r/Screenwriting

Every writing server I join follows the same cycle. Active for a week, people introduce themselves, little burst of energy, then silence Or it becomes everyone waiting in line to get pages read and nobody actually talking.

I don't need feedback rn I just want somewhere people chat about writing like you would with a friend,Just a room where people get it.

Screenwriting is isolating enough already. Reddit is great for advice but it's not the same as an actual ongoing conversation with people in the same place as you.

If you're in a server that's actually alive and intimate, I'd genuinely love to know

I have three satellite studios who read everything I've sent them and always ask to send something else when I've written it. These companies are as large as let's say Neon or A24 (but neither of them).
So I have these outfits always prepared to read me but as yet nothing has landed with them. I don't think they're just humouring me or they'd say don't bother sending anything.
Is there a way I can leverage this somehow to my favour aside from just keep trying with them?

I am currently unrepped but I do have a manager circling...

Any thoughts?

I found a few posts on here when I was trying to check if were legit and opinions were mixed so thought I would let the community know my experience so no one else has to endure the mess I'm stuck in.

Made an account on WScripted to sign up for their Cannes List contest. You had to sign up to a paid account to do so, but there was a code to get that part for free, and there was no charge. All good. As it was early entry, they also had a promo code for an early entry fee. For some reason, it didn't stick so I ended up paying full price, so reached out in all good faith to see if they would refund the difference, given that I was well within the early window. I got a couple of stock answers that were very clearly from an AI chatbot (even referencing the wrong contest to what I'd applied for) and pushed back to talk to a human. They said someone would follow up shortly and gave me an AirTable link to provide details of what I needed help with. This was Feb 3. Given the frustrations I was having, I deactivated my paid subscription at that time (that I'd gotten first month free for) and changed it to a free account.

A month later, my card is charged for the paid subscription. I went back to check my account. All the account billing is on a Stripe-powered page where it clearly stated that I was on a free subscription, $0.00 monthly. The invoices section also said $0.00. But I'd been charged $10.00. I emailed them again and charged back the card immediately, knowing I was unlikely to get a response from them (I never did, btw). To be double sure that this couldn't happen again the next month, I deleted my payment information from the account page.

Now, Apr 3. MY CARD IS CHARGED AGAIN, $10.00. Even though I literally took my payment information off their system. I have emailed them again, charged it back again. I'm like, okay, screw it: I was going to keep my (free) account until the contest results but, at this point, I don't even care. I hit the Delete Account button. It brings a pop-up asking if I'm sure. I press Confirm. It returns to the main page. And. Nothing. Happens. I can't even delete my account.

At this point, I'm not sure what I can do besides cancelling my credit card to stop them charging me. More fool me for thinking there must be some legitimacy attached when they have MUBI as a partner/sponsor, I guess.

Anyway, this isn't a pity-me story, I just wanted to flag so that hopefully no one else gets stuck in the same situation because it's not a whole lotta fun 🫠

Hello!

Last year I made season 1 of a funny webseries with my friends, writing the entire thing myself.

Got some interested parties in joining the writers room for S2. I've come up with a season arc and we've assigned writers to each episode to start tackling treatments and outlines. About 10 of us all together! Aiming for each of us to tackle one episode, and then we all do punchups and passes until the scripts are final.

It's a lot of story and character information to keep straight. We're all self-taught with backgrounds in sketch comedy, so this project is a bit more ambitious than we're used to. But it's fun and we like a good challenge!

I'm basically looking for tips on how to outline a multi-episode season of a webseries from anyone who's done a similar project. We've got a shared google drive and everyone knows how to write scripts, we just want a workflow that helps us keep everything consistent.

Appreciate any pointers. Thanks!

"How am I to fix the world, fix me, when I don't have my voice?"

We hunt down the screenwriting secrets of Netflix's Oscar-winning animated smash KPOP DEMON HUNTERS to find out what makes this genre-bending musical hit all the right notes and what screenwriters can learn from it.

