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Suggested Screenwriter Links 

Copywrite Your Script

NEW! - The Screenwriting Bible - Absolutely Free Download! Nothing more to buy. Get A -Z Info on all aspects of screenwriting. A wealth of information from writing to publishing - Highly recommended for beginners, or advanced Screenwriters. Full 425 pages in PDF format, with supplements. Published by Kelcey Coe.    

 

 

Build An Audience For Your Filmmaking Blog
How would you like to have people from all over the world reading your blog content? Sounds pretty good, right?

This blog network allows you to syndicate your blog content so that other blogs or web sites can distribute or re-publish your articles, videos, photos, and podcast content. It's incredibly easy to set up your syndication feed and start sending all your great articles out to the world wide web. Read more...

Creating A Screenplay Concept
Every great screenplay begins with a story concept. For writers, it can often be a daunting task to create this concept. There's nothing more difficult than inventing conflict, characters, and action, and molding them into a beginning, middle, and end. There is a working methodology you can use to find a story idea and shape it into a compelling plot. This methodology consists of three steps. Read more...

Writing A Script Treatment
It is useful to write a script treatment before writing a screenplay. The treatment provides a rough overview of the screenplay and is stylistically similar to a short story. Read more...

How to Format a Screenplay
You've plotted your story, developed your characters, and written a scene-by-scene outline of your story. Now you're ready to write it in professional screenplay format. Keep in mind that a screenplay is visual and your characters' actions move the story forward from scene to scene. Actions show the audience what it needs to know. Your characters' dialogue supports the actions. Seeing a character do something is far more powerful than having him or her talk about it. Read more... 

Suggested Screenwriters Links:

Scriptwriting Secrets - A great site for learning all the mechanics of writing a decent script. Good use of examples of each element of the script.  Free

Creative Screenwriting - Lots of good resources, and information about screenwriting. Part of Creative Screenwriting Magazine.  FreeThe well respected staple source for writers wanting to sell their stories. Also, has lots of resources for members. For a dirt cheap monthly fee (a few dollars) you can access their database of reputable companies looking for written material of all types, including Movie, TV, Stage Plays,  and other scripts. Listings include - description of needs, guidelines for submission, and all contact information for each company.

The Writers Market - Old, established source for script submissions

 

Copywrite Your Script - Note: Best to use both sources

Writers Guild of America (WGA) - Commonly used by writers to copyrights their material.

US Copyright Office - The official government office to obtain copyrights.

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