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Articles For Screenwriters and Playwrights

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Agents Contests
Options and Sales Improving Your Craft
For Beginners Playwriting
Formatting Conferences and Seminars
Feedback and Reviews The Business of Screenwriting
Queries and Loglines Writing Partners and Groups

 

 

Agents

 
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"Parting Ways with Your Agent" by Craig Mazin

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"To Be (Represented) Or Not to Be (Represented)... That is the Question" by Dean Cavanagh

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"If You Can't Send the Script to the Agent, Bring the Agent to the Script" by Angelo Bell

 

Contests

 
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"Contest Advice from the San Diego Film Festival Screenplay Contest" by Joel Eisenberg

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"How to Win Screenwriting Contests" by Christina Hamlett

 

Options and Sales

 
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"What’s the Deal With Free Options?" by Paul Lawrence

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"How My Life Became a Movie of the Week" by Michael Dare

 

Improving Your Craft

 
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"Writing What Can't Be Seen" by David Terruso

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"When 'The End' Is In Sight" by Ami Hendrickson

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"Adaptations As Writing Instruction" by Judy Kellem

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"The Heart and Soul of Screenwriting: Writing Good Dialogue and Description" by Gordy Hoffman

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"Six Points to Ponder When Writing Your Screenplay" by Brandy Stoner

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"Screenwriting Tips from a Screenplay Contest Judge" by Gordy Hoffman

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"Tension Holds Your Screenplay Together" by David Terruso

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“What’s Your Sign? Selling More Scripts Through Personality Typecasting” by Marisa D’Vari

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“Petticoats and Spaceships: Why Writing a Science Fiction Script is Like Writing a Period Piece” by Steven Payne

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“Point of View: Why Your Screenplay Needs One” by David Terruso

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“Everything I Needed to Know About Character Development I Learned from a Fish” by Wendy Whitbeck

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“Know Your Characters Like You Know Your Friends” by David Terruso

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"Evaluating Your Own Work" by Derek Rydall

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"Aiming" by David Terruso 

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"Errol Morris: Writing the Documentary in Your Head" by Brad Schreiber

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Readers' Turn: Most Important Lessons about Screenwriting

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"The Low-Down on High Concept" by Alexis Niki

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"Deleted Scenes: Editing on Remote Control" by Cindy Appel  

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"Group Scenes" by Leon Kaye

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"Action" by Barbara J. Hunter

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"ENOUGH, ALREADY! or Wait... listen... yes, it’s that Fat Lady and she is definitely singing" by Pamela Jaye Smith

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"The Real Craft of Screenwriting" by Claudia Johnson & Matt Stevens

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"Easy Online Research for your Screenplay" by Carolyn Kelley

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"Sharpening Your Hooks" by Judy Kellem

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"From Point 'A' To Point 'B': How To Handle Transitions" by Christina Hamlett

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"Angels, Aliens, and Altered States, or Do pay attention to the man behind the curtain" by Pamela Jaye Smith

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"How Do Screenwriters Construct Three-Dimensional Characters?" by Bruce Meade

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"A Reporter's Questions: Steps to Creating a New Story" by Bruce Meade

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"Crafty Screenwriting" by Alex Epstein

 

For Beginners

 
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"Beyond FADE OUT" by Carolyn Kelley

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"First Appearances" by Christina Hamlett

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"How To Get Your Script Slammed Shut (Or, What Price Obscurity?)" by Natalie Lemberg Rothenberg

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"I'm Gonna Be Huge...And Other Myths I Believed for at Least 6 Months" by Jenna Glatzer

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"Crafty Screenwriting" by Alex Epstein

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"Protecting Your Screenplay" by Bill Craig

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"Understanding What A Story Is" by Bill Johnson

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"You Know You Know" by Bruce Meade

 

Playwriting

 
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"Putting the 'Play' Back in Playwriting" by Ethan Kanfer

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"Why Not Write A Play?" by Leon Kaye

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"Raise the Curtain" by Steve Newman

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"Building a Better Playwright" by Christina Hamlett

bullet"The Business of Playwriting" By Jacqueline McMahon
bullet"Writing a Musical for Kids" by Jacqueline McMahon
bullet"One Only Dreams Of More Than One" by Mark Troy

 

Formatting

 
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"Novel to Screenplay: The Challenges of Adaptation" by Lynne Pembroke and Jim Kalergis

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"Lesson Six-- Formats; Script and Manuscript" by M.L. "Max" Roth

 

Conferences and Seminars

 
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"Hollywood by the Bay Screenwriting Conference" review by Melissa Prusi

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"The Third Annual Las Vegas Screenwriters Conference: Schmoozing, Sin City Style" by Pete Barnstrom

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"The Austin Film Festival: How To Work It Like a Borrowed Mule" by Pete Barnstrom

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"Flogging 'Mel' At Cannes" by Nina Galen

 

Feedback and Reviews

 
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"Your Motivation" by Jenna Glatzer

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"Writing Out Loud: How a Reading Can Benefit Your Screenplay" by Tommy Donbavand

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"What Do You Think?" By Michael Gill

 

The Business of Screenwriting

 
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"Sometimes It Simply Needs A Little Bit of Makeup" by Craig Kellem

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"Pitching is a Hot Topic (Learn About the Dreaded Art)" by Craig Kellem

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"The Business of Screenwriting" by Andrea Leigh Wolf

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"Working Your Way Toward the Silver Screen, or It Helps to Have a Day Job in the Meantime" by Christina Hamlett

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"Trailerized Scripts-- The Latest Marketing Tool" by Mary Case

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"Getting to Hollywood Via the Indies" by Christina Hamlett

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"The Lure of the Million Dollar Script" by Thom Taylor

 

Queries and Loglines

 
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"The Query Quandary" by Shelly Steele

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"Making a Short Pitch Better " by Leon Kaye

 

Writing Partners and Groups

 
bullet"Ten Silver Screen Horror Characters to Watch Out for in a Screenwriting Mentor or Partner" by Chris Hare
bullet"'X' Never Marks The Spot" by Christina Hamlett
 

 

 

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