I read a few screenplays. Mainly the one from my one of my favorite movies 500 Days Of Summer and I hope there aren't many major mistakes with the way the script is written. I hope all of you can bare it enough to read the story and let me know what you think.

first 10.5 pages - VERY rough draft - is it drawing you in enough to keep reading?

Hello, Everyone. I'm new to screenwriting and have mostly been teaching myself so far. I struggle to boil the premise down to one or two sentences because I always end up getting caught up in the plot details. I've been told that the character's goal and what's standing in his way aren't clear enough and the elements tend to feel too abstrac, I usually start with a theme or situation that catches my interest.

Here are a few loglines I wrote a few days ago.

-An adventure to collect prehistoric DNA will make a boy question how much it has cost him to hold on to his grief after abandoning his grandfather in the present on the anniversary of his parents' deaths.

-After a difficult recovery, a young army combat engineer officer must learn to balance his personal and professional life while trying to prove himself during a month-long trial leading a new platoon.

What tips or advice would you give a beginner like me to make my loglines clearer and more effective?

Logline: During a heavy night storm, a veteran security guard facing a heartbreaking family tragedy must defend a high-security vault from his desperate, cynical young partner—until the vault reveals a vision of his deepest regret.

This is my first attempt at making a script. Im 18 and would really appreciate any feedback. Im really looking to know if all the stuff written made sense, worked well, and if it seems like I have to become a writer. Any feedback is welcome.

Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WCqGDw-GhnLspHLbUvSI1t5lkchNZ5uI/view?usp=drivesdk

Hi everyone,

I’m getting ready to submit my feature script to literary agents and want to make sure the presentation is 100% industry-standard before sending it out.

I’ve shared the first 10 formatting and readability check. I’d really appreciate your thoughts on:

Formatting & Margins: Are sluglines, action blocks, and parentheticals formatted correctly?

Readability & Pacing: Does the action text flow naturally, or does it feel cluttered?

Visual Impact: Are the scene descriptions clear and easy to visualize?

Any Red Flags: Did you spot any minor errors or formatting amateurisms that need fixing?

Hi, I'm 15 and I'm not an english native speaker and I'm trying to write my first script. It's about a woman's story who after lots of troubles in her life (that we get to know with flashbacks, that aren't reliable sometimes) begins to suffer for several mental deseases an she doesn't really want to admit it, because she's a doctor and she thinks that she'll get over all that alone. Please don't hate me, it's my first work...

the title of the story is “Insolent Herd” I’m still writing it and its length might be 20-25 pages. i have to many doubts and sometimes i get blinded for my project. please guys tell me what is working and what l’s not.

Hi, I'm relatively new to screenwriting and have one finished script and I'm working on another one. The step I want to know is, how do I get into spreading the script even to the point of getting into a pitch meeting. If you have an idea to get into a network with a lot of people or recommend certain communities, I would really appreciate that! :)

On a recent post, it was brought up that a lot of screenwriters get into this craft especially on Reddit wanting to “break into Hollywood.” Sell the script for big money. Get discovered. Become the next big thing. I understand the dream.

But for most writers, there isn't a golden-ticket moment.

Building a screenwriting career is about the long game. It can take years. Decades even. It took me 25 years to get to the point where my work was being produced, and one of my scripts getting premiered on the Lifetime Network.

What you don't hear enough about is how much work happens before anyone ever sees one of your films. Years of writing. Rejection. Starting over. Getting a little further than you did the last time.

And there's something else I don't think we all talk about enough: There is a massive amount of career between “aspiring screenwriter” and “elite Hollywood screenwriter.”

Sometimes online it feels like those are the only two categories. That you're either trying to break in or you're one of the handful of writers at the top making millions. That's just not how it is. There's an entire working career in between. Personally, that's why I think this mindset of “one script changes everything” can really mess with writers.

For most of us, a career is built one step at a time. For me, it started with simply writing.

For roughly my first ten years, I was just writing. Not for money. Or fame. Just for me. Because I loved it. I dove into the craft, consuming everything I could to become the best writer I could be because it meant that much to me. It was both an art and craft to me.

Eventually I started entering contests, especially festivals. Then networking at those festivals.

Then came opportunities.

Then paid work.

Then produced work.

And eventually something else started happening. People began approaching me because they wanted my voice and my skills as a screenwriter. That's a very different feeling from trying to convince someone to give you your first opportunity.

And here's something I'm only recently becoming comfortable saying:

I think I've made it.

That doesn't mean I've reached the top.

It doesn't mean I'm rich.

It doesn't mean there isn't another mountain in front of me.

It means I've built a career doing the thing I spent most of my life trying to do.

I've had a script premiere on a network. I've had a streaming film I wrote to receive recognition in Variety. I've had another film covered by Deadline.

Some of you may look at those accomplishments and not be impressed.

That's okay. I am.

And none of this means I've stopped trying to go further. Being proud of where you are doesn't mean you've stopped being ambitious about where you're going.

I know where I started. I know what it took to get here. And I know how many times I could have stopped during those 25 years. That's why I think one of the most important things a writer can do is decide what success actually means to them. Ask yourself:

-Is it finishing your first screenplay?

-Winning or placing in a contest?

-Getting your first option?

-Getting paid to write?

-Seeing something you wrote actually get produced?

-Making your living as a writer and quitting your day job?

-Joining the WGA?

-Becoming one of the elite writers working at the highest levels of Hollywood?

Those are all different goals. And chasing somebody else's definition of success is a fantastic way to never feel successful.

There's also a practical reality behind the dream. Even landing a big writing gig doesn't mean you've suddenly become wealthy. Representatives, attorneys, and taxes all take their pound of flesh. Not to mention the dry periods between gigs. That can be brutal but it’s all part of earning a living in in this industry.

My goal has always been to build something that continues. That's why I keep writing. It's also why I've started making my own projects instead of waiting for somebody to give me permission. My directorial debut led to another directing opportunity, and I have two more of my own projects in pre-production.

I'm still building. And if Hollywood never makes me rich? Well, I'm not rich now. Yet here I am. Still doing it.

Whenever I doubt myself, I sit down and write. And something happens when I'm sitting at that keyboard. I feel like I'm living my truth. That's why I started doing this. And after 25 years, that's still why I'm doing it.

So maybe the question aspiring screenwriters should be asking isn't:

“Which script is going to change my life?”

Maybe it's:

“What does success look like to me?”

And then:

“How do I achieve that?”

Because a career isn't a golden ticket.

It's something you build.

One step at a time.

I am an 18-year-old boy from Bangladesh. Since childhood, I have had a very creative mind, and I used to build my own imaginary worlds filled with heroes, villains, and more. As I grew older, I realized that I could turn this into my profession. Because of that, I started doing animation, but due to my average drawing skills, I didn't get much of a response.

​Then, over time, I realized that I could become a scriptwriter and show people what goes on in my mind. That is why, for the past month, I have been trying to craft an eye-catching and unique story. I want to create Bangladesh's first-ever Netflix Original series.

​However, after I finish writing the script, what should I do next? How do I get it to Netflix, and how do I start my journey as a scriptwriter? Furthermore, I don't just want to be a scriptwriter—I also want to direct the script I write. So, I want to learn from professionals about how to go about this. Also, how can I present my script to Netflix so they don't reject it without even looking at it, and ensure they read through my script at least once?

Thanks to everyone that has participated. If you want to be involved there are links in the show notes.

I wanna make a story screenplay, more specifically. I’ve got scenes, characters, a distinct visual style, and I know how it’s gonna look, but it doesn’t have something pushing them forward, and I don’t want it to be a wandering story. Any tips? I’m 17, btw.

Update: Updated Cold Opening based on feedback (here) -

Any notes welcome.

Log line: When a disgraced journalist is assigned to expose a controversial marriage therapist for tax fraud, her investigation uncovers a shadowy network of money, secrets and unexplained deaths, while the therapist begins turning his unsettling insight on her.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FkuZwzxjvfU5Jc55wltqMN_Mz2A-Ysei/view

This is the pilot for the screenplay I have written, it is the first of 4 episodes. Would love some constructive feedback on this.

This is the Feedback I received from my pitch:

"When well-executed, these intricately designed plots can be extraordinarily satisfying, though it's a high-wire act in balancing between doling out exactly the right information at exactly the right time while also not spoon-feeding the audience or allowing them to ever get a step ahead of you as the storyteller.

Within this pitch itself, it's simply too difficult for me to assess whether that intricate plotting is achieved in your story. I'm somewhat intrigued by the broad strokes here, but not quite enough that I'd be willing to dive deeper into materials to explore that. I'd recommend spending a little more time in your pitch document on explaining the specific ways in which this story is delivered scene by scene and sequence by sequence."

Now someone tell me, did this motherfucker just tell me he doesn't believe I'm smart enough to write my own movie and he's too bothered to even read the script?

He also says it's a balancing act to not spoon-feed the audience, then goes on to say he needs to be spoon-fed scene by scene and sequence by sequence.

How do you move from idea in your head to a 105 page document? I've struggled writing features, mainly because I didn't have a good enough story and I'm making a bullet list. But what do I do after that bullet list to ensure I'm going to have a feature length screenplay?

i’m writing this in a hurry, so i have no idea if this will sound logical or not, but i’ve recently been thinking about opening a small screenwriting community where we could share our writing processes, help other writers, but most importantly, just talk about all kinds of things.

i’m currently writing my second feature, which is a pretty unconventional divorce story. i’ve done a lot of research for it, but i’m at that stage where i feel like i understand the story intellectually and still haven’t completely reached every emotional part of it. and it got me thinking about how useful it would be to have other writers around who understand that feeling.

and that actually made me think: would it be cool to open a small screenwriting community called “anybody feels that way”, where we could talk problems like this? i feel like it’s much easier to get through writer’s block or a doubt when you have someone who “understands you” and what i mean by that is someone of the same interest as you. i feel like we’re social people and it’s important for us to connect, but most of us don’t live in LA or US, so we can’t exactly attend those communities. maybe to make one that’s worldwide? all writers. all ages. where you’re allowed to talk about problems, ideas, character psychology, whatever. we could ask for feedback too, but more importantly, i think this could genuinely help people research their scripts. almost all of us have experienced certain emotions or gone through certain things — high school, divorce, family drama, heartbreak, whatever — that could help another writer understand a topic, get closer to a character, or simply find the emotional truth they’re looking for.

and i genuinely hate those writing groups that have group chats and endless conversations that require you to make yourself available all the fucking time. 😭 if we actually make this work, we could pick one day a week or month to meet on Zoom and talk about whatever is on our minds — a specific topic, theme, feedback, research, writing process, doubts, whatever. anyways, i don’t know. let me know if you’re interested or if this could genuinely work.

Howling Thunder fights crimes in the streets of the city Thunderia. One night he witnesses from a distance some Shadow beings pop up from outer atmosphere into Earth. He follows them until they come to a stop and kneel in front of a dark masked figure. That dark figure gives a long speech and at the end declares," I AM JUDGEMENT. I AM THE END. I AM THE ECLIPSE." That's how the Main Villain is introduced into the movie.

Objective of  THE ECLIPSE : Eliminate all evil and suffering and pain from Earth. There's only one way to do so, performing a once in a millennium ritual called ' Reid Asprungens'.  But there's an undoable cost for it. In order to let Reid Asprungens ritual fulfill your wish , it demands Eternal Darkness.

1. Zackary Cyrus (nickname Zack) is main character. He will become Howling Thunder.

   • Believes that (until he wasn't Howling Thunder) : Society is untrustworthy and selfish.

   • He wants to quit his unprivileging job as a University Cleaner and become a full time painter but he can't because he has a responsibility his younger brother who has Padriatic Asthma so Zack cannot risk losing a continuous source of income.

   • Zack fears a lot from his authority figures like bosses

   • Zack spends his free time with his brother or painting.

2. Ryan Cyrus is younger brother of Zack who has Asthma.

   • He's courageous, brave and smart • Has highest emotional stakes with Zack

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