Featured Link:
Quora.com – Quora is an excellent resource for screenwriters. Many working screenwriters, including current WSF President Ken Miyamoto, are available to answer many questions that screenwriters have regarding the art, craft, and business of screenwriting.
There is a plethora of great questions and great answers from many different screenwriters, producers, directors, actors, etc. You too can also go to the site and post any questions and expect detailed answers from professionals.
Quora can also be used as a research tool for screenplays as well. Whether the topic be law enforcement, military, history, science, math, cultures, etc. You can search their questions and answers or post your own.
On top of that, it’s a fun. It is perhaps one of the best movie trivia sites online, as well as a great community of film lovers discussing various topics of cinema.
Local (Midwest U.S.):
Milwaukee Independent Film Society
Minnesota Screenwriters Workshop
Screenwriting Publications:
Writer’s Guild of America:
Writer’s Guild of America – West
Writer’s Guild of America – East
Register Your Work:
U.S. Library of Congress Copyright Office
Craft:
Robert McKee’s Ten Commandments
The UCLA Extension Writers’ Program
Software:
Script Right (for mobile devices)
Notable Events:
Notable Contests:
Final Draft’s Big Break Contest
Screenwriting Fellowships:
The Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab
Screenwriting Blogs:
Download Screenplays:
And if you can’t find what your looking for, you’ll probably be able to purchase it from:
Marketing/Research:
Creative Screenwriting’s Resource Page
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences
Recommended Screenwriting Books
- The Screenwriter’s Bible by David Trottier
- How Not to Write a Screenplay: 101 Common Mistakes Most Screenwriters Make by Denny Martin Flinn
- Dr. Format Answers Your Questions by David Trottier
- The Screenwriter’s Workbook by Syd Field, Dell Publishing Co.
- The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
- Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman
- The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters by Karl Iglesias
- The Screenwriter’s Legal Guide by Stephen Breimer
Screenwriting Workshops:
Screenwriting: Write Your First Draft Fast
FADE IN: “Formula” marathons for writing often yield an unsatisfying script. Pour a cup of java and let’s make writing fast mesh with writing quality. We cover: 1) making a script effective from the start; 2) developing story structure; 3) deepening characterization; 4) enriching scenes; 5) discovering the secrets of middles; 6) finding endings with fast finish techniques.
Level I features optional, basic-level exercises, $195
Level III Be-A-Pro & Script Critique, includes feedback on all exercises and a critique of your finished draft, $395.
SPECIAL BENEFIT OF THIS COURSE: All levels give you a professional mentor who won’t disappear after you finish the workshop. Create dynamic stories all the way to FADE OUT. Work at your own pace. Noncredit.
Sponsored by UW-Madison Liberal Studies & the Arts.
You can register by calling (608) 262-7942, or visit the website for more details on the course: http://www.dcs.wisc.edu/lsa/online/writing/screenwriting.htm
Christine DeSmet is an award-winning screenwriter, member of Writers Guild of America, East, a novelist, a fellowship graduate of the Warner Bros. TV Sitcom Workshop, and has a project at New Line Cinema. She writes screenplays with Peggy Williams. You can contact Christine at cdesmet@dcs.wisc.edu or visit the UW website at http://www.dcs.wisc.edu/lsa/writin
UCLA Extension Writers’ Program
The UCLA Extension Writers’ Program is the nation’s largest university-related writing program, offering 550 courses annually in screenwriting and creative writing. Designed to meet the needs of sophisticated adult learners worldwide, the Writers’ Program features 250 individual feature film and television writing courses each year (onsite and online), a teaching staff of 80-plus professional screenwriters, agents, and executives, two results-oriented certificate programs in feature film and television writing, a nine-month Master Class in Feature Film Writing, a Script Consultation Service, and a Screenplay Competition.
Visit http://www.uclaextension.edu writers for more information.
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