Screenwriting Tribe 3P.M. - 5:ish P.M. September 14th Sunset Strip

PARTICIPANTS PLEASE READ:

Tribe workshop has been re-started after a one-year hiatus.

Our new location is the Badger and Jam standup comic rehearsal space: 8265 Sunset, West Hollywood. Up one flight of stairs, in back, above the courtyard.

$8 per person collected at start of workshop (either Venmo, PayPal [QR codes provided at workshop], or cash).
• We formerly had people pay through MeetUp, but MeetUp added an additional fee – so, we are having you avoid that fee by paying in person. The goal is to cover the expenses of holding the workshop. It's not a money-making venture.

Tribe was started in 2016.

• Tribe is writers and actors helping writers to polish their SCREENPLAYS.

Some who attend Tribe might be non-writer actors who help by reading characters, and practice their cold-reading skills. It's a fun time.

• A diversity of ages, life experiences, and voices, are helpful to have in the workshop. (Age 16, and older, please.)

👉 If you RSVP, but can't attend:
👉 Cancel your RSVP ASAP. You do so on this MeetUp page. It prevents writers from spending money to make copies of their script pages for you.

👉🏽 To sign up for having your script pages read by and get feedback from the group:
👉🏽 First RSVP. Don't sign up for pages without an RSVP.

👉🏻 If you sign up for pages, and change your mind:
👉🏻 DELETE your pages comment AND leave a post "Canceling pages."
👉🏻 This gives another writer time to prepare pages.

• Canceling pages does not cancel your RSVP.
If you ARE NOT going to attend, please: ALSO cancel your RSVP so writers aren't depending on you to read characters.

• BEFORE you sign up for pages: A, B, C, D...

A • (This doesn't currently apply, as we are re-starting the workshop after we took a one-year hiatus.) Participate in the workshop at least 3 times.

B • (This also doesn't apply for now, as we re-establish the workshop. But do order the books so we can get everyone to be as helpful to each other as possible. The workshop is all about writers helping writers.) OWN and study the three books:

1. Screenplay Repair Manual (Copies of this book are available for purchase at the workshop for $15, or on Amazon for $17.25.)
2. The Screenwriter's Bible
3. Dr. Format Tells All
   (This doesn't apply for now, either as we re-start the workshop.) 👉🏽**If you don't own the books, don't sign up for pages.**👈🏼
   • It's helpful to ALSO read a few books about TV writing, so you get various opinions.
   • If you are writing multi-cam sitcoms, learn the formatting for a multi-cam – which is not the same formatting as film and other TV scripts.

C • Have an RSVP.

D • Be one of the first 4 to sign up for pages.

• We workshop feature film screenplays, short film screenplays, and episodic, anthology, limited/mini series, serial series, and single cam sitcom screenplays, and now also multi-cam sitcom scripts.
(We previously didn't workshop multi-cam scripts. Writers may want to consider that multi-cam sitcoms are not as popular as they were ten or more years ago. This makes getting a sