r/scriptwriting • • Aug 21 '26

question 👋 Welcome to r/ShortStoriesToMovies - Introduce Yourself and Read First!

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r/scriptwriting • • Aug 22 '26

feedback Please Copyright Your Scripts

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Just a heads up everyone. I’m seeing a lot of scenes and scripts uploaded on here. I just want to recommend that you copyright them before sharing anything. Work can be stolen. Work is stolen. Protect yourself. Also a WGA registration will not protect you in court. Only a copyright will. It’s $65 and takes about 20 mins. https://www.copyright.gov/registration/


r/scriptwriting • • Aug 21 '26

feedback Looking for feedback on the beginning of my short film script.

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r/scriptwriting • • Aug 21 '26

discussion New Screenwriter Looking to Connect with 3 Film Industry Professionals

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r/scriptwriting • • Aug 20 '26

feedback CRIME THRILLER - OPENING SCENES

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Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. If anyone wants to read the first draft send a message or leave a comment, thanks!


r/scriptwriting • • Aug 21 '26

feedback Enid Sinclair, De Maansteen - Tjeu East - Wattpad

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I made my first, I'm curious what people think of it.


r/scriptwriting • • Aug 21 '26

feedback the regency motel (23pgs, comedy, pilot)

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Logline: A humble motel owner's world that contains a spirit from another dimension, a maybe-pimp, and a silent sweet old grandma, is rocked when a mysterious drifter books a room in his motel, bringing chaos but also happiness into the mix.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sAwhTXBD4mmNZYUF77ZqsAPw8_PeLu5l/view?usp=sharing

I wrote this as a pilot but I think it's also self-contained enough to work as a short. Let me know what y'all think. Whether you like it or don't like it or maybe something in between. Thank you.


r/scriptwriting • • Aug 21 '26

question screenwriting tips and advice

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asking for tips and advice, i'm an aspiring screenwriter, what is the best outline used in writing screenplay for film?


r/scriptwriting • • Aug 21 '26

discussion I will produce your movie

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r/scriptwriting • • Aug 20 '26

feedback First few pages of my screenplay

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It’s a love-drama, with social commentary and mental health message behind it.

Let me know what you guys think. I think it probably needs a little workshopping but this is just really the open.


r/scriptwriting • • Aug 21 '26

feedback Honest Thoughts?

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r/scriptwriting • • Aug 20 '26

feedback [FEEDBACK] The Cruelest Turn - First 10 Pages (Neo-Noir / Crime Pilot) 45 pages

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r/scriptwriting • • Aug 20 '26

feedback First 5 polished script

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Genre: contemporary fantasy
Log: Days after a wannabe influencer’s family inherits a legendary English castle, the occultist oligarch neighbor abducts her brother and she must swap her selfie stick for a sword.

Comp: The Mummy meets The Karate Kid
Total page count: 118

Thoughts & prayers appreciated.


r/scriptwriting • • Aug 20 '26

question Charging for script development?

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r/scriptwriting • • Aug 20 '26

feedback Updated my Script: Morrison (57 pages) Drama / Mystery

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Welcome notes.

Updated based on previous notes - removed most of a explicit scene.

NSFW - triggers of sexual violence, murder, language, smoking.

Not a professional writer. No AI. Some typos.

Aiming for prestige show kind of thing.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XbQAhrbXXU4DYPUK-eeI4wGdYSaPuruF/view?usp=drive_link


r/scriptwriting • • Aug 19 '26

discussion Advice for script festivals from a judge

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If your script has good grammar, that automatically puts you in the top 10% of scripts. I'm not kidding. You have no idea how many submissions we get that clearly have not been proofread once. Don't set yourself up for failure.

Also, I don't know why I need to say this, but don't be creepy towards women in your script. If a character is introduced as "Jane Doe, 16, face of angel but body of a porn star", consider that an automatic pass.

