If you’ve ever been in a screenwriting class or workshop, you’ve probably come across the question, “How many screenplays have you written?” — I thought it might be fun to ask the community here.
With visitors …

Screenplay Competition Details
The Spring Screenplay Competition is the first of four seasonal competitions in 2010 focused on discovering the most talented screenwriters working within the feature-length medium.
Guidelines

What We’re Looking For
If you have the first 30 pages of your screenplay written, we’d love to read them! We’re now accepting submissions for the Strongest Story Setup Screenplay Competition – a competition where the screenwriters with …

The 2010 Screenplay Competition Series is made up of an exciting chain of competitions.

It’s for screenwriters interested in receiving recognition for their work, free coverage from Scriptxray.com ($125 value), and even potential connection with independent producers.

I was at Barnes and Noble last night when I picked up a copy of The Zombie Survival Guide for the first time — it’s been out since 2003.

I flipped through it, fascinated by the crude pictures and historical accounts of zombie attacks throughout the years, until I found this excerpt:

“Studies have shown that given the trauma of battle, the closer a human is to a zombie, the wilder his shooting will be.”

There are some exciting things going on here this weekend — for starters, you can get your screenplay read and covered starting at just $39! You won’t find that rate anywhere else — the standard industry rate starts at $60!

For those interested in participating in screenplay competitions, now’s the time. ScriptFrenzy is just hours away from beginning — life it’s sister challenge, the ScriptFrenzy screenplay competition challenges screenwriters to meet a certain amount of pages in one month.

It was about 3 in the morning when I suddenly had the urge to see whether or not I could find the 1984 documentary, Streetwise, online — it’s a film about the daily lives of …

As one of the most popular and well known approaches to screenwriting, the 3-act structure can be identified in just about every screenplay — mostly because the 3-act structure reflects a beginning, middle, and end, which …

I’m exploring the idea of doing a small screenplay contest here at Scriptxray, but I’m a bit stumped in one area in particular:
Prizes.
I’m interested in learning what screenwriting prizes you would be interested in winning …

A guest post by Trevor Mayes of ScriptWrecked.
Hallowed or Hackneyed?
When it comes to mainstream Hollywood story structure, there tends to be two schools of thought.
1) Hallowed — “There is a mystical reason we humans respond to …

With the success of the Apple App Store and iPhone, along with the introduction of the iPad last week, the screenwriting community can’t help but wonder when the first screenwriting app for the iPad will be …

During the past few months the scriptxray team has been busy with two major projects — building the xTeam and revamping the website.
So far, we’ve received well over 500 resumes from story analysts around the …

As most of you already know, Blake Snyder provided the screenwriting community with one of the most influential, non-fiction books of all time.

Why so influential?
Not only did Blake Snyder make the, oh so famous, “Blake …