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5 Pieces of Screenwriting Advice from Marvel Screenwriter Zak Penn

What screenwriting advice can Marvel Cinematic Universe screenwriter Zak Penn (The Incredible Hulk, The Avengers) offer beginning screenwriters? Here we turn to the Viceland video Screenwriting Advice from Zak Penn: VICE GUIDE TO FILM where Penn offers some excellent…

Michael VanjuMarch 11, 2020

Contests

Announcing the 2019 WeScreenplay Feature Contest Finalists

Thank you to all of the incredible writers who entered the WeScreenplay Feature Competition this year! Your hard work, talent, and dedication to storytelling shines through in the entries we received. From nearly 1,000 entries, we are thrilled to advance…

wescreenplayMarch 4, 2020

Contests

Announcing the 2019 WeScreenplay Feature Contest Semifinalists

Thank you to all of the incredible writers who entered the WeScreenplay Feature Competition 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…

wescreenplayFebruary 12, 2020

Screenwriting

The Two Most Important Elements in a TV Show

There are an almost unbelievable number of things that go into developing a television pilot — everything from the premise of the story to the structure of the script, the transitions between scenes, the dialogue characters say, sluglines, descriptions, act…

Britton PerelmanFebruary 6, 2020

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The Marketing Blueprint

The marketing blueprint is a 1-2 page section in additional to your feedback on your project that is custom tailored to help you achieve your goal for writing the script. The goal of the blueprint is to shine a light…

wescreenplayJanuary 30, 2020

Coverage

An Update to Our Feedback Options

Since we launched in 2014, WeScreenplay has provided the industry’s best quality, fastest, and most affordable notes on screenplays. We offer pages of detailed notes on your work in just 72 hours, and we do it at a price that…

wescreenplayJanuary 30, 2020

Coverage Screenwriting

How to Hook Your Audience from Page One

I personally think there are a plethora of amazing movies and TV shows out there. Yes, I said plethora and yes, I know what it means to have a plethora. *That’s a ¡Three Amigos! reference, and if you haven’t seen…

Justin Trevor WintersJanuary 28, 2020

Contests Diverse Voices

Announcing the Fall 2019 Diverse Voices Winners

Diverse Voices is a screenplay contest and lab that strives to encourage stories that are told from perspectives that are often underrepresented in Hollywood today. This includes writers of color, women writers, writers with disabilities, writers over 40, writers in…

wescreenplayJanuary 24, 2020

Coverage Screenwriting

How to Capture a Script Reader’s Attention with Minimal Dialogue

We open on a burning spaceship thundering through the atmosphere of a planet far, far away. The steel asteroid crashes into the ocean and amid the wreckage our luckless hero emerges, bobbing up for air. He washes ashore and observes…

Kevin NelsonJanuary 16, 2020

Contests

Announcing the 2019 WeScreenplay Feature Contest Quarterfinalists

Thank you to all of the incredible writers who entered the WeScreenplay Feature Competition 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…

wescreenplayJanuary 15, 2020