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Elizabeth Dickinson
Female Led Westerns?

I met someone recently who's written a female led Western and I'm feeling frustrated because I don't remember who it was! Anyway, wanted to let them know that InkTip has a producer looking for them. If the writer who wrote a screenplay on this wants to know more, just message me (or look on InkTip). Cheers, Elizabeth

Preston Poulter

Given your stated interests for women defying expectation, you might like my historical drama about the only two women to become WW II fighter aces, White Lily.

Available at your local comic store:

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Debra Kurtz

i recently wrote a western female driven that is winning awards on festivals circuit. I’d love the info from inktip thank you sincerely

Elizabeth Dickinson

You may need to join InkTip to submit (which costs something), but here's the lead - and good luck!

1) Seeking Low-Budget Female-Led Western Scripts (Lead 7543)

We are looking for completed, feature-le...

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Asmaa Jamil

Thank you for posting and one of the best things about this community is the support.

Elizabeth Dickinson

You're welcome, and I hope we'd all do this for each other :)

Carl Creighton
Website advice for screenplays

Hi friends! I’m looking to put my three screenplays and their supplemental materials on a website for people to see. Can you recommend a good free website service for this? Thanks! Carl

Daniel Husbands

I agree with Maurice Vaughan Your Stage32 profile is a great free way to have your screenplays seen. You can also use a free website builder and have additional information on their as well....

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William Martell

What people to see? I've been a professional screenwriter for 34 years now and I don't think anyone comes to my website to look at scripts. If I want people to look at my scripts, I usually query them...

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Amanda Toney

Carl, you’re in the right place! Make sure you put it up on your Stage 32 profile under your profile section. This way our community of over 1 million people and the thousands of executives we work with can see it!

Kiril Maksimoski

Got optioned via Script Revolution...also good place, especially for feedback is Simply Scripts...I was approached by a director for one of my shorts recently, I figured he saw it there...

Christopher Phillips

William Martell I like to watch your Film Courage interviews. Good stuff.

Maurice Vaughan
Stage 32 TV Comedy Logline Contest

Exciting news! Today begins Stage 32’s fourth monthly logline contest of the year, and it's a television comedy contest!

The top logline will be given a FREE CONTEST ENTRY to Stage 32’s 4th Annual Television Comedy Contest. And the TOP THREE LOGLINES will be entered to win the GRAND PRIZE at the end...

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Christine Capone
Sights and Sound

Hi All, do you think we should capitalize sights and sound in a script that's being submitted into competitions? Someone once said to me that it can be distracting. Thx!

Christopher Phillips

Dan MaxXx Interesting how he added extra spaces between some words. Gives a sense of pacing and makes the page easier to read.

Margaret Doner

I was told a number of years ago to capitalize AUDIO but just recently I was told that you no longer do that as it is distracting. So I stopped doing it, and I think it does read much more smoothly. I will say that keeping up with do's and dont's like that can be difficult at times.

Francisco Castro

Yes, Christopher Phillips/@DanMaxx, Shane Black's THE LAST BOY SCOUT was an excellent read.

Dan MaxXx

Christopher Phillips I dont think Black used computers to type then. Could be a typewriter thing. I noticed there are two or three spaces after period. lots of "orphan single word" sentences...

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Christopher Phillips

Dan MaxXx You're right. Just looked at an old article and he beat on the typewriter with two index fingers to get his screenplays out.

Maurice Vaughan
Red Carpet Roll-Out: May 2024’s New Educators & Execs at Stage 32!

Stage 32 is rolling out the red carpet in today’s blog for the new educators and execs joining our community.

You have direct access to award-winning industry executives and professionals who’ve written, directed, produced, filmed, developed, performed, and represented acclaimed projects like “Arri...

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Pat Alexander
Romantic Comedy Deadline Extended!

Hey friends! The deadline for the 3rd Annual Romantic Comedy Screenwriting Contest has been extended until Monday April, 29th! So now is the time to reach into your hearts and teach us a couple fun lessons about love with your scripts! Remember, you can always order the Feedback + Resubmission optio...

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Fran Harris
How cliche is your writing?

