Great screenwriting videos from those who know (Screenwriters Beat)

Salaries, Taking Producer Notes, Pitching, Screenwriting Skills, Query Letters, Film Festivals, Screenwriting and Social Media, Dialogue Tips, Going Pro, Advanced Outlines, and so much more – check them out!

• Episode 1: How the panelists got their first screenwriting job
• Episode 2: Average salaries for screenwriters
• Episode 3: Taking Producer Notes
• Episode 4: Unofficial screenwriting rules
• Episode 5: Writing Partners
• Episode 6: Writing to Budget
• Episode 7: Genre Writing
• Episode 8: Ins and Outs of Contracts
• Episode 9: Branding
• Episode 10: Genre Pitfalls
• Episode 11: Part 1: Pump up Your Writing Career
• Episode 11 Part 2: Pump up Your Writing Career
• Episode 12: Ins and Outs of Rewrites
• Episode 13: Screenwriting Superstitions
• Episode 14: Screenwriting Contest Strategies
• Episode 15: How to Get Work
• Episode 16: Feedback vs. Coverage
• Episode 17: How Industry Pros Talk to Writers
• Episode 18: Obligatory Scenes
• Episode 19: Finding Mr. Right (Producer)
• Episode 20: Season Finale
• Episode 21: Advancing your Career (and catch up with the panel)
• Episode 22: Script Time Limit for Pitching
• Episode 23: Networking
• Episode 24: Union vs Non-Union
• Episode 25: Mastering Screenwriting
• Episode 26: IMDb Must or Myth?
• Episode 27: Crowdfunding
• Episode 28: Inner Critic
• Episode 29: Spec Farms
• Episode 30: Outlines!
• Episode 31: Loglines
• Episode 32: Writing Time
• Episode 33: Women Screenwriters
• Episode 34: Great Titles
• Episode 35: Pitching
• Episode 36: $1 Option
• Episode 37: First Screenwriting Job Lesson
• Episode 38: Screenwriting Skills
• Episode 39: Q&A: Screenwriting & Social Media 
• Episode 40: Screenplays into Novels/Comics
• Episode 41: Film Festivals for Screenwriters
• Episode 42: Query Letters
• Episode 43: Screenwriting Q&A
• Episode 44: Dialogue Tips
• Episode 45: Advanced Outlines 
• Episode 46: Negotiating for Screenwriters
• Episode 47: Going Pro
• Episode 48: Key to Collaboration
• Episode 49: Write a Better Script
• Episode 50: Screenwriting Gold
• Episode 51: Screenwriting Rejection

New Screenwriter?

If you are new to screenwriting, you’ve probably been spending time trying to figure out how to get started.  Have you written a script?  Wonder how to market it?  Start with the resources listed on this site.

Not sure how to format your script?  What structure is required?  Check out the Script Structure links on this site.  Also, check out the books on screenwriting and formatting.  Wondering what screenwriting software to use?  Check out the Software listing.

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Great screenwriting videos from Screenwriters Beat

• Episode 1: How the panelists got their first screenwriting job
• Episode 2: Average salaries for screenwriters
• Episode 3: Taking Producer Notes
• Episode 4: Unofficial screenwriting rules
• Episode 5: Writing Partners
• Episode 6: Writing to Budget
• Episode 7: Genre Writing
• Episode 8: Ins and Outs of Contracts
• Episode 9: Branding
• Episode 10: Genre Pitfalls
• Episode 11: Part 1: Pump up Your Writing Career
• Episode 11 Part 2: Pump up Your Writing Career
• Episode 12: Ins and Outs of Rewrites
• Episode 13: Screenwriting Superstitions
• Episode 14: Screenwriting Contest Strategies
• Episode 15: How to Get Work
• Episode 16: Feedback vs. Coverage
• Episode 17: How Industry Pros Talk to Writers
• Episode 18: Obligatory Scenes
• Episode 19: Finding Mr. Right (Producer)
• Episode 20: Season Finale
• Episode 21: Advancing your Career (and catch up with the panel)
• Episode 22: Script Time Limit for Pitching
• Episode 23: Networking
• Episode 24: Union vs Non-Union
• Episode 25: Mastering Screenwriting
• Episode 26: Must or Myth?

Added New Coverage Service

Just added an additional script coverage service: Monument Script Coverage: http://monumentscripts.com/service/screenplay-coverage/

Looking for other screenwriting resources?  Go to: https://infoforwriters.wordpress.com/

Added new resource to Mentoring and Retreats for Screenwriters

International Screenwriters’ Association Founder: Craig James

PAGECRAFT MALIBU RETREAT AND SUMMER SEMINAR IN ITALY

You can learn writing skills from any number of seminars, webinars, books, etc. PageCraft gives you the time and support to deepen your skills and put them to work. Start the new year by nailing the story, characters and framework for your next script with their Break Your Story structure weekend retreat in Malibu (Jan 30 – Feb 1). Sign-up deadline Jan 15.

And when you are ready to put your writing front and center, join PageCraft this summer in Italy for a two-week script workshop in a charming hill town or a one-week writers’ residency in a country villa.

Details on both at http://www.PageCraftWriting.com

NEW HOPE FILM FESTIVAL DEADLINE APPROACHING

The New Hope Film Festival Script Competition’s final deadline is January 30th. Potential to get discovered by a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures!

• High film and TV industry exposure
• Tied to prestigious film festival
• Run by artists for artists

Enter now at http://www.NewHopeFilmFestival.com

ISA LAUNCHES “FAST TRACK” MENTORING PROGRAM

The goal of ISA FAST TRACK is to discover two emerging screenwriters and “Fast Track” their development by offering career-accelerating meetings with FIVE industry mentors! We will fly two writers to Los Angeles for five days in April 2015 to be MENTORED by a:

• Top Script Consultant
• President of Production
• Top Literary Agent
• Development Executive
• Film Management & Production Coordinator

http://www.networkisa.org/fasttrack/

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