Lindh's dazzling academic pedigree combined with his skills as a poet, a playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and critic make him as close to the Renaissance ideal of the 'universal man' as anyone I've ever met."
Jon Wagner, Director, MFA Writing Program, CalArts

"I have not known anyone to be more generous with his or her time and expertise than Stewart Lindh."
Dr. Richard Middleton Kaplan, English Department, Harper College

"Stewart, you amaze me at how deeply you got inside the soul of my character in transforming my memoir Journey inside an Electronic Bracelet into a screenplay."
Dolores E. Cross, Ph.D.

"Not just the best writing coach, but the most insightful, thought-provoking teacher I've ever had."
Paul D.

"From the moment I sat down with Stewart, I knew that I had his full attention and that he would care about my writing as much as I did, as if it were his own."
Sarah H. Iowa Writer's Workshop

"With Stewart's help, my script was a finalist at both Sundance and the Writer's Network Competition."
Lyle W.

"Stewart Lindh brilliantly adapted my memoir Tales of an Unorthodox Veterinarian."
Rabbi Gideon Sorokin, DVM

"Stewart has an utterly unselfish willingness to help others succeed."
Lisa G.

"The most talented and likeable instructor I've ever met."
Nancy K.

"Stewart is the kind of person you only meet once in a lifetime."
Marlin S.

"Stewart, you gave me the opportunity to use my imagination. Thanks, Semper Fidelis"
Mike D.

"He validated my experience and imbued it with a depth I could never have imagined."
Susan B.

"I never felt somebody understand what I was trying to say and helped me to say it better."
David G.

RECOMMENDED READING
The Teaching of Screen and Television Writing - Eugene Vale
The Art of Dramatic Writing - Lajos Egri
Writing Degree Zero - Roland Barthes
Poetics - Aristotle

To get a sense of why I became a writer's mentor, please read Deadline about my time with my own mentor, listed under Samples of my Writing, on my website www.stewartlindh.com

TO CONTACT ME:
stewartlindh@earthlink.net