Emotional Toolbox

Screenwriter and consultant Laurie Hutzler has decades of experience in Feature Film, TV, Stage, Online and video game content. Emotional Toolbox is Laurie's outlet for providing established and budding screenwriters with the tools to improve and develop their stories and characters, whatever the medium or format, into something far more engaging and three-dimensional. Spearheaded by the One Hour Screenwriter course, Laurie's services as a consultant, and her products including The Character Map and "The Power of..." series, have benefitted screenwriters from Hollywood to Scandinavia. ETB practical problem-solving techniques have been applied successfully in both scripted and unscripted projects around the world. The Emotional Toolbox process has been used by the BBC, Channel 4, ITV, talkbackTHAMES, Mersey Television/Lime Pictures and Aardman Animation Studio (UK), for NBC, Pixar University, Disney, and Dreamworks (US), for Endemol Netherlands (NL), for RTL, Weidemann Berg, and Grundy UFA (Germany), for GloboMedia (Spain), Rubicon and Spartacus TV (Norway) and for TNT (Russia), and for FremantleMedia across a variety of scripted and entertainment formats in the US, UK, Europe, and Australia. We help content creators Get to the Heart of the Story®.