Screen/Play Resources

Jeff's Film Links: Scriptwriting
(with an emphasis on screenplay writing)

Jefferson Hendricks
Co-Founder and Faculty Director, The Centenary Film Society
Chair, Board of Directors, The Robinson Film Center of Louisiana
Professor of English and Film Studies, Centenary College of Louisiana

see also:

Jeff's Film Links: Essential Everyday Reading

Jeff's Film Links: Exhibition
Art/Independent Cinemas | Film Centers/Media Arts Centers/Microcinemas | Exhibition Info | Film Societies | Film Distributors/Studios | Film Festivals

Jeff's Film Links: Education
Film Criticism/Scholarship/Theory | Film Magazines/Journals | Film Genres | Writing About Film | Film Schools | Internships | Media/Visual Literacy | Filmmaking

Jeff's Film Links: The Film Business

General Sites and Links Pages for Screen/Play Writing

Done Deal's Links Page
Screenwriting Resources -- American Screenwriting Association
Screenwriting links -- Syd Fields
Screenwriting Links -- Internet Resources.com
Screenwriting links -- Writers Write
Film links -- The Screenplayers
Wordplay -- Terry Rossio & Ted Elliott
Screenwriters Utopia -- Christopher Wehner
Scriptologist
Writing for Performance -- Robin Kelly
Breaking Into Screenwriting
Writing for Film -- Rich Wilson
Beginning/Intermediate Screenwriting Frequently Asked Questions -- Alex Epstein
Third Millenium Entertainment -- Terrence J. Brady
Screenwriter's Resource Center
Screenwriters Online
Script Fly
Hollywoodlitsales
Play/Screenwriting Page @ Absolute Write
Links for narrative and storytelling -- James R. Elkins, U. of West Virginia
The 101 Best Web Sites for Writers -- Writers' Digest
Poewar.com: John Hewitt's Writer's Resource Center
Writer's Room -- BBC
Write Movies.com

Screenwriting/Playwriting Tips, Advice, and "How-To" Sites

Screenwriting

Charles Deemer

Plots Inc. -- Linda Cowgill
Script Secrets -- William C. Martell
Articles for Writers -- Mary Lynn Mercer, Why Stories Work
Screenwriting @ Screenwriting.info
Scriptwriting Secrets -- Writing Your Million Dollar Story -- Stephen Sashen -- a very good on-line book
From Fade In Through Fade Out--The Screenwriter's Book -- Jon George -- the complete book on-line
Screenwriter's Master Chart -- Mary Shomon -- an overview of plot construction
Michael Dare's (Screenwriting) FAQ
"How to Write A Screenplay" -- Empire Screenwriting Resource
Crafty Screenwriting -- Alex Epstein
"Twenty One Rules for Screenwriters" -- adapted from Ronald Dyas, Screenwriting for Television and Film
The Playwriting Seminars: Film -- Richard Toscan, Virginia Commonwealth U.
Library of Congress Copyright Office
The Elements of Good Storytelling series -- Kimberly Appelcline
Stephen J. Cannell Screenwriting Seminar
A Story is a Promise: Essays on the Craft of Dramatic Writing -- Bill Johnson, Portland, Oregon
The Nine-Act Structure Home Page -- David Siegel @ Story Web
The Visual Writer -- Dorian Scott Cole
Interviews with Screen/Play Writers -- E Scripts' Good Stuff
The Horror Screenwriter's Page -- Jeff Beres
The Basics of Screenwriting -- Amy Dunkleberger, AFI/Fathom
William R. Pace @ ScripTeach.com
Michael Hauge's Screenplay Mastery

Writing Treatments
A Few Thoughts on Treatments--Hollywood Scriptwriter (Lou Grantt)

Playwriting

Playwriting Basics -- Charles Deemer
The Playwriting Seminars -- Richard Toscan, Virginia Commonwealth U.
Playwriting 101
Playwriting ABCs -- Frank Moher, EScript
links for writing for the stage -- Robin Kelley

Radio Writing

Television Writing

The TV Writer Home Page -- "Larry Brody's Guide to Writing for the Medium Everyone Loves to Hate"
Sitcom: What It Is, How It Works -- Richard F. Taflinger, Washington State U.

Interactive Games

Skotos.net -- "an online storytelling community centered around multiplayer text-dominant interactive fiction games"

Screenwriting Blogs

Alligators in a Helicopter
The Artful Writer -- Craig Mazin
By Ken Levine
Complications Ensue
The Daily Pitch
Dead Things on Sticks
DISContent -- Bill Cunningham
Fun Joel
I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing
Jane Espenson
John August
Kung Fu Monkey
Living the Romantic Comedy -- Billy Mernit
Mad Screenwriter/Chaos Theory
Man Bytes Hollywood
Screenwriter Bones
See Max Run
Shouting Into the Wind
Things They Won't Tell You in Film School
The Thinking Writer
A Writer's Life

Screenwriting/Playwriting Magazines and other "Trades"

Creative Screenwriting
Fade In:
Filmmaker Magazine
The Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Scriptwriter Magazine
The Independent: Film and Video Monthly
Inside Film
Moviemaker Magazine
Screen Magazine (Chicago)
Screentalk
Scr(i)pt
The Script Journal @ Script Shark
Scriptwriter Magazine (UK)
Variety
Written By: The Magazine of the Writers Guild of America, West

Scripts

Drew's Scripts-O-Rama -- THE best source for filmscripts on the web
Daily Scripts
Simply Scripts
Internet Movie Script Database
INFlow's Screenplay Repository (featuring major directors)
Script samples -- Jeffrey Hause & David Hines

Professional Organizations

The Business of Scriptwriting--The Industry of Film and Theater

The E-Script Go-Fer: News for Scriptwriters
The Writer's Store -- for all of your software needs
Done Deal -- "The Latest News On Script & Pitch Sales in Hollywood" (and excellent general links)
Box Office Guru -- great stats and economic info

Screenplay and Stage Play: Contests/Fellowships

ABC/Walt Disney Writing Fellowship Program
Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting
National Screenplay Showdown
Hollywood Screenplay Awards
Moviebytes.com
Screenwriting contest links -- Inside Film Online

Miscellaneous Film/Theater Links Useful for Writers

The Internet Movie Database -- aka, The IMDB
The IMDB Film Glossary -- excellent list of terms and definitions from the film business
A Glossary of Film (Production) Terms -- Joel Schlemowitz, The New School
Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang -- William Denton
Plot-O-Matic (when the ideas are coming slowly)
How Are Hollywood Films Made? -- Annenberg/CPB
Film Festival List (By Month) -- Inside Film Online