screenwriting

Screen/Play Writing: Web Resources

Jefferson Hendricks
Centenary College of Louisiana

General Sites and Links Pages for Screen/Play Writing and Writing in General

Done Deal's Links Page
Wordplay (Terry Rossio & Ted Elliott)
Breaking Into Screenwriting
Writing for Film (Rich Wilson)
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.)
Screenwriter's Resource Center
Screenwriters Utopia (Christopher Wehner)
Screenwriters Online
Writing on Spec
Hollywood Film Festival -- Screenwriting Links
Play/Screenwriting Page @ Absolute Write
SCRNWRIT Home Page (Jack Stanley)
Screenwriting Links -- Internet Resources.com
Skotos.net -- "an online storytelling community centered around multiplayer text-dominant interactive fiction games"
The 101 Best Web Sites for Writers
John Hewitt's Writer's Resource Center

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

Analyzing Screenplays/Film Reviews

The Megahit Movies (Richard Michaels)--from characters to scenes to plots and beyond
Bill Johnson's "Essays on the Craft of Dramatic Writing" (including film analyses)
Movie Review Query Engine (Stewart Clamen)--The best place to find film reviews
Roger Ebert's Film Reviews @ Chicago Sun-Times
New York Times Film Reviews--Current and Archives

Screenplay Contests/Fellowships

Screenwriting Magazines and other "Trades"

Scripts

Drew's Scripts-O-Rama--THE best source for filmscripts on the web
Screen Talk Movie Script Gallery--(you need Adobe Acrobat, but everything is properly formatted)
Scripts on the Net (Rosebud)
INFlow's Screenplay Repository (featuring major directors)
Script samples--Jeffrey Hause & David Hines (two aspiring screenwriters)

Professional Organizations

The Business of Scriptwriting--The Industry of Film

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
The Motion Picture Association of America -- the movies as BIG BUSINESS
Scriptwriter's Network

Miscellaneous Film Links Useful for Screenwriters

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 2 (when the ideas are coming slowly)
How Are Hollywood Films Made? (Annenberg/CPB)
Film Festival List (By Month) -- Inside Film Online

Last update: October 11, 2004