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Yep, the best review site. Nothing comes close to what TS had.

I loved TS also. Have either of you gone on www.zoetrope.com? It's great and similar. Once you sign up they have a screenwriting lab section as well as some other literary art labs.

Morgan....I tried it right after TS closed down...had the worst experience ever....will never go back there

That's too bad. I've met some great writers on the site. And some bad ones too. I try not to review anything that I completely think is bad as most the time you get some revengeful feedback. But I promise you will read and review some great stuff more than not.

Thanks for the connect Morgan.

Yeah, I joined Zoe shortly after I joined TS. It's a pity Janet had a bad experience with it. ALL script review sites have jerks and TS was no exception but personally, I haven't had any issues with Zoe and I quite enjoy the site. It's the best of the current sites and you can see FFC has some big plans with his revamp.

Thanks, Amanda! I'm looking forward to it, and I appreciate your kind words!

Brian, what's the link for that course! You are one brilliant amazing teacher.

Awesome, Brian!

Hi Veleka Gray - here's the link: https://www.stage32.com/webinars/The-Dirty-Secret-of-Story-Structure

Hello everyone! What a journey I am experiencing! After a week in LA to attend the Sag-Aftra National Convention and networking with my Industry colleagues and doing some Karaoke to keep my chops together to reform my Band King Fish to Preacher and the Profits. I came home to make plans to travel to Tupelo, Ms to do a site location for my Robert Johnson " King of the Blues " project. I have not been to Tyler Town where a lot of Ginn's still reside since I was 2 years old. This is the birthplace of the original Delta Blues Man ( not Elvis ) and I will go to the Juke joints and capture the culture, then, send the video to the Producers to identify Zeke's Place where he was discovered. Currently, involved in three political campaigns. Two for Mayors in Seattle and Tacoma and one USS race. The significance of my advocacy is that each race, once my candidates are elected it is tied to the film industry here in the NW as each position makes it beneficial for perks for rentals of equipment, hotel and vehicle discounts, site locations and providing jobs for our Union Actor's to work where there is little in my community, because of Non-Union casting. Next and last piece is recording the Sound Track for the movie with a 32 piece Orchestra like James Brown had and add a Female Singer! I told the Producers that once this epic film is in the CAN release the 4 CD first set to drive traffic to the box office as the Blues that he created has a Global following. The ROI will most likely take care of the budget before it's release. Formula today, in my opinion, is low budget and high return! Sales projected for the album sales is $50M+. Not bad after 7 years of rewrites to get to this point. My long time friend Gregory Crosby, Founder and CEO for Make-Believe-Entertainment who Co-Produced Hacksaw Ridge it took 15 years to get to the Theaters receiving two Academy Awards. I would say I am in good company. Other development is that Amazon is planning to build a second location in Tacoma, WA where I live. RB you know me when opportunity presents itself I will grab it and run with it. So, I am always planning for the future, especially with Amazon that will be in my Hood! Letting it go and always concentrating on my Art. You all Have Some Fun Today and good luck in all of your endeavors. Always moving forward. YNOT!

Congrats on your successes, PJ! Happy to connect!

Your movies looks so cool! Can't wait to watch Lucid! Going to watch it on Amazon.

Sci-fi as a vehicle to explore the complete range of human experience, from joy to sadness, nobility to decadence. Horror, no, not at all. But welcome to S32!

Thank you for the welcome and to you sir I say that horror is the truest exploration to humankind's greatest question: what lies between life and death.

And isn't it great to see people terrorized by monsters :)

I'm glad Regina has called this behaviour out. It's totally unacceptable to send industry members unsolicited scripts. It's not only incredibly rude but also, as she has explained, can be legally jeopardising for the recipient. Thankfully she has all that in hand.

For more information on this, a working screenwriter on Reddit posted the following recently after other writers started sending them their own material; https://www.reddit.com/r/Screenwriting/comments/6vtc1m/please_dont_send_...

