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With its colorful man-made plants, this place speaks vaguely of a Willy Wonka tourist attraction. Assuming I don't go farther than that. Is this something I need permission to write in a script?

Hey forum, I wanna talk about pregnancies in screenplays. I've been editing one of my works and I found that a pregnancy would fill a lot of holes, and generally would give me a lot to play off of, but something is amiss. It seems that with pregnancy there is an issue of time. 9 months has to...

I've been toying with an idea for my 6th feature length screenplay and I was looking to put the logline and synopsis out there for you guys to rip apart. Here goes. The Islander: Sci-fi/mystery A barbarian man is sent through a portal to uncover the secrets of a mysterious civilization long ago...

I don't post here as often as I read, but that's about to change. This is my rough draft logline to a Sci-fi I've been working on since November 2009. Let me know if it hooks you. A selfish moon-born orphan is captured in an extraterrestrial invasion whose presence shatters the budding...

I've heard that at the very start of the screenplay, before the first slugline, you're supposed to have a FADE IN: Why is that? It doesn't seem to be needed. Have I heard wrong?

Hello fellows, are there any steadfast rules about FULL WORD capitalization in screenplays? I know it's usual to introduce your characters with caps, and props or sounds that are imperative to the screenplay, but what else would need caps? Is it better to capitalize characters the first time in...

Hello screenwriters, I have been copyrighting my works through the library of congress since I began, and I've always been curious about when it kicks in. It takes months to be filed with the library of congress and come back to you, so would you have coverage if your script was stolen and you...

Hello screenwriters. I've got a question regarding sluglines. I regularly read screenplays and I've seen it both ways but I'd like to gather some opinions. My question: Is it better to write the location, and then the specific room? or the other way around? For example: INT. JOHN'S BATHROOM -...