“Life can’t ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer’s lover until death—fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.”

--Edna Ferber

At Script Alley, we understand that committing to the Writing Life is serious and brings with it brilliant satisfaction, heartbreaking frustration, and hopefully a long and fruitful career. This page is dedicated to providing tools and resources that will help you maintain your Writing Life.

As a professional, more time is spent writing than taking meetings or searching for an agent. Learning to take notes and work with deadlines are just as vital to your long-term career as coming up with that inspired idea and getting it down on paper. In addition to receiving notes and advice that will allow you to strengthen your work, we give our clients a better understanding of screenwriting as a whole and cultivating good writer’s habits that will take you from your first script to your twentieth.

We welcome you at any stage of your writing process.

In our experience, writing under pressure can often bring out your best work. Below you’ll find, among other resource links, a collection of top-level contest deadlines, programs, and other opportunities to get your work out into the open.

Approaching Deadlines:


Slamdance Teleplay
www.slamdance.com
Final: September 5, 2008

American Zoetrope
www.zoetrope.com
Final: September 2, 2008

E-mail admin@scriptalley.com if you have a contest or program to recommend.