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Script Coverage and Fix It Services


ScriptwriterCentral offers screenplay analysis, script doctoring, and script coverage by top Hollywood pros and studio readers to polish your script.  Mention the ScreenplayWritersConnection for 5% off.

Script-Fix provides screenplay coverage and story development notes to improve your script.  And if you mention the ScreenplayWritersConnection, they will give you 10% off.

 

Scriptwriting Books and Writing Guides

How to Write Scripts offers a book on how to write a bankable screenplay: HOLLYWOOD SCRIPT WRITING, and SCRIPT WIZARD software for writing and formatting your script.

 

Script Viewing and Connection Sites

 

 

Ink Tip is a place to list your script on  line for viewing by those in the industry.  Plus they have an e-mail newsletter with tips and a magazine with loglines that goes to industry contacts every few months.

 

Move Jigsaw is a UK-based site that helps screenwriters and those with ideas connect with others in the industry to work as part of production team. 

Screenwriter Showcase
A new website designed to link screenwriters and industry professionals.  You can list loglines for free in their Scripts for Sale section and learn about their screenwriting contest and screenwriting tips at their site.


Simply scripts is a place to find hundreds of movie scripts, television teleplays, radio transcripts from the golden age of radio, anime scripts, and plays.


Screenwriter Communities

These sites include information on programs, contests, and resources of interest to screenwriters, plus have an active bulletin board where writers can post messages.

 MovieBytes

 

 


 

Protecting Your Script
and Industry Information

For the most protection, register your script at the U.S. Copyright Office.  You can also register it through the WGA and find information on agents, industry payment standards, and other useful information at their site.  You can  join with the necessary production credits.

US Copyright Office
Get copyright forms and information on filing your copyright here.

Writers Guild of America
This site includes a list of current WGA agents, plus information on WGA membership.   Some agents, production companies, and producers will want you to have a WGA registration, too (even if you have a copyright). Check here for details on how to register your script.  

Writers Guild of Canada
If you're in Canada, here's details on the WGC.

Writers Guild of UK

If you're in the UK, contact the WGUK.

 

Consulting on Screenwriting and Becoming a Consultant

The Write System offers a free audio class on techniques for expanding your screenwriting career.

 
This helps you learn how to make a high income as a script consultant, even if you aren't a screenwriter.
 

Magazines

Fade-In Magazine
New York Screenwriter Magazine
Scr(I)pt Magazine
The Hollywood Reporter
Variety

 

Studios

20th Century Fox
Castlerock
Disney
Miramax
Universal Studios

 

Other Useful Sites

Assistant Directors
Cinemarquee
Dave Trottier
Academy of Motion Arts & Sciences
Drews Script-O-Rama
Hollywood Lit Sales
Hollywood Stock Exchange
How To Write Scripts
IMDB
Inside Films Online
Literary & Screenplay Consultants
Mark's Screenwriting Page
Rotten Tomatoes
Screenplayers
Screenwriters Market
Screenwriters Resource Center
Screenwriters Utopia
Scriptfly
Scriptiverse
Scriptsecrets
Scriptservices
Simply Scripts
The Story Coach
The Source
Syd Field
Upcoming Movies
Wordplay
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