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← The four doors

You have an idea and no pages.

“No pages yet? Good. Sit down, open the book, and we start at the sentence.”

Don Paco, at the door

Don Paco, illustrated in the Scriptageddon storybook style

You are standing in front of a door with nothing in your hands. That is not a problem — it is the cheapest moment in the whole process to be wrong. Everything behind this door is free, and none of it asks you for a draft you have not written yet.

  1. 1Answer the riddle firstPut your idea into one sentence and let the Logline Lab tear at it. If the sentence does not hold, the screenplay will not either — and you just saved yourself three months.
  2. 2Take the class you are missingStructure, character, dialogue, scene work, the business. Free, in order, no account required to read it.
  3. 3Write ten pages, not a hundredTHE FIRST TEN grades an opening on its own. Ten pages is enough to find out whether the voice is there.
  4. 4Take the paper with youFormatted templates and beat sheets, so the format stops being the excuse.

Before you go

Nobody here will tell you the idea is good. An idea is not the thing being judged — the execution is, and it does not exist yet.

Wrong door? It happens. Try another.

You have a draft.Pages in handTurn the pageIt is as good as you can get it alone.Ready to be seenTurn the page

Late, late. Pick one — you can always come back and take the other.