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Online class #14 – How To Write A Killer First Act For Your Screenplay

In last month’s SYS Select Class I taught you how to make the opening pages of your screenplay awesome. Over the next couple of months I will be dissecting each…

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Online Class #10: Writing a Great Ending To Your Screenplay

Endings are crucially important to leaving a good and lasting impression on the people who read your screenplay. If your screenplay has a killer ending, people will finish reading on…

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Online Class #9: Writing A Great Second Act For Your Screenplay

Screenplays often live or die in the second act. Writers often start a script with a clear idea about how it should end. And many times writers have a clear…

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Online class #8 – How To Write A Killer First Act For Your Screenplay

In last month’s SYS Select Class I taught you how to make the opening pages of your screenplay awesome. Over the next couple of months I will be dissecting each…

Online Classes

Online Class #7 – How To Make The Opening Pages Of Your Screenplay Awesome

The opening pages of your screenplay are by far the most important pages of your entire screenplay. If you have a great opening few pages and you set up your…

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Online Class #6: How To Pitch With Alan Katz

Pitching is one of those skills that every screenwriter must posses. From formal pitching to producers and studio executives, to pitch fests, to pitching people on the street, every screenwriter…

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Online Class #5 – How To Write And Sell (or Produce) A Contained, Limited Location, Feature Screenplay, With Jacob N. Stuart

In this month’s SYS online class, Jacob N. Stuart is going to be teaching the entire process of writing and producing a contained, limited location, feature screenplay. Why is Jacob…

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Online Class #4 – How To Write And Sell (or Produce) A Short Film, With Jacob N. Stuart

In the SYS Podcast Episode 004 I talked about how to get your first few credits as a screenwriter. The core of what I recommended was that you write and…

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Online class #3: Writing Actor Bait – How To Write Scripts That Actors Will Want To Star In, With Paul T. Murray

Hopefully after the last two online class, Choosing a Marketable Concept and Before You Begin To Write Your Screenplay, you now have a solid, marketable story concept and a detailed…

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Online Class #2: Before You Begin To Write Your Screenplay

Selling Your Screenplay is proud to announce the second in a series of live online courses dedicated to helping people write better screenplays. Hopefully after the last online class, Choosing…

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SYS Services to Help Screenwriters

  • SYSs Six-Figure Screenplay Contest
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  • Wondering which contests to enter? Check out our list of recommended screenplay contests.

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Everything You Need To Know To Sell Your Screenplay

  • Selling Your Screenplay (in a nutshell)
  • How do you protect your work? Screenplay copyrights and WGA registration
  • Writing A Screenplay Logline
  • How to write a professional query letter for your screenplay
  • Building a Database of Agents, Managers and Producers
  • Sending Your Screenplay Query Letter to Your Database of Contacts
  • What to Expect From Your Query Letters
  • How do you get an agent for your screenplay? (And why you don’t need one!)
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SYS Podcast Episode 534 – Disney, James Cameron and Animation with Pietro Schito

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SYS Podcast Episode 533 – Writing an Interactive TV Series with Gavin Michael Booth

Podcast Transcripts

SYS Podcast Episode 533 – Writing an Interactive TV Series with Gavin Michael Booth (transcript)