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Comedy Screenplay Contest -- FREE and AWESOME

Urgent Media--a great company and a friend of ScriptFaze--is helping to get the word out about a great new writing contest… You can peek at Urgent’s BLOG or go right to the CONTEST WEBSITE for more details, but in a nutshell they’re looking for kick ass family-themed comedy pilots… The contest is free and offers great perks, like $5000 to the winner and input/guidance from John Wells—whose writing and EP work includes The West Wing, ER, Shameless, and a ton of other shows. This contest isn’t widely advertised yet, so get your scripts in fast… It’s a real opportunity. Here’s the blip from the contest website:

The Alliance for Family Entertainment who have been involved with getting such shows as “Gilmore Girls”, “Everybody Hates Chris” and “Friday Night Lights” on the air are sponsoring a FREE contest. (Full Disclosure: UC is involved with this project! YAY!) They’re looking for comedy screenplays having to do with the modern American family.

The winner will receive $5000, guidance and input from John Wells, whose work includes ER, Third Watch and The West Wing.

Dust off that :30 minute screenplay you polished last year or finish up on the one you started a couple weeks ago. THIS IS WIDE OPEN AND READY FOR THE TAKING!!!!

Submit and additional details here: ComedyWriterContest.com

DEADLINE: October 28th at 11:59 am ET. 

 

Script Frenzy starts on WEDNESDAY

Hello ScriptFazers! I wanted to make everyone aware who isn’t that in just a few days SCRIPT FRENZY begins it’s third annual screenplay-in-a-month writing event. If you’ve never participated in Script Frenzy before, you have three days to prepare! We can’t recommend this event highly enough.

Started by Chris Baty, who also created National Novel Writing Month, Script Frenzy is the sister event devoted to movie and TV writing. Begun in 2007, Script Frenzy is totally free to the writer, and is all about positive encouragement and setting a deadline to get things done. For one month, participating writers are pushed, prodded, and generally encouraged to complete a 100-page screenplay in just 30 DAYS. As you progress, you are able to upload your finished pages and watch your progress meter bounce upwards toward the finish line. It starts April 1st and ends May 1st, and everyone who pulls it off definitely feels like a winner.

Remember—writing is rewriting. Often, the greatest hurdle is just getting that first draft written out on paper—and that’s what Script Frenzy is all about: Working quickly, meeting a deadline, and getting out a draft of your script that can be massaged and improved upon AFTER the event is wrapped. Some writers LOVE isolation, but I gotta tell yah—sometimes it’s nice to have a cheering section. When you participate in Script Frenzy, you’ll be invited to parties with other Frenzy writers, will have access to the event’s question-and-answer forums, and get all kinds of assistance, tips, and professional advice along the way.

So do it! If you’ve been thinking about writing a movie but never have, or you've been putting off finishing that action thriller you started in 2005—seize the moment. Or more specifically—seize APRIL!

Sign up for Script Frenzy, and get that first draft DONE: www.scriptfrenzy.org