Screenwriting Tools

I’ve recently come across some pretty awesome links, which I thought I’d share.

http://tvwriting.googlepages.com/pilotschool

Screenwriter John August (Big Fish) put this link up at his site, I clicked around a little, if it’s really what it is advertising that’s an absolute goldmine.

It has a gajillion TV pilot scripts, some very recent like Kings and others older.

Also John has put up a couple incredibly helpful YouTube how-to videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPHIb1RweeI

Above is “Writing Better Action”

And below is “Writing Better Scene Description”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4IXNOO_YkQ&feature=related

I’ve been writing screenplays for about 5 years and I found these extremely helpful, with tips you might not necessarily think of, even if you’ve been doing this a while, like me.

Also there’s a site where this guy actually reviews scripts, and he seems to have a bunch of ones yet-to-be-produced. He has links to scripts so you can read them too, through some sort of download service.

http://scriptshadow.blogspot.com/

I haven’t used his site much, just clicked around a little, so I can’t necessarily vouch for it 100% but it could be a really neat resource for finding scripts.

-Dan Benamor