What does it take to win a screenwriting contest? WriteMovies Director Ian Kennedy interviews Vanisha Renée Pierce about her successes in our contests and what helped her scripts to stand out in them.
WriteMovies Director Ian Kennedy writes: Why Bollywood should take ITSELF more seriously! The career of Salman Khan and the Bollywood tropes that hold the Indian film industry back…
Worldbuilding is a key component of genre fiction, and with the new WriteMovies Sci-Fi and Fantasy Award now open, a lot of you will now be hard at work creating new worlds! But how do you do it successfully? Here are what we see as the first principles of great worldbuilding.
If you want to make it as a screenwriter, it’s important that you keep on writing, even when things get tough. But if you need a hand with your scripts, don’t forget: our Introduction to Professional Screenwriting course continues on Thursday February 25th with a session on Development and Outlining!
If you haven’t entered our Romance and Comedy Award yet, you’d better move fast. There’s just one week until the deadline, which is coming up fast on January 17th!
Do you want to learn more about the craft of screenwriting? WriteMovies is proud to present our Online Introduction to Professional Screenwriting Course, which will enhance your skills and take you through the entire screenwriting process from start to finish!
WriteMovies is delivering this course in partnership with Screenwriters Forum, and it will be run via Zoom over a period of 6 months. Sessions will take place on the last Thursday of each month, with the first coming up soon on January 28th!
Available internationally, no matter what corner of the world you’re from, you can book the whole course for $150 or pick and choose the workshops you’re most interested in for $30 each. The course covers all aspects of screenwriting and each month is dedicated to a different stage of writing a script. We start with developing concepts, and take you through to pitching your work and developing your career as a writer.
Attendees of similar courses by Screenwriters Forum in past years have rated them at over 90%, reporting an average increase in confidence of 20% on each subject. Here’s some of their feedback:
“Very well delivered and easy to relate back.”
“Really found this session hugely useful to draw thoughts together and starting seeing how script might hang together in a way easy for others to understand.”
“Great exercises really brought this to life.”
“Given me some very good ideas to work with.”
Learn the craft from start to finish. Click HERE to find out more and sign up today!
Happy New Year from all the team at WriteMovies! Last year was difficult in a lot of ways, but we’re proud to continue supporting writers – and today, we look back at our winners from 2020 to celebrate their successes. Here’s the WriteMovies Wall of Fame 2020!
All of our winners received script development and pitching to industry from us, with a cash prize for our Grand Prize Winners too! Here’s a reminder of the scripts that took the top spot this year:
Congratulations to all of our winning writers who made it onto our Wall of Fame 2020! We’re already hard at work with them, polishing their scripts and pitching them to industry.
If you’d like to see your picture on our Wall of Fame for next year, make sure you submit to our current contests! The Winter 2021 Screenwriting Contest gives you the chance to join our winners slate, with a Grand Prize of $3500 up for grabs. You also get free entry when you submit to our Romance and Comedy Award – the deadline is January 17th!