PLEASE RT! If you were given a discount a few months ago because you placed in another competition, there are about 2.5 weeks left in this season's Finish Line Comp, so please enter. If you have placed in a comp this year and want a discount to enter Finish Line, please let us know! AFF, Shore, Page, etc...As always, we are looking for great pilots, screenplays & short film scripts!

Getting closer to the end of this year’s Finish Line Script Competition. Latecomer Submissions open! finishlinescriptcomp.com

You have to block out the noise. You have to invest in yourself. You have to do your research. You cannot believe any hype. Verify. Focus on yourself and creating an undeniable piece of material. The only way to make it is to get your script read by as many people as possible.

Open for Latecomer Submissions! $10,000 grand prize 6+ pages of actionable script notes. Free resubmissions 54+ industry Mentors will read & meet our writers One on One Mentorship This is Finish Line

Hard to believe these storied studios - Warner Bros & Paramount are gone. Here’s hoping Skydance does great things.

Happy Friday! We are in the final stages of Latecomer Submissions! Still time for notes, still time to resubmit new drafts (for free!) Still time to be in the running to win! finishlinescriptcomp.com

Everyone, including us, talks about rules for writing. Most importantly, instead of letting, “Am I doing this correctly?” guide you, Ask yourself, “What am I actually trying to say?”

Without emotional and narrative connection, your story won’t go anywhere.

Regular Submissions ending soon!

If you have a pitch that needs tweaking/practicing or you've never created a pitch before, we can help! Coming from someone who has sold many Film & TV pitches as a literary manager & including our recent legal drama to HBOMax, you're in good hands. Successful pitching is not just telling your story, it's how you tell it! finishlinescriptcomp.com/pit…

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We are open for Regular Submissions! Script entry only Entry w/script notes Script notes + Zoom 12 week mentor special Pitch session development Resubmissions are free! finishlinescriptcomp.com

Genuine connection, genuine interaction and genuine interest in you is incredibly valuable in this industry. Building that is the most important thing you can do if you want to be a filmmaker or screenwriter.

Writing craft is teachable and we endeavor to teach structure, tone, dialogue, etc when we give notes to a writer. However, the one thing we cannot fully teach is voice. This is personal, it's comes from you directly, it's cultivated over time, having read screenplays and watched movies/TV. It's also the element that will attract us most to your material.

How do you actually fund a movie? Everyone tells you to go and make your movie but how? How to get to the next Obsession or the very least produce your script and find distribution? Years ago we started providing script notes for my friend @hudsonphillips & @MirrorBoxFilms, who has been doing this for years & his films look like and feel they're made for millions. Luckily he's letting you in on some of his methods. Take them very seriously. This guy is on this 4th feature and knows what he's doing. finishlinescriptcomp.com/blo…

I was speaking to a writer yesterday, who asked how to help create tone in their thriller. Some ideas I shared: - Show The Bomb Early - Surprise lasts a second. Tension lasts as long as the reader knows something the character does not. - Start A Clock - A deadline turns ordinary action into pressure, without a single word of explanation. - Stretch The Worst Second - To make a second unbearable, make it long. Stretch the worst moment using the white on the page and let the reader feel every inch of it. - Keep The Threat Offscreen - What you don't show, the reader builds in their own head and they build something far worse than any description.

Everything takes so much longer than you think it will. Be gentle on yourself as you work on your rewrites and know that everyone has a time frame that's different than yours.