#SCREENWRITING

Gloria Calderón Kellett

everythingloria

People are always asking what the recent program are for writers. Here are some. Check them out. See if you qualify. Then get those materials in order and SUBMIT!Academy Nicholl

Ken Miyamoto

KenMovies

Hey #Screenwriters. At some point in your #screenwriting career, you’re going to need to write what I call your “Fuck It” script. That script where you don’t worry about anything/anyone

Jeremiah Lewis

fringeblog

I've got a $50 Grubhub gift card I'm not going to use. I'd like to give it to someone in the #WritingCommunity who could really use it. If you or

Mark Casadei 🎬

markliterally

Fellow grinders:We started writing from Alaska, then everywhere but L.A. It took 15yrs to get here. Perfecting our craft and brand along the way. Our first deals were writing from

Stellar Scripts

stellarscripts

False Inciting Incident: In some stories the main conflict kicks in only in the second act – but the story requires extensive setup, and without some kind of inciting incident first

Corey Deshon

CoreyDeshon

Had an interesting thought today while looking back at this year in #screenwriting...The first producer who read a certain script of mine stopped halfway through and called it too confusing

Jeanne Veillette Bowerman

jeannevb

We talk about #screenwriting contests a lot on #scriptchat & I want to reiterate a couple of things. THREAD ALERT. Let’s talk about the realities of finding success & how

Adam O'Fallon Price

AdamOPrice

Something underdiscussed in fiction—if it's discussed at all—is the idea of a midpoint. Midpoints are a big part of screenwriting craft, but hardly every considered in fiction, which is one

Kyle Peck

kylethepeck

Many of you probably don't give a shit... I worked in development for 7 years with two working producers (one now runs a studio). I worked in a writers' room.

Stellar Scripts

stellarscripts

Suspense Flashback:If you must include flashback in your story, design it for suspense, treating it as a proverbial Hitchockian "conversation with the ticking bomb underneath the table".Set the ticking bomb

A.L. Washington

a_l_washington

1) I'll admit: I blew A LOT of money on contests when I first started screenwriting. Not thousands. Fuck that. But a few hundred too much when you’re encumbered in

Ken Miyamoto

KenMovies

#Screenwriters, name a script you wish you had written. The one you think is one of the best of all time. And the one that you enjoy most as a

John Zaozirny

johnzaozirny

THREAD: I've seen people express on twitter and otherwise that because they didn't go to film school and/or have no "formal training" that they feel unqualified to be a screenwriter.

Obryantcj

obryantcj

I’ve had a dozen or so DMs this week about screenwriting contests, which are worth it and which aren’t.I, without a doubt, have very strong opinions on that subject.But I

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DaRealManicMike

To all the #artists (@Massawyrm, @scottderrickson) who may have had their projects pushed off due to #COVID, I feel you, but remember: now more than EVER the world needs our

Jace Serrano

JaceSerrano

Recently read an analysis of one of my early scripts. The review was..not so great. In the spirit of celebrating how far I’ve come, I thought I'd share some of