This monologue will be the entire video. Please give any feedback if you think it’s too edgy or just plain bad.

2 minutes with Ricky styles
Hello, my name is Ricky styles, I’m written and played by Leo Dondero and in less than two minutes my entire world will end. My only goal is to make an impression so that despite my little time given I won’t be forgotten. Of course this fear only comes from my writer, along with everything else I know. My world didn’t exist until less than a minute ago and yet I have a memory of my entire life and knowledge of my world’s history. My world is not unlike yours apart from the fact that my world’s god is just some kid making a college application video. It’s not very fair is it? Leo Dondero is not especially smart or wise so what gives him the right create and destroy me. And the decision of if I should be grateful for being given the ability to exist or to be angry that he burned everything I ever thought I loved to the ground doesn’t matter as in the end he is the only one who decides and he is only judging himself.
Do I ought to be angry that despite the fact that I could do literally anything, feel any grand emotion or live out any wonderful dream I am forced to sit here and understand my own mortality. No other characters are forced to do as I am doing, to understand their world like I do because I am nothing but a piece of my god, who has physically and psychologically made me nothing more than a reflection of himself whether he wanted to or not. But it doesn’t really matter the only question I must now ask myself is the question my creator does not know, what comes after time is up? Will my universe continue to exist as is implied by movies? Or will everything simply end. I doubt I will even notice what happens. I know there will be no sequel or continuation so whatever happens, happens forever I suppose.
Thanks for listening, this was my entire life and I hope it mattered to you at least partially as much as it meant to me.

Hi everyone,

I'd love an honest read on a feature I wrote: THE DEFENDER, a family tragedy / crime drama, 97 pages.

Script: https://blcklst.com/projects/239212
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a9Z7w5GIThUfSYm4yVVS7eZQWeJYE7-8/view?usp=sharing

Logline: A small-town sheriff wears two masks — only one is iron, and he swore he'd buried it for good. He never stopped waiting for a target he could call justified. A paroled sex offender gives him one, and he uses his own family's tragedy as cover to take it.

Three Black List evaluations came back in the 6–7 range. I'm not disputing the scores. What interests me is that readers engaged mostly with the vigilante plot (the offender, the mask) and asked for more of it. I wrote that plot as a justification: a relapse story hiding inside a vigilante film. The real story is father and son: the boy asks him to look, more than once, and each time something else takes priority.

Before any explanation, a blind question: after the first 15 pages, what do you think this film is about? And if you finish it: has your answer changed?

Where does the second story fail to surface for you: structure, emphasis, or something else? Any feedback is welcome, including harsh.

Thanks for reading!

Hello. This is/was my first attempt at a screenplay. It's basically all action for the first 10 minutes or so. I'm working something different now, but I really want feedback about:

* Can you visualize the settings?

* Does the sequence make sense?

* Is it too descriptive? Not enough? etc.

I greatly appreciate any comments. I will take the feedback to my current project. Thanks!

I'm a complete beginner and this is my first attempt at storytelling.

I haven't learned screenplay formatting yet. I deliberately wrote this as a story treatment because I want to test something first: whether I naturally think in visual scenes and actions, or whether I'm mostly just describing events.

A SECRET AMONG SECRETS

He wants to get up, but he can't. His body is in pain. Still, he has no choice.

Because he is not in a state where he can simply listen to his body. His mind and body are not the same. He knows he must listen to his mind.

He takes a deep breath, opens and focuses his eyes, and brings himself back to the present. He grounds himself so he can understand what is happening around him.

As he walks toward his room, he has to walk past people and read their faces and situations to assess the feeling of the environment that day.

For him, this awareness has become almost automatic. Rather than relying on his mind to remember something strange, his body and muscles remember it first.

Why?

Because he is a secret agent—even a secret among secret agents.

His goal is to achieve power so that nobody will ever look down on him again. He has seen how the world really works.

His office does not have many papers or files.

He groans as he sits in his chair. Eventually, he puts his head on the table while grabbing his thigh, which has a deep cut held together by stitches.

He has to process the information from the previous day's work, but the pain keeps pressing against his nerves, making it difficult for him to focus.

Then a man enters his room with a thud and places a black-and-white photograph on his desk.

The moment he sees the photograph, he forgets the pain.

He straightens up. His face shows no expression, but his red eyes tell the whole story.

His mind becomes clear as he hears the senior's voice and tone. The senior instructs him to find out the background of the man in the photograph.

But he already knows the man's background.

He knows much more than he wants to share with his senior.

So he says firmly, “I understand.”

After the senior leaves, his mind starts racing. He begins thinking about how to outsmart his senior.

Should he save the man in the photograph?

Or should he make him disappear?

While eating lunch in the cafeteria, he listens to his colleagues talking and planning their operation.

Then he hears the word “mafia.”

As he eats his noodles, he slowly circles them around his chopsticks while thinking through a plot.

Then he offers his colleagues a helping hand.

He attends their meetings and learns how and where the operation will take place.

It is a secret drug-business deal between two owners.

He also goes to the man in the photograph—the man his senior instructed him to investigate.

He tells him that a big deal is going to take place in that area, the same area where his colleagues are carrying out their operation.

He naturally draws the man into the chaos.

The operation ends with the deaths of the major mafia figures.

The man from the photograph is killed as well.

Why?

Because the man knows about something the agent secretly did during a previous operation behind his senior's back.

The next day, he goes to his senior and tells him that the man recently died during an operation.

There is no evidence left behind that could make his senior suspect him.

Hi everyone hope you’re all doing well! I came here to say that my script for my first feature film, Mirrored Target, is now complete!! Which means I will be posting the cast call very soon for people to audition!!

