Screenwriting is an exciting undertaking which allows you to give your imagination full rein while you sharpen your command of language. If you are thinking of embarking on screenwriting either as a new career or a as a hobby, there are some screenwriting basics that...

Most of the time, people think of screenwriting jobs as highly paid contracts for creating screenplays to be used in film features. Actually the world of screenwriting is a much broader arena and apart from creating movie scripts, there are other screenwriting jobs. (...)

Screenwriting is categorized as a form of creative writing but unlike writing a novel or a short story, the resulting product, the script, has other components and features that will take the work from paper to film. (...)

People who try screenwriting always harbor the hope that their work will make it to the big screen. In order to turn this hope into a reality, it is often necessary to write, rewrite, and review pieces, which were supposedly finished. (...)

Part of the attraction in pursuing screenwriting as a career is the expectation of a hefty salary. This expectation is not without basis because those who succeed in conquering Hollywood and the TV networks do make a fortune. (...)

Some people write well and want to do screenwriting but have had experience only in writing short stories, essays, poems or other literary works. They will find out soon enough that screenwriting is a vastly different undertaking from other forms of writing. (...)

If you have dreams of becoming a screenwriter and are eager to make these dreams come true, you have probably thought about whether or not you should go to school to learn screenwriting. Some people will tell you that going to school is a waste of time. (...)

Screenplays are written and read in what is basically a technical format with many prescribed features. A new writer is often guilty of the misconception that a good story expressed in dialogue is everything in screenwriting. (...)

Aspiring writers today can easily avail of screenwriting lessons. The options are now varied: formal schooling for a degree or a certificate, selected sessions and workshops from theater groups, online courses from colleges and finally, tutorials from the internet and...

One of the tedious aspects of screenwriting is the format that has to be used in standard scripts. The oddities in the arrangement of scripts are not easy to conform to with the usual word processors. (...)