Jane Espenson is a highly successful television writer (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica) and also a graduate of the Disney/ABC Fellowship program. She has excellent advice on your final submission materials on her blog here and here.
If you have any interest in improving your screenwriting skills, bookmark her blog immediately. […]
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The Disney/ABC TV Writing Fellowship has a critical requirement many writers haven’t come across before: you need to register your script before you submit it to them. Here are three commonly accepted ways to register your script.
Writers Guild of America, West - available in person at their Los Angeles office, by mail or online.
Writers Guild […]
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The Disney/ABC TV Writing Fellowship deadline is in one week. If you haven’t started, now is the time to write your bio, a very important part of the selection process. Last week I found a link to last year’s bios and today I found the bios for the 2005 & 2006 winners. You can check […]
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The Writers Guild of America West has its own monthly magazine for and about screenwriters called Written By. In the April 2007 issue, they had a great article about what you can do to make your spec script stand out. With the Disney/ABC TV Writing Fellowship and the Warner Brothers TV Drama Writing Program deadlines […]
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I just learned about this last night when I was at the Writers Guild panel on Writing For Video Games (which I will be writing up soon.) StoryLink and The Writer’s Store are holding free-to-attend screenwriting classes in Los Angeles in two days with some of the biggest names in screenwriting instruction:
Ellen Sandler (Emmy Nominee […]
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WGAWest’s Written By magazine has released its Summer 2007 issue and it’s full of SciFi TV Writing articles. Here’s the blurb from their site:
"Holy frak! His fans believe Battlestar Galactica creator Ron Moore is resurrecting the sci-fi genre, but this showrunner’s most devout followers are on his writing staff.
Plus investigate the history […]
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The Disney/ABC TV Writing Fellowship released a press release four months ago where they profiled the writers accepted into the program based on last year’s submissions. I’m not sure if these short bios were the ones submitted by the Fellows or if Disney wrote them, but they are a good example of how to write […]
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