Screenwriting Web
CS Web.ws
A Screenwriting Network
Presented by Creative Screenwriting Magazine
CS Web.ws is your portal to the screenwriting world. Included in the sites below are more than 1,000,000 words of advice to help you make the transition from aspiring to professional screenwriter.
Named the “Best Magazine About Screenwriting” by the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, Creative Screenwriting is the premiere magazine for TV and feature film writers. Creative Screenwriting also publishes CS Weekly, the premiere e-magazine for screenwriters. Sign up for free by entering your e-mail in the box on the right. Give it a chance and Creative Screenwriting
will become your “Bible” in the industry.
Writer/Producer Heather Hale presents a step-by-step guide to how the entertainment industry works. Soak up years of learn-as-you-go knowledge as she lays out all the power relationships in Hollywood.
Writer/Director James P. Mercurio presents a step-by-step approach to writing your first or fiftieth screenplay. Don’t miss the huge archive of articles on all aspects of developing your screenwriting craft.
The best place to ask for advice from fellow aspiring writers and professionals, or to share tips. This site also hosts job boards for writers who are interested in working with independent and new media directors and producers. Don't miss any opportunity to build your career.
Sponsored by Creative Screenwriting magazine, the AAA Screenplay Contest is held twice a year (June and December) and offers big prizes and access to more than 320 production companies, agencies, and managers for its winners. Only $40 to enter.
Offers ratings on more than 200 different screenplay contests. Screenplay contests are one of the best ways to get your screenplay noticed by producers. Contest coordinator Anna Siri presents a comprehensive guide for entering and winning screenplay contests and interviews with contest coordinators and contest winners. Learn the inside information on how to win.
You have to look professional to be considered in Hollywood, but the intricacies of screenplay format can be baffling even for seasoned writers. This site presents the standard screenplay format and answers all your questions.
What is a screenplay treatment? How can you use a treatment to pre-write your screenplay? Can you sell your story on the basis of a treatment? Writer/Producer Michael Halperin lays out an approach you can use to writing treatments for your feature and TV scripts.
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Held October 24-28, 2007 in Los Angeles, the Screenwriting Expo is the largest conference for screenwriters in the world. Offering 4-days of A-list speakers, pitching, networking, and more than 350 seminars, the Expo is the one event that every aspiring screenwriter shouldn’t miss.
Creative Screenwriting magazine brings you the best A-list speakers and seminars from the Expo on DVD. Beginning at only $24.95, these DVDs are a huge value.
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A free database of spec script and pitch sales dating back to 1995. See what types of screenplays have sold in the genre you're working in, or to the producers you're interested in working with. The database is also referenced by writer, agency, company, and keyword.
You have a finished script, now what do you do. Writer/Producer Michael Lent presents his five-year plan for scriptwriting success including how to get past the studio reader, how to agent your own material, and how to work a meeting to your advantage. Writer/Producer Ron Suppa fills in the gaps in your knowledge base on becoming a working professional. This site also hosts a large archive of additional articles on the business of scriptwriting.
Do you want to get paid? Do you want job security? Do you want control over your vision? Then television writing is for you. Veteran TV writer and producer Catherine Clinch presents her method for writing a TV screenplay from concept to production, discusses how the networks and studios work, the rules of writing two, four, and seven-act scripts, and how to approach writing a spec for an existing show.
All of these sites are presented by Creative Screenwriting magazine. Enjoy!
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