Screenwriters: Win a year's mentoring with a professional screenwriter.

[Pale Blue Dot]

I have to be crazy to add more competition for a contest I will be entering, but here goes:

Enter the Stephen Susco Screenwriting
Mentorship Competition

Three winners get a one-year apprenticeship with "The Grudge" scriptwriter Stephen Susco to develop their ideas and projects into polished scripts ready for submission to agents.

This is a rare chance to learn from a master and get your story into professional form and in front of people who can make the difference between frustration and success.

Hollywood is calling, whether you’ve been studying the craft for years, or just have an idea or a book you think would make a terrific film and would like to have a chance to develop it yourself.

Susco (read his bio here), who has sold more than two dozen films and pitches to major studios, is one of the hot young writers in Hollywood today. Winners of this contest will be chosen based on the commercial viability and originality of their idea.

There's a $45 entry fee. If you're interested, an online application and details are available here:

https://www.writersroom.net/susco_wr/index.html

[msgadget]

1. I always wonder about screenwriting 'opportunities'

because there are so many of them. What's up with that? Why would a successful screenwriter take the time when s/he could offer the opportunity to a college intern? There's a lot of money to be made off aspiring writers because hitting the big time is much like winning the lottery.

OTOH, the opportunity to have one's work read and reviewed, even without a win, is mighty tempting.

[Pale Blue Dot]

2. This is to support the Bucks County Writer's Room in Pennsylvania

http://www.writersroom.net/pages/program.htm

I've taken classes there. It's a non-profit place for writers to gather and learn from each other. They sponsored a screening of "The Grudge" that featured a Q & A with Mr. Susco afterward.

[msgadget]

3. Thanks, it didn't look like the other contest sites.

[karl meltdown]

4. what if he or she is a ...

right winger or even worse a supporter of that tiny evil jewish state?

[Emboldened Chimp]

6. So, you'd let politics get in the way of a good opportunity?

[tjdee]

5. Thanks for posting this--I think I'll enter.

The deadline gives me something to shoot for.

I'm in the middle of a novel, but I'm finding that I'm getting bogged down in descriptive passages, and I suspect it's because I always see a movie in my fiction and not fiction in my fiction. Screenpays are more plot/dialogue heavy. Hmm.

[Pale Blue Dot]

7. For those of you who are thinking of entering this contest:

You might want to do what I did, and watch the Japanese version of "The Grudge", followed by Susco's American version. Then you might be able to make a better judgment as to whether or not he can be of any help to you.