I’ll start. let’s talk about the elephant in the room.

Craig D Griffiths

Or the complete lack of communication. People. oils solve the obvious problem if they told people what they know.

E Langley

_____ is my middle name.

Phil Stubbs

The 30 minute chase/battle scenes in Super Hero films

E Langley

Beyond cliched dialogue, the brake squeak when cars stop that sound mixers add to nearly every vehicle, even new ones. Are there endemic brake issues? It's inane and annoying.

Too, the lack of creativi...

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Ben Henning

"No time to explain!" -- aka "the audience already knows so I'm not going to communicate this essential information to you"

Makes me groan every time.

Maurice Vaughan
Stage 32’s May 2024 Education Schedule!

This May, you’ll have the chance to learn from knowledgeable industry executives, award-winning screenwriters, producers, directors, showrunners, animators, podcast hosts, authors, script supervisors, attorneys, and representatives. Impressive creative professionals who have worked on or represented...

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Maurice Vaughan

I bought Anna Henry's "20 Steps to Planning and Writing a Memorable Scene" webinar today, Sydney Summers. Can't wait to check it out!

Jed Power

Do you have a link to "20 Steps....Maurice?"

Maurice Vaughan

Yeah. Here you go, Jed Power: www.stage32.com/education/c/education-webinars?h=20-steps-to-planning-an......

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Jed Power

Thanks, Maurice.

Maurice Vaughan

You're welcome, Jed Power.

Travis Seppala
Logline scoring?

Is this a new feature? Some loglines I posted this week have had a bunch of people scoring them on a 5-star scale... but I've got dozens of loglines that've been on my page for years that have never been scored. Wondering if this is some new thing?

Christopher Phillips

Travis Seppala that feature has been there as long as I can remember. 1-5 stars

Travis Seppala

Christopher Phillips OK, thanks. It's just weird that my stuff's never gotten voted on before... but the ones I put up a few days ago people are scoring.

Christopher Phillips

Travis Seppala I've noticed sometimes that if a logline is recently posted, it will show up in my feed. Otherwise, I would have to look for them on the site.

Preston Poulter

Travis Seppala The latest stuff shows up in your network feed.

Jonathan Millett
Intellectual Property

Who do we know that is/has a screenwriting agent that specializes in Intellectual Property? I wrote a feature screenplay that combines two franchises, one is a movie series and the other is a comic book series. If there's already a thread on this, I'm more than happy to delete my post.

Lindbergh E Hollingsworth

If you know whom owns the IP/franchises, you contact them for permission. If they do not reply or say “no” then you cannot move forward with this.

Dan Guardino

You should never write a screenplay based on material you don't have the rights to. An Agent won't help you try and sell it.

Christopher Phillips

Jonathan Millett Agents don't deal with optioning IP. Producers do. Sometimes writers if they can get it at a low cost. Usually, someone would dig up who owns the copyright and contact them to see wha...

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Maurice Vaughan

"You should never write a screenplay based on material you don't have the rights to." I agree, Dan Guardino. Unlike it's practice or for fun.

William Martell

That's not how it works. Because studios own the intellectual property, you can't legally use it in your screenplay. So there's no going to be a lawyer who can help you with this. How it works: Let's...

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Pat Alexander
Final Deadline Today: 3rd Annual Romantic Comedy Screenwriting Contest

Hey friends, today is the Final Deadline for the 3rd Annual Romantic Comedy Screenwriting Contest. So now is the time to reach into your hearts and teach us a couple fun lessons about love with your scripts! Remember, you can always order the Feedback + Resubmission option to get coverage within 5 d...

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Emily J
CONGRATS! 26 Meeting Requests Last Week!!! (4/23/24)

Hope everyone is off to a terrific week! I wanted to congratulate our fellow community members who had meetings requested through Stage 32 Script Services last week. We are thrilled about the opportunities for the writers who landed meeting requests with Higher Purpose Entertainment, Night Dove Pict...

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Maurice Vaughan

26! Congratulations on the meeting requests, everyone!

Jim Boston

Way to GO, everybody! Congratulations on winning those meeting requests!

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