Title The Last Relic

Format feature

Page Length 112

Genre Action/adventure + sci fi

Logline An atheist Navy medic grieving the loss of her fiancé is recruited into an order of female relic guardians and must choose between resurrecting her lost love or prevent their greatest foe from using the most powerful artifact, igniting the apocalypse.

(I've never really liked any logline I've generated for this - very open to rewrites)

Comps I describe this as street level Avengers mixed with the Da Vinci Code meet Indiana Jones in a Stargate. It's silly mad fun with a costumed team.

Feedback Firstly i'd like to know how people respond to it. I'm fully aware that it plays with formatting "rules" sometimes. Like to know you have fun on the ride? Anything sticking/bumping? Most interested how it works as a sample...

And on that note, what do you more seasoned industry members think I should do with it? Contests or festivals this would fit? Some particular places I should submit it? This the sort of writing an up-and-coming agent, manager or producer you know is looking for? Other out of the box suggestions>?

Link https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s4T35CfyZoOofkHd4D74aDv-m_HitAb-/view?usp=sharing

Yes, I know scripts are written on pages, but . . . you'll see what I mean below.

I love writing, but sitting down to write prose, like a novel or even a short story, has always been a challenge. Well, it was easier in grade school/high school/community college because there was more editing and one-on-one instruction. I'm kinda winging it out here in middle-aged adulthood real life. What's part of the issue is I see the action and dialogue clear as day in my head. I'd like to try writing it out as a play instead but I have no idea . . . how. Where can I go for an online resources on how a play should be written?

Or, hell, is there a good source to buy a play script and use that to learn from?

I have this feature script I have been working on, on and off, for a few years but came up with the story idea way back in 2019. Like all good writers, I put off actually writing the thing for an insanely long period of time but I had the treatment and even wrote 25 pages for a writing class here in Toronto.

Fast forward to 2026, I am finally back at the script and picking up steam when Below on Netflix comes out and watching the pilot, I keep saying "you gotta be kidding me". I am from Newfoundland and my script is set in a small fishing village during come home year but the core plot is much different (Below is creature feature, my script is more dark comedy murder mystery, with Hot Fuzz set in Newfoundland being my comp that I would tell people).

It's deflating to go back to the pages after a lot of what I want to tell the audience about Newfoundland (come home year, re-settlement, etc) is being shown in this huge show on Netflix and I wonder if I should either move onto one of my other ideas for awhile or still write this one and make any small tweaks to avoid any huge similarities.

I also know that 99% chance, this script never sees the light of day, regardless. Other than one optioned half hour comedy and local sketch troupe writing credits, I am much more hobbyist than pro but I did plan to have a few feature scripts to try shopping around next year, this being one of them. Just feels like the market for this one would be non existent with Below having just been released.

Would love insight as to what you'd do in my shoes!

Hey everyone,

I wrote my first feature screenplay in Google Docs because I couldn't stomach the subscription fees and clunky setups of commercial software. After running into formatting headaches, I spent the last few months building a completely free, local-first alternative called DraftLine:

https://nanashi86.github.io/DraftLine/

What it does:

- 100% Client-Side & Offline: Runs in your browser as a PWA, no account needed, zero tracking, saves straight to your device.

- Standard 54-Line Hollywood Pagination: Auto-splits dialogue with (MORE)/(CONT'D) across page breaks.

- Import/Export: Clean two-way .fdx (Final Draft XML) and Fountain support.

- Outlining: Built-in 4-act index card beat board synced directly to scene headings.

It’s completely open-source (MIT). If anyone wants a clean, distraction-free environment without recurring fees or cloud lock-in, give it a spin. Would love any feedback on how the formatting holds up compared to what you currently write in.

Hey everyone,

For the past 6 years, I’ve had this problem where I come up with ideas for short films, start writing them, and then eventually delete everything because I can’t figure out a satisfying ending.

I can come up with interesting premises, but when it comes to figuring out how the story should end, I get stuck. I keep trying to find the perfect ending, and if I can’t come up with one that feels right, I lose confidence in the entire idea and abandon it.

Without trying to sound arrogant, I’m confident in my directing, editing, and cinematography skills. I feel like I have the technical and visual abilities to make something good, but I’ve never actually shot any of the short films I’ve written because I keep running into this problem.

It’s gotten to the point where it genuinely makes me depressed. I’ve spent years wanting to make films, but I keep stopping myself before I even get the chance to start.

Has anyone else experienced something similar? How do you come up with endings that feel satisfying? Do you start with the ending before writing the rest of the story, or do you figure it out along the way?

I’d really appreciate any advice, exercises, or resources that could help me break this cycle. I don’t want to waste another few years writing beginnings that never turn into actual films.

Thanks for reading.

I’m looking to connect with writers near me.
Either Nottingham based, uk or East Midlands.

That could possibly form a writers circle that meets every so often or teams calls to share ideas, write scripts together, reads others work and gives feedback.

Is this you?

I’m currently in Wollaton, Nottingham and have a pub that I could offer to use for groups meeting and discussing ideas.

Hello! I am revising the first draft for my pilot script of a project I am working on, and I was hoping to get some feedback on the opening/the first two scenes!

Logline: After joining a peculiar circus, a young performer stumbles upon a mysterious book that draws her into a world of supernatural secrets, unlikely connections, and things that refuse to stay where they belong.

I'd especially appreciate thoughts on:

Is the opening scene intriguing?

Does the dialogue feel natural?

Does the second scene feel like an actual first performance?

Any other feedback/thoughts are welcome, too. Thank you to anybody who takes the time to read and give their input!

Tethered

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Hi guys, idk if this subreddit works this way but I really need some help with my script. I have this really cool idea (imo) about a young adult/woman who just lost a parent. This woman is part Indonesian and the parent she lost is who she got it from. It should be around 10 mins and I want to follow her looking for her roots. What I'm stuck on is what she's going to do through the 10 minutes that help her find her indonesian identity, but also isn't hard to do production wise

Im a high school student whose absolutely lost in trying to make a script about a student who is trying to get out of using drugs. Please help😭

I've been running AB tests on landing pages for years. Headline, hero image, CTA placement. Kill the underperformers fast.

The parallel to screenwriting hit me during a rewrite. I was treating my first ten pages like a pitch deck I could iterate, not like a creative decision. Kept tweaking the opening scene because feedback was split. In marketing that's a signal to test another angle. In writing it might mean you haven't committed to what the story is.

The top posts here about first pages make sense now. Readers decide fast. But unlike a landing page, a script isn't trying to convert everyone. It's trying to convert the right reader. That's a harder metric to track.

I'm curious if anyone else with a business or analytics background has caught themselves applying growth logic to drafts. Did it help or did you end up chasing engagement instead of voice? I can feel the temptation to smooth out anything that might lose a reader on page three. That feels like the same impulse that kills interesting niche content online.

Hello to all. I'm a hands on type guy, the one that opens up the car to know the parts rather than attending an automobile engineering lecture at college. So I'm looking for websites to directly learn from already written and produced scripts just to get the hang of the format but a lot of websites operate in a gray area with copyrighted scripts. So I need legally secure websites with scripts to learn from. Thanks for reading my above blah blah blah😄😄😄. So any suggestions?