Conquering Contest Season
There are a lot of different screenwriting contests out there for feature films, shorts, and television all designed to help launch the careers of writers. Contests can be a great way to get noticed and writers who have entered contests have had their screenplays optioned, sold, and have secured high-profile representation.
This carefully curated bundle will help you craft a map to help elevate your script, heighten its potential for placing in competitions, and capitalize on your wins. With 11 digital products helping you get your script contest ready, strategies for winning, making your first pages shine, writing for the reader, and creating a marketing plan you'll have everything you need to help conquer your next contest entry.
BONUS ITEM: Click here to view Screenwriting Contests Calendar Dates and Prizes!
This OnDemand webinar with Cody Smart, aims to help screenwriters focus on one of the best ways to break in: contests. In just 3 hours we discuss how to write a script that places in competitions, what judges are looking for, how to write a killer opening, what mistakes to avoid, which competitions to enter, and how to use competition wins to propel your writing career. ($49.99 value)
This OnDemand webinar offers resources for your writing toolbox to aid the journey and improve your platform. C. Hope Clark introduces you to the concept of multi-tasking to achieve your goal—using contests, freelance markets, and even grants (the most misunderstood funding opportunity)—to help you fund your writing career. ($79.00 value)
Since 1982, scribes have looked to The Writers Store as trustworthy experts on all matters related to screenwriting. This handy little guide serves as the culmination of our knowledge after the years in the Industry. In it you’ll find 120 tips on plot, structure, character and mythology that give you a constant point of reference while you write. ($9.95 value)
New screenwriters believe that they need an agent or manager to break in, but most representatives want you to launch your career before they represent you. In this OnDemand webinar, professional screenwriter and playwright Lynn Grant Beck shares advice for breaking into Hollywood and theater without an agent or manager. ($39.99 value)
This OnDemand webinar discusses the different strategies to market your script, and yourself as a writer. Instructor Cody Smart covers all the basics, such as loglines, query letters, and how to write a selling synopsis. She also delves into how competitions can help jump-start your career & how to make sure your script is contest ready, how to develop an elevator pitch, and on- and offline networking skills. ($49.99 value)
Do you have to live in Hollywood to chase the Hollywood dream? Not necessarily. This panel of industry professionals, moderated by Sadie Dean, Editor-in-chief of Script Magazine, will share industry tips on navigating the business from the outside, the essentials to successfully networking, finding representation, and more. ($39.99 value)
Your scripts face many barriers before they get in the hands of a person who can green light it. This OnDemand webinar will help you gain insight on what will get a script read and then championed from the inside. Learn how your script is more than just a blueprint for a film to get made—it also functions as a sales tool! ($39.99 value)
Selling Your Screenplay to Hollywood (OnDemand Webinar):
In this OnDemand webinar, Steve Longi takes you step-by-step through the process of marketing your screenplay to Hollywood. He outlines the steps starting with: what to write, getting the attention of producers and executives, crafting an effective logline and how to follow up and establish relationships in the industry that you can use to set-up future projects. ($49.99 value)
The logline is the most important element of your entire project. In this OnDemand webinar, veteran showrunner and writer of the best-selling Writing the Pilot books, William Rabkin, discusses how to craft the logline that will define your story, characters, goals, and themes—and keep your writing on track from beginning to end. ($39.99 value)
Mindset Strategies for Surviving a Rewrite (OnDemand Webinar):
Tackling a rewrite can be intimidating; overwhelm, fear, doubt, and resistance can stop you from starting or even knowing where to start. Thankfully, there are some simple mindset strategies you can lean on to help yourself make the process just that much easier and take your rewrite all the way through to done. ($39.99 value
The one thing producers are looking for, when they read a script by a new writer, is a unique voice that no one else can deliver. In this groundbreaking OnDemand webinar with Award Winning Screenwriter Jacob Krueger, you’ll learn to get your unique voice onto the page, and shape it in a way that producers will love, readers will rave about, and you will be proud of! ($39.99 value)
OFFER ENDS April 30, 2024!
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