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Screenwriter Gift Guide: The Best Gifts for Every Budget

This holiday season will be unlike any other with COVID-19 still keeping us apart from family members who live far away and everyone tightening their belts and keeping a closer eye on the budget. Whether you’re looking for ideas for…

Julia CamaraNovember 24, 2020

Screenwriting Scripts

How to Use Your Personal Experience to Write a Screenplay

“Write what you know” is the advice that most writers receive, but few actually know what to do with it. Writing from personal experience is a tricky beast, as personal experience often comes attached to personal bias, and a deep…

Joshua NobleNovember 19, 2020

Screenwriting

5 Lessons Screenwriters Can Learn from NaNoWriMo

National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is a time for amateur and professional writers around the world to set a goal for the month. Namely, to write an entire novel from start to finish. It's an ambitious goal, but that's the…

Beverly PedersNovember 17, 2020

Contests

Spring 2021 Diverse Voices Semifinalists

Thank you to all of the incredible writers who entered Diverse Voices this year! Your hard work, talent, and dedication to storytelling shines through in the entries we received. As you probably know — WeScreenplay believes that the best way…

wescreenplayNovember 15, 2020

Contests

2020 WeScreenplay TV Contest Semifinalists

Thank you to all of the incredible writers who entered WeScreenplay TV Contest this year! Your hard work, talent, and dedication to storytelling shines through in the entries we received. As you probably know — WeScreenplay believes that the best…

wescreenplayNovember 15, 2020

Contests

2020 WeScreenplay Shorts Contest Winners

Thank you to all of the incredible writers who entered WeScreenplay Shorts Contest this year! Your hard work, talent, and dedication to storytelling shines through in the entries we received. All of the scripts were so compelling, and choosing the…

wescreenplayNovember 15, 2020

Filmmaking Screenwriting

Screenwriting Advice from Lynn Chen: How to Know When Your Script is Ready

Lynn Chen wrote, directed, and starred in the feature film I WILL MAKE YOU MINE, which had its world premiere in competition at the 2020 SXSW Film Festival. Her three-decade career includes credits in over 50 television shows (SHAMELESS, SILICON VALLEY),…

Julia CamaraNovember 13, 2020

screenwriting competitions and diversity

Diverse Voices Industry News Screenwriting

How Screenwriting Competitions are Making Hollywood More Diverse

Screenwriting contests have been a fixture of the entertainment industry for decades. Photoplay Magazine invited contest submissions as a form of interactive fandom as far back as the 1920s. Later during the 1950s, Samuel Goldwinn Jr. gave a platform to…

Joshua NobleNovember 10, 2020

Filmmaking Screenwriting

6 Screenwriting Lessons from Spike Lee

Spike Lee is a powerhouse screenwriter and director. In his almost 40 year career in film, Lee has made iconic and groundbreaking films from his directorial debut, She’s Gotta Have It to Da 5 Bloods. In 2019 Lee’s film BlacKkKlansman…

Julia CamaraNovember 5, 2020

Filmmaking Screenwriting

Killer Career Advice from Screenwriter & Director Ava DuVernay

In the past few years, writer, director, and producer Ava DuVernay has created powerful works of art including Selma, When They See Us, A Wrinkle in Time, 13th, and Queen Sugar. She’s a champion for women and people of color,…

Shannon CorbeilNovember 3, 2020

Screenwriter Gift Guide: The Best Gifts for Every Budget

How to Use Your Personal Experience to Write a Screenplay

5 Lessons Screenwriters Can Learn from NaNoWriMo

Spring 2021 Diverse Voices Semifinalists

2020 WeScreenplay TV Contest Semifinalists

2020 WeScreenplay Shorts Contest Winners

Screenwriting Advice from Lynn Chen: How to Know When Your Script is Ready

How Screenwriting Competitions are Making Hollywood More Diverse

6 Screenwriting Lessons from Spike Lee

Killer Career Advice from Screenwriter & Director Ava DuVernay

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