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.
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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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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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Two weeks ago, the director of the Disney/ABC TV Writing Fellowship spoke in Los Angeles at a Screenplay Lab event. One of the writers who attended reported back on the TVWriter.com message boards with advice on the Personal Statement that is a necessary part of the submission package. They said the director is looking for […]
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SciFi.com’s SciFiWire has the winners list for the 33rd Annual Saturn Awards. The Saturn Awards honor the best in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror in Film and Television. The interesting part of the list for writers is seeing what shows/films you should be paying attention to. ‘Heroes’, ‘Battlestar Galactica’ and the film ‘Superman Returns’ locked […]
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