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CS Web.ws - A Screnwriting Network
Presented by Creative Screenwriting, 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.Creative Screenwriting
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.
Entertainment 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.
How to Write a Screenplay
Writer/Director James P. Mercurio presents a step-by-step approach to writing your first or fiftieth screenplay. Dont miss the huge archive of articles on all aspects of developing your screenwriting craft.
Screenwriting Message Boards
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.
Movie Scripts Online
A growing online database of movie scripts and TV scripts, this site also offers links to additional articles and interviews for each script included. No transcriptions or html links here. Only verified pdfs. And don't forget: you can always use the screenplay search function on the left side of every CS Web page to find the screenplays you are looking for.
Screenplay Contest (AAA)
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.
Screenplay Contests
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.
Screenplay Format
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.
Screenplay Treatment
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.
Screenwriter Interviews
There is no better way to learn the craft and business of screenwriting than speaking with the best scriptwriters working today. Screenplay Writer offers more than 150 complete interviews from the likes of Paul Thomas Anderson, John August, William Broyles, Antwone Fisher, David Goyer, Brian Helgeland, Charlie Kaufman, Kenneth Lonergan, Christopher McQuarrie, Alexander Payne, Richard Price, Tim Robbins, Gary Ross, John Sayles, Ron Shelton, Andrew Stanton, Ted Tally, and Nia Vardalos. This is an amazing opportunity to learn from these master screenwriters.
Screenwriting Books
The number of books available on screenwriting is staggering and it can be difficult to decide which ones would be the most beneficial for your writing and career. This site contains detailed reviews of more than 200 books for screenwriters. Check here before you buy.
Screenwriting Expo
Held October 19-22, 2006 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 shouldnt miss.
Screenwriting Expo DVDs
Creative Screenwriting magazine brings you the best A-list speakers and seminars from the Expo on DVD. Beginning at only $14.95, these DVDs are a huge value.
Screenwriting Resources
Hosts the largest database of current production companies accepting unsolicited query letters on the Internet. Includes information on all the best products and services for screenwriters. Software, consultants, script supplies, this site reviews the best of everything you need for your career. Site also hosts the last big roundup review on screenplay consultants conducted by Creative Screenwriting. Don't miss this resource.
Script Sales
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.
Scriptwriting Business
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.
TV Screenwriting
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.
245,000 words, 480 pages of the finest advice and commentary from top A-list screenplay writers. This book features some of the best interviews these A-list writers have ever given.
Feature interviews with M. Night Shyamalan, Quentin Tarantino, Frank Darabont, Oliver Stone, Paul Thomas Anderson, Shane Black, John Carpenter, Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio, Scott Frank, William Goldman, Peter Jackson, Charlie Kaufman, Callie Khouri, David Koepp, David Lynch, Christopher McQuarrie, Christopher Nolan, Alexander Payne, Robert Rodriguez, David O. Russell, John Sayles, Paul Schrader, Kevin Smith, Robert Towne, Andrew Kevin Walker, and 17 more!
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