Selling Your Screenplay Premium Collection
Congratulations, you did it! You wrote a screenplay. You've poured your heart and soul into it, did rewrite after rewrite, and it is ready! But now what? How do you get it into the right hands? What are the next steps? The next steps are crucial ones in getting your script made into a movie or TV show.
The Writers Store has carefully curated a bundle of 10 products with everything you need to know to get your screenplay sold! These digital downloads will help you understand contracts, craft a longline, build a look book, representation, and more!
Selling Your Screenplay to Hollywood (OnDemand Webinar)
In this webinar, Steve Longi will take you through the process of evaluating and then marketing your screenplay to Hollywood. This presentation outlines the steps, starting with how to decide what to write, getting the attention of producers and executives, crafting an effective log-line, and how to establish relationships in the industry that you can use to set-up future projects. ($39.99 value)
Pitch Deck Writing: Step-by-Step Guide to Writing an Engaging Pitch Deck to Help You Sell Your Script (OnDemand Webinar)
Do you have a great script, but no idea how to fully develop an engaging Pitch Deck that can help you sell it? In this OnDemand webinar, Script Doctor Cody Smart discusses the importance of this industry document when it comes time to pitch your script, and what you need to include in each section of it. ($39.99 value)
The Essential Elements that Make a Screenplay Sell (OnDemand Webinar)
In this OnDemand webinar, Susan Kouguell offers specific strategies for strengthening each element of your script, from genre to dialogue, character and plot development, action paragraphs and visual storytelling, scene pacing, and solid structure. Advice will also cover understanding both the film executives' and audience’s expectations without compromising your creativity and vision. ($39.99 value)
SHOWSTOPPER: Writing the Scene That Helps Sell Your Script (OnDemand Webinar)
Writing the showstopper scene is essential to pitching and selling a script in today's Hollywood. But writing a great showstopper can be more difficult than it first appears. This OnDemand webinar illustrates the process of rolling your characters, plot, dialogue, and action into one glorious, undeniable showstopper to get your work stuck in the heads of Hollywood buyers. ($39.99 value)
Marketing Your Screenplay (OnDemand Webinar)
This OnDemand webinar discusses 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 and how to make sure your script is contest ready, how to develop an elevator pitch, and on- and offline networking skills. ($49.99 value)
Spec Market 101: How to Sell Your Script (OnDemand Webinar)
The spec screenplay market is constantly evolving. As a screenwriter, it pays to be aware of how the sale process works, who the most active buyers are, and what types of projects are selling today. In a few case studies, this OnDemand Webinar provides an overview of how spec sales happen, who the top-selling managers and agents are, and who's buying up all the material. ($39.99 value)
Legal 411: How to Secure Literary Representation and Shop Your Screenplay Until You Do (Audio Recording)
There is a right and wrong way to pitch a script and shop your screenplay, be it to agents, managers or producers. Avoid the pitfalls that will expose you to idea theft, close doors before they are even open, and lock you into ineffective representation for a period of years. Work smart and know the dos and don’ts of pitching, selling your screenplay, and finding an agent. ($9.99 value)
How to Sell Your Screenplays and Produce Your Plays Without Management (OnDemand Webinar)
There are more resources than ever for aspiring screenwriters and playwrights to sell their scripts, have their plays optioned, and even produce their own work. In this OnDemand webinar, professional screenwriter and playwright Lynn Grant Beck shares “the tricks of the trade” for breaking into Hollywood and the live theater industry without an agent or manager. ($39.99 value)
Screenwriter Contracts Decoded (OnDemand Webinar)
It can be intimidating to read through a contract without any idea what it means or what you are agreeing to. This webinar will provide an overview of common language and terms found in screenwriting contracts. You will also get an overview of the different types of contracts a screenwriter is likely to come across. When the time comes to sign a contract make sure you are prepared to sign confidently. ($39.99 value)
Writing High Concept Screenplays That Sell (OnDemand Webinar)
In this OnDemand webinar, you will learn exactly what selling screenplays are and aren’t. You’ll also learn what the studio expects from your script if they are going to invest capital in it. Executing these movies takes craft, savvy, and know-how. Know the essentials for creating a high concept script from the start. Be on your way to writing a sellable script and, hopefully, a profitable sale! ($39.99 value)
Decoding Story: Elevate Your Writing Using Script Coverage Techniques (OnDemand Webinar)
Many writers think they know their story, only to realize they lack the perspective to translate the rich, deep and visually engaging cinematic journey they imagined into words. This OnDemand webinar demystifies the principles that professional script readers use to evaluate the inner mechanics of story, character, plot, and visual motif in scripts they cover. ($39.99 value)
The One Sentence That Can Make Your Script or Kill It (OnDemand Webinar)
Done correctly, the logline is a tool that can save you months of work and hundreds of pages of wasted effort. 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)
You Got in the Door, Now Don't Blow It (Audio Recording)
In this recorded panel, learn industry tips to make sure you keep and cultivate your relationships in Hollywood. Instead of blowing your shot at the movie business, learn from the painful mistakes of established screenwriters who’ve already made it in the industry. They’ll discuss how to make and cultivate contacts that will move your career forward, what the barriers of entry are and how to avoid them, and how to make sure you’re memorable (in a good way). ($9.99 value)
Query Letter to Pitch to Treatment: Selling Your Script in Person and Online (OnDemand Webinar)
In this OnDemand webinar, learn the basics of query letters, pitches, and treatments from a screenwriter who has extensively experienced – and continues to go through – the script selling process. Mitch covers tips and facts on how to hone each presentation to its most dynamic and effective form, via anecdotal experiences, sample query letters, pitches and treatments. ($39.99 value)
Marketing as a Filmmaker: How & Why To Build Your Personal Brand (OnDemand Webinar)
All creative professionals working in the film and video world today face the million dollar question of “Who are you?” and the often silent question that follows shortly after inside the mind of the asker: “And why should I care?” In this OnDemand webinar, Kathy Berardi teaches a process that addresses both what your audience needs to know, as well as what only you can provide.($39.99 value)