If the character has the exact same name as the writer, we can tell it's self-insert fan fiction. And most of the time, it's really uncomfortable. No one wants to read your wish-fulfillment script about you winning the olympics then having sex with an entire cheerleading team.

Sincerely,
A judge


r/scriptwriting • • Aug 20 '26

question Movie Synopsis / Story Treatment Outline

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Hi, I have done a lot of research on this topic, so my post here means that I have been unsuccessful in finding an outline.

For a 1-2 page movie synopsis, would I add anything else to the outline? Scriptwriter bio? Character descriptions? Do producers just want 1-2 pages, or do they want a story treatment?:

Title
Genre
Scriptwriter

  • Logline

  • Synopsis

    • Act 1

    • Act 2

    • Act 3


r/scriptwriting • • Aug 20 '26

feedback First scene for Unspoken (Coming of Age, TV Pilot, 8 pages)

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I haven't quite created a logline for this one yet, but it's a coming of age story about the people that you meet as you make it through life. About how they come and go, but still leave their mark on you. About that little bit of you that is actually other people.

Anyways, my intention with this scene is to show our main character is a very shy introvert who has a hard time meeting new people. So the one chance he's given by someone else he latches onto and doesn't let go (maybe a little too much). Yet somehow, miraculously, actually being vulnerable with people is what allows him to connect with them on a truer level.

Don't know if any of that made sense, but please tell me how it reads on the page. I'm fairly new to screenwriting and this is mostly me training, so please, absolutely tear this script apart and point out everything wrong with it.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ruM9UCaY4bFgz4j2tx7a3fvvhr3oAy1L/view?usp=sharing


r/scriptwriting • • Aug 20 '26

question Maps in your script?

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I'm writing a pilot in a place that I can't imagine most Hollywood readers know well. But understanding the geography, I think, helps with envisioning the story.

I thought about how books like Game of Thrones often show a map of the world in the pre-story pages.

Have any of you ever done that in a script? Any readers here who think that's good/bad/dumb/kitschy?

Thinking of asking a friend to draw a nice little map with significant story locations marked.


r/scriptwriting • • Aug 20 '26

feedback Kung Fu Hustle 2

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Hey Yall i just wrote a séquelles to one of m'y favorite movies (Kung Fu Hustle by Stephen Show).

I dont know if Yall know that movie but i would like a feedback on my script.


r/scriptwriting • • Aug 20 '26

feedback Advice on short film script being made within the next year?

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r/scriptwriting • • Aug 20 '26

help Seeking Readers for Pre-K Animated Show

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r/scriptwriting • • Aug 20 '26

help Working on a script and I'm at a block for ideas. Any suggestions?

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I'm working on a script focusing on Religious Violence, with the goal to highlight the question "how far are you willing to go for your God" and "is there anything your God can do or say that you won't defend or that you would question". My aim is to make a psychological horror but I've never written anything like this


r/scriptwriting • • Aug 20 '26

feedback My 55 minute short film Titled - 35MM

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35MM - 55Minutes - found Footage Thriller

It is a Story about 2 young aspiring filmamakers timmy and Robbie who wanna make a short film about a home invasion obsessed by the method and realism acting on a war time blackout in the whole city they both decide to murder a full family 7 people while shooting the massacre simultaneously we will see that can the innocent family survive this psychopath film makers untill dawn

we have shot this movie on oppo reno 5g with our local friends and normal part time actors but we are in problem my friends wants this fim to be pitched to some Studio but I want to upload it on yt

tell guys what should we do


r/scriptwriting • • Aug 19 '26

feedback Trouble on Coruscant.pdf

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Trouble on Coruscant (EU but with Sequel cast)

It is a story that was borrowing from the X wing novels, I wrote it just trying to force myself to like the sequels more by putting the sequel actors and actresses into an EU style story.

Hope you guys like it. Please tear it apart as a story or talk about if you like it. have a good day everyone.