Seriously though, this is basic stuff. Anybody wanting to work in the industry needs to know this and needs to know that if someone ever tells you it's okay to do they are most likely toxic themselves and too deluded to see it - or they are trying to sabotage your career.

The insults are a whole new level of unprofessionalism and almost laughable considering how polite and generous Regina has proven herself to be.

On a community level, this needs to be made clear. This is how you drive valuable contributors away.

Typical emotional response from a person hungry for success but in the process shooting him/herself (although it sounds like a dude) in the foot thereby. Unfortunate response, though. Like you said, Regina, a number of things could have happened, I have had to reach back out to different people for a few years now and some respond and some don´t. What ever the fact, this unprofessional behaviour is partially the reason why it´s a tough road to "break in". Not everyone knows how to conduct themselves in professional businness environments. Like always, I could be wrong, of course.

Someone wrote something similar to this on the Nicholl Fellowship facebook page on why their script wasn't accepted.

Thank you for your good will, Owen, Dan, CJ, Zlatan, and Anthony.

Ouch! Always unpleasant to receive a message like that, especially unexpected and unsolicited.

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Hi Jeff!

Hey Andrea. Lovely to "see" you.

Those of you who don't know, Andrea won Best Feature Script at Shriekfest this year with a very creepy-sounding piece called The Heebies.

See you out and about Andrea.

Shriekfest is the best! Congrats Andrea!

And congrats to you Jeffrey! I know you were a finalist this year. And Page is incredible!

I've learned a few things concerning both screenwriting and book writing over the years. If you've got a good script, you can turn it into a book. The reverse is also true. However, writing the screenplay first is easier...only 120 pages and its so much easier to rewrite than a book of say 180-400 pages, which one must continually rewrite, sometimes pages at a time.

I typically write 5-7 drafts. The first one is always shorter than the last.

If your goal is to sell it or get optioned, you would send it to get script notes from someone you trust, that'll tell you how many rewrites.

I normally do two rewrites unless the script optioned then I go through more rewrites because they always get rewritten during the development/production stages. However when I first started out I would do a ton of rewrites because I didn't know what I was doing at the time.

When I complete a manuscript I look through it many times... scribble notes into it... dialogue that could be improved and I go back and rework all those notes into the script.

Crowdfunding sometimes works if you are willing to go through a lot of work and pain. It's not for everyone. But you should try it anyway for an experience. You might like it, some people do. Sites? I let others chime on that subject. Other sources of funding - friends and family. At the level where you are at the moment that will be your best choice. Private investors. Possible. But you have to know how to create a package and present it to your possible donors. There are those guys? Everywhere, look around, ask around, boards, networking places, IMDB if you have IMDB pro and know how to search and can understand what is up there, in front of you! And of course everything starts with your team. Investors will judge you by your team. And you have to have some first money in, in the bank, in order to a attract right people on board who will help you to navigate deeper waters. One thing is to show up only with a script in hand, another is to bring some 'legs' to the table. I think it's a good start to consider options and start making some moves. Good luck. Cheers.

Seed and Spark is the best one for filmmakers. It has the Duplass Brothers as backers. 75% success rate. I have one up right now.

Crowdfunding can work if you can show people what you can do with very little. Save up and shoot a 1min kickass scene from your script, that video will be your proof of concept on kickstarter or studios to show you have the talent. This is how Caradog James got over million to make The Machine http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2317225/

Find a copy of Hollywood Representation Directory 2016/17, Hollywood Screenwriting Directory or Hollywood Creative Directory 2016/17. https://www.amazon.com/Hollywood-Screenwriting-Directory-Spring-Summer/d...

But make sure your script is really ready before submitting. Get it professionally read through a script doctor, you'll get lots of notes.

Buy used it's cheaper or call Barnes Nobles 3rd Street Prominade , Santa Monica and see if they have the latest LA411, search small production companies and call them if you can browse at their office. Make sure you copyright all your stuff first http://www.copyright.gov and http://www.wgawregistry.org/webrss/.

Thanks Ken it's been copyrighted great I'll take a look at that directory.