LISTEN HERE: https://pod.link/1650931217/

Screenwriting Topics on this Episode: 

• Animation Writing 

• Catalysts 

• Wrong Way Goals 

• Musical Writing Techniques 

• Nightmare Fuel 

• And Much More!

Available wherever you get your podcasts!

What screenwriting techniques did you learn from the movie?

Hey everyone. I’ve been working on a short film set in a hospital waiting room. It follows two strangers waiting on loved ones after the same accident, as their conversation drifts into questions of guilt, chance, and meaning.

Title: Waiting Room

Format: Short Film

Page Length: 15 Pages

Genre: Existential Drama

Logline: When a random accident throws two strangers together in a hospital waiting room, their desperate search for meaning becomes the only thing keeping them sane.

Feedback Concerns:

• Does the dialogue feel real or does it feel written?
• Does the ending earn itself or does it feel too neat?
• Does the visual world of the film come through on the page.

Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Fned6jKrSJplzslleeyj6icUp4x-cCpv/view?usp=sharing

Happy to return feedback on your work.

I’m currently rewriting an action thriller I’ve been working on. I have a scene where the protagonist and antagonist meet and talk. Something similar to the scene in Heat where De Niro and Pacino talk in that diner.

I originally had the my characters meeting in a small restaurant. My literary manager almost bit my head off for setting the scene in a restaurant, saying it was the most cliche idea ever. Looking for some suggestions on a different setting.

Here’s the catch, I have it so their conversation is interrupted by two armed men busting in to rob the place. The antagonist knew this was gonna happen and uses the distraction to make his escape.

Any ideas from anyone are appreciated. I need to keep the conversation and distraction for the escape.

Thanks.

With today being Good Friday should I hold off until next week?

I have a story in mind that has a main antagonist, which is more like a force of nature that will be faced at the end, and another enemy that provokes the inciting incident and will be the enemy for most of the second act, maybe even into part of the third, I'm still not sure about that. But anyway, it should be defeated before the real ending, the final.battle with the biggest threat. Won't this break the rythm? Maybe I should make the main threat grow to keep the stakes and the attention high? I'm worried that if the antagonist that we spent most of the time with is defeated, and there is still a whole act, it will cause a loss of interest

Hi i am working on a Indian based anime web series I have a story but I am looking for someone for storywriting , scripting, dialogues and all mainly screenplay

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This was a spec he wrote back in 2012. Just trying to see if anyone might have a copy.

If the characters have left a location but I want to go back to that location a few minutes later just for one shot showing something in that location, would I need to add a whole new slugline?

Curious what you all think of screenwriting labs that are not Sundance and Film Independent.

I’ve noticed there’s been several new ones that have popped up over the past decade - The Black List Projects Lab, Cine Qua Non, Hamptons International, Athena Film Festival, etc. Some of them have a fee if accepted, others don’t.

I’m wondering if I should have the mentality that just participating in any lab can be helpful or if I should have the same outlook as screenwriting competitions.

Again, I’m not asking about Sundance (which is clearly the godmother of indie filmmakers) or Film Independent even.

I logged into Celtx the other day looking for a project I had worked on for school years ago, and found a couple of pages I have no remembrance of writing.

I know I wrote it cus it's very much something I would write but for the life of me I cannot remember where I wanted to go with it or what the over all premise was.

There's just enough that I knew I had an idea was wanted to mess with (some sort of Demolition man/Running Man hybrid from the looks of it?) but beyond that it's all blank.

I figured I'd post it here cus I have no idea if it's any good and I'd love to hear some thoughts outside of my apparent amnesia.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bQBexkVm_CLKyULuPxx2pF9lQ-G2PfZi/view?usp=sharing

The Dead Center

TV Pilot

28 pages

Half-hour Mockumentary Comedy

Logline: A man between jobs, between marriages, and between ideas finds himself running a task force to save a Tasmanian institution - which would be easier if his team agreed on literally anything.

My first attempt at a mockumentary style script.

Trying to push myself out of my comfort zone and share work. Looking for any kind of feedback.

Link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11JvvrlPC7l3qOwLr0J-YUcHXd97RrVmy/view?usp=drivesdk