Selling A Spec In 2026: What This Autumn’s Deals And The New WGA Contract Tell Screenwriters
Original scripts are still selling, with recent deals at Netflix and at Focus Features with Blumhouse Atomic Monster, while the
Start With The Ending: What Sean Baker’s Writing Process Teaches About Building A Screenplay
The Oscar-winning writer-director of Anora has described a process built on notes, Post-its, a living script and, above all, knowing
Austin Film Festival’s 25 Screenwriters To Watch: What This Year’s Class Says About Breaking In
The 2026 list honours writers with studio specs, festival-winning features, a reboot and an animation pedigree, showing how many different
The 2026 WGA Deal: What Screenwriters Won, What They Pay For And Why It Runs Four Years
Members ratified the new Minimum Basic Agreement with 90.4 percent support, securing a record 321 million dollar health fund infusion,
Ten Years Of The Black List Episodic Lab: How A Small Program Became A Pipeline Into Television Writing
Run with Women In Film and supported by the Golden Globe Foundation, the lab has trained more than 55 writers
Can AI Read Your Script? A Test Of The Coverage Tool Quilty Suggests Human Readers Are Still Needed
No Film School’s Jason Hellerman ran well-known screenplays through an AI analysis service and found buggy reports, weak story reads
AI Is Not a Writer: How the Guild Fought Over Machine Authorship While a Studio Announced an AI Actress for a Feature
The contract’s definitions, the pushback on digital twins and the July announcement of a film starring a synthetic performer frame
Writing It, Then Directing It: The Waldo Salt Winners and the Case for the Writer-Director’s Leverage
From Lake Bell to Jesse Eisenberg, a Sundance screenwriting prize has gone to people who wrote their own films, at
Writers Ratify a Four-Year Contract With 90 Percent Support: What the 2026 WGA Deal Means for Anyone Who Writes for Screens
Pay minimums rise 10.5 percent, page-one rewrites get a floor, health contributions go up and studios must notify the Guild
Seven-Figure Specs: What Four Sales Reveal About What Buyers Wanted, and Why the Lottery Odds Still Apply
From a reported $3.25 million thriller by an unknown writer to a romantic drama that attracted a star, the analysis
What Sells in a Contracted Market: A Los Angeles Manager’s Assessment of Procedurals, Genre, Micro-Dramas and the Case for Making Things Yourself
Raquelle David’s May 2026 post describes the worst stretch of her career and offers specific advice, with a commercial interest
How the Streaming Viewership Bonus Works: The 2023 Formula, the 2026 Improvements, and Why Residuals Decide Who Can Afford to Keep Writing
A bonus tied to how many subscribers watch a show changed the economics of streaming writing, and the new contract
From Finished Draft to Sale in Six Steps: Representation, Rewrites, Talent and the Difference Between an Option and a Sale
Edwin Cannistraci’s roadmap and Stacey Parks’s warning about packaging give working screenwriters a realistic sequence to follow Writers often picture a