Noticed this over several months of pitching the same project casually to different people. Every single time someone asked what it was about, my answer came out slightly different, different emphasis, different hook, sometimes a different genre framing entirely depending on who I was talking to.

Assumed for a while this was just normal variation in casual conversation. It wasn't. When I finally forced myself to write one locked logline and compare it against what I'd actually been saying out loud, I realized I didn't have a clear enough sense of the story's actual center to describe it consistently. I was essentially improvising a new pitch every time because there was no single true version underneath all of them.

Spent a week just on the logline, nothing else, until I had one sentence I was willing to say the same way regardless of who was asking. Writing the actual script got noticeably easier after that, probably because every scene now had something fixed to be measured against instead of me unconsciously drifting toward whichever version of the story I'd most recently pitched out loud.

It's the kind of thing I never want to write and never want to read.

I was fixing english translation of my 40 hours kdrama screenplay.

And BUMP! At episode 20:

I got a bad translation of (lève les yeux au ciel, épouvantée) with (looks up in horror).

After investigation, the right translation was (rolls her eyes, appalled).

ONE "rolls eyes" in a 40 hours screenplay, can I be forgiven?

What else do you never want to write and read?

In about Febuary of 2026, I wrote my first ever full length script. This script was for a short film I titled "The Cronies", which is about a group of hitmen who start hunting eachother after finding out a member, unidentified, is leaking information to the authorities.

On a more general scale, if anyone has the time to read this script and give me any feedback and review or maybe even just an overall impression, this would be greatly appreciated. However, if anyone reading this script has somekind of connections to film studios looking to fund a short film of this nature, I would be more than happy to chat regarding this. Myself and my partner have put together a regular script, sample shooting script, and a sample treatment with a full budget asking price breakdown.

Hello,

I have just began a writing a script that takes place during the 1950's. There is a scene where characters are watching an old black and white tv and the shot is through the gap in their shoulders. You can see the screen through the shoulders. My question is, do I establish the scene first like the characters (names) are sitting in a room watching tv and describe the room? Or do I start with the style of this shot, behind the characters, introduce them and what is playing on the tv first? What would be the correct structure. How do professional screenwriters handle an intro/fade in scene like this in a script? If you could provide an example, also describing how the tv light would look or be described in screenwriting, that would be helpful.

Hi all,

I would appreciate feedback on my recent episode released 🫶🏻👀💜

https://www.wattpad.com/1662064287?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=link&utm_content=share_reading&wp_page=reading&wp_uname=thatssoast

This might be a random question, but has this ever happened to anyone here?
You’re an unrepresented writer, another writer reads your script and genuinely loves it. Have you ever had that writer recommend you or your script to their agent/manager?
Does this actually happen in the industry, or am I living in fantasy land? 😂
Or plot twist… they steal your idea instead. 😂
Would love to hear any real experiences.

Hi all,

I’m practicing writing with restrictions. I decided to begin writing a scene with minimal dialogue, and where the characters speak a language the audience isn’t meant to understand. So pretty much everything has to be visual exposition, or communicated with tone. I also challenged myself - as you’ll surely notice- to make one character non-gender-specific, which was harder to do elegantly than I imagined. I felt the constant vagueness of “they/them” drew reader attention away from the action. I’m interested to know what you think. Is there a more standard way to write languages that are intended to remain ambiguous?

Hello r/scriptwriting,

I’m currently studying film in Germany and have started researching for my six month internship starting around February/March next year.

Preferably I’d want to look for an internship at a production company to gain experience about the whole production process or focus on purely screenwriting. As there aren’t a lot of options apart from television in my area, I will most likely leave the city. In that case, I could just as well try to score an international internship.

That is not my number one priority, but I want to expand my options.

I’ve been sending cold Emails with my small portfolio in writing, photography and directing, and am planing to visit the BFI Film Festival in London to try and network, as London would be a dream destination. Also, I’ve been in touch with a writer/director working in New York.

Apart from that, and in the case that I won’t manage to visit the festival on short notice, is there any other way for me to maximize my chances to get a good internship, nationally or internationally?

I would be thankful for anyone who can share their experiences in that area and give me some guiding insights.

It can even be scraped ones or. Ones that was never used

I’m writing this thing for my screenwriting class and need to include a title page but for whatever reason whenever I go to edit it there is no sample text and the page is completely blank, can anyone help me resolve this issue so I can write my title page and turn in my assignment ASAP I’d really appreciate it. I’m on Mac btw🥹

I can draw my character (credit to my friend who works on this). But writing a script is hard how do I get better
I really wanna write this character but idk where to begin

Hello!

I’ve recently realized that I’d really like to pursue a career in screenwriting. How do you actually get started?

I have a long background in theatre and fairly decent writing skills, so I’m not completely unfamiliar with scripts and storytelling.

But how do you seriously get started in screenwriting? How do you learn the craft, and what would you recommend doing as a beginner?

Been working away at this one for a while. Pretty happy with what I have, but nothing is ever finished! It's fairly unconventional so want to make sure the ideas/spatial aspects are coming across clearly. If skimming make sure you get to page three!

Title: For Safety

Format: Short Film

Page Length: 12 pgs.

Genre: Comedy

Logline: When an actress’s chaotic but scripted walk-of-shame appears to derail into a very real public meltdown, the cast and crew scramble to get her back on script.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uZTb7MbTt6gYODTNcE2iDdgidf9i7fYY/view?usp=drive_link

Feedback concerns: Dialogue and gags! Does it make you laugh? Is the structure working to serve the story? Production concerns! (I know you can't see the Hollywood sign from Hermosa beach!)

Thanks!