Scriptwriters Network

The first essential step to getting your script sold & made is getting it past the professional script reader. In a sea of 50,000 new screenplays written each year, how can you ensure yours rises above the rest and excites the eyes of an experienced threshold guardian? Our panelists have spent years reading thousands of […]

  Writing for Television Panel Speakers: Jane Espenson, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Once Upon a Time Cherry Chevapravatdumrong, Family Guy Jeff Greenstein, Will & Grace, Desperate Housewives October 12, 2011 Written by James Ganiere, Rio Vista Universal Q&A Session What is the structure/hierarchy of the writing room? Cherry As a staff writer, each year they […]

Sci-fi / Fantasy Screenwriters Panel October 8th, 2011 By Diana Caldwell The panel of Science Fiction/Fantasy screenwriters who gathered at Universal Studios on Saturday, Oct. 8 represented a range of writing experiences, from Mark Fergus whose films, “Ironman,” “Children of Men” and “Cowboys and Aliens” were mostly big studio pictures,the parlapanides Brothers, Vlas and Charley […]

Having written seven produced episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager, sci-fi writer Jimmy Diggs has sold more spec Star Trek scripts than any freelancewriter in the more than 40-year history of the franchise. A Vietnam veteran, Diggs got his break selling a pitch to TV producer Nicholas Corea for the […]