Agent Ransack Search directories and files on your computer. Best feature - you can save and print your search results.
Directory Print Great program for saving or printing a list of your files or directories.
Post-its for your computer!
Celtx - a free program for screenplay formatting.
Hero's Journey:
Hero's Journey
The Adventure Begins
Hero leaves his family or land and lives with others
Supernatural Help for Heroes
Hero Must Prove Himself
Hero's Birth
The Lost Soul Archetype
Hero Archetype: Wanderers or Lost Souls
Special Weapon of the Hero
Condensed Explanation of Stages of the Hero
The Hero's Journey : Summary of the Steps
Interviews from People in the Film Industry:
Screenplay Development: How the Industry Really Works (Jeff Teitelbaum)
Screenwriting in Real Life (Michael Snyder)
Screenwriting ABCs (William Pace)
Ira Deutchman, film producer, President of Redeemable Features
Bill Lundy, Chairman Emeritus of the Scriptwriters Network, interview "Ten Common Myths about Scriptwriting"
Loglines:
How To Write A Hook Line Or Logline
by Michelle Mclean
Writing Loglines that Sell
by Jonathan Treisman
Writing Log Lines for Screenplays A Step-By-Step Guide
, Joe Lam
How to Write a Film Logline
By artsgirl, eHow Editor
How to Write a Great Logline for Your Screenplay
How to Craft an Effective Logline for your Screenplay
And make sure and take advantage of my free service to revise
your logline
Movie Websites:
IMDB - Internet Movie Database - this is the best way to locate a movie.
Yahoo Movies Find movies and showtimes.
List of Best Movie Websites
Research Resources:
Archive.org
Your first stop to search for anything
Internet Public Library
Wikipedia
One of the best Free online Encyclopedias
Find facts
DMOZ
Wide variety of links
REF DESK
Search Engine links to tutorials on how to do better searches, as well as links to best search engines, and searches by topic
Essortment
Free Online Articles on Health, Science, Education
Ezine Articles
132,811 Expert Authors Sharing Their Best Ezine Articles
All Experts
Ask an expert a question (yep this is free!)
Score
Get a free mentor
States
Has links to every official sites for each state in America
References
Reference links to Law, History, Libraries, Government, etc.
Free Press
Find local newspapers for many towns in every state and even around the world.
Newspapers
Library Spot
Plenty of Library links
Black Vault
Largest free resource in the world for declassified government records
Librarians Internet Index
Weather.com
find out the weather for the locations you have your story set in!
Gov Consumer info
Merriam Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus
Don't leave home...don't go online without it ;)
Screenplay Competitions:
Nicholl's Fellowship Competition
Bluecat Screenplay Competition
Screenwriters' Websites:
Michael Hauge
Barry Pearson
John Truby
Charles Deemer
Linda Seger
Robert McKee
Screenwriter Blogs!
Scripts:
Excellent Site for Free Scripts
Drew's Script-o-Rama - he's assembled a lot of Free Scripts! He even has some shooting scripts!
List of places to find script for free online
Screenplays for You
Selling:
Length of Screenplay helps it SellBy James Vektor
Secrets of the 3 Minute Pitch
Conquering the Dreaded Synopsis, by Lisa Gardner
Preparing to Pitch Your Screenplay to a Studio, From Dummies
Questions Every Producer Has About Your Screenplayby Hal Croasmun
Make sure and check out my logline links because they are an important part of selling a screenplay.
Sites you can use to Search for Screenwriting Articles:
Writer's Store Expert Series Articles Fantastic articles here on Screenwriting!
Hollywood Script Articles
Raindance Articles
Writing:
How to Write Descriptively
Descriptive Writing
Good tips on how to write Descriptively
How to Write Clearly so People Understand what You're Saying!
Find Your Writing Voice
How to Write Concisely
Online Writing Assistance
Sentence Diagramming
How to Research What You Want to Write About
How to Outline
A Guide To Writing in English: Easily Confused Words
Rhetoric
Purdue Writing Tutorials
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