Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull Throne! Milk for the Khorne Flakes!
a.k.a just a slew of Screenwriting resource links I rounded up to share with the Triangle Filmmaking Community website. Maybe something here you haven’t seen before, maybe not. Whatevs.
Screenwriter Organizations
- International Screenwriting Association
- Writer’s Guild of America East
- Writer’s Guild of America West
Script archives
- Go Into The Story/Blcklst script downloads
- Internet Movie Script Database
- Simply Scripts
- TV scripts
- Screenplaydb
- BBC Writer’s Room Script Library
- Screenplays For You
- Screenplays-Online.de
- The Weekly Script
- Drew’s Script-o-rama
Scriptwriting Software
Software | Free | Paid | Platform |
---|---|---|---|
Final Draft | 30-day trial | $249.99 | Windows / Mac / App ($14.99) |
WriterDuet | Demo | Various price bands | Web – Windows / Mac / Mobile |
Slugline | Demo | $39.99 | Mac |
Highland | $29.99 | Mac | |
FadeIn | Demo | $49.95 | Windows / Mac / Linux |
CeltX | Free | Monthly costs | Windows / Mac |
Logline | $34.99 | Mac | |
Scrivener | 30 day free trial | $40 | Windows / Mac |
Trelby | Free | Windows / Linux | |
Adobe Story | $9.99 USD / month | Windows / Mac |
Notes/Outlining
Online Writer Communities
- Done Deal Pro
- The Black Board
- Write to Reel
- Wordplay Forums
- Stage32 Writers Lounge
- /r/Screenwriting
- Screenwriters Utopia
- Scriptwriters Network
- American Zoetrope
- Simply Scripts Forum
- Screenwriting Goldmine Forum
Tracking/Coverage/Analysis Services
- The Black List
- The Story Department
- The Tracking Board
- Trackingb.com
- Script Shark
- A Film Writer
- The Writer’s Lifeline
- Screenplay Development Notes
- Script A Wish
- Scriptapalooza Coverage
- Coverage, Ink
- Coverscript
- Talentville
Pitch/Submission Sites
Network Screenwriter Programs
- NBC Late Night Writers Workshop
- Nickolodeon Writing Program
- NBC Writers on the Verge
- WB Writers’ Workshop
- Disney/ABC Talent Development
- CBS Diversity Writers Mentoring Program
Contests For Pilots
Contests For TV Specs
Contests For Feature Screenplays
- Nicholl Fellowship
- Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab
- Austin Film Festival
- Page International Screenwriting Awards
- Final Draft Big Break
- Scriptapalooza Features
- Script Pipeline Screenwriting Contest
- TrackingB
- Screencraft
- Slamdance Screenwriting Competition
- American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest
- Film Independent Screenwriter Lab
Screenwriting Blogs
- Wordplay
- John August
- Go Into The Story (the blcklst blog)
- Script magazine
- Good in a Room
- The Bitter Script Reader
- The Unknown Screenwriter
- By Ken Levine
- Complications Ensue
- ScriptShadow
- Two Adverbs
- The Aspiring TV Writer & Screenwriter
- Bang 2 Write
- Screenwriting Spark
- My Blank Page
- Flying Wrestler
- Doug Richardson
Screenwriting Podcasts
- Scriptnotes Podcast
- WGAW 3rd & Fairfax Podcast
- Black List Table Reads
- Nerdist Writers Panel
- BAFTA Screenwriters’ Lecture Series
- Austin Film Festival’s On Story Podcast
- Elvis Mitchell’s The Treatment
- Draft Zero
- Nerdist Writer’s Panel
- The Q&A with Jeff Goldsmith
- Children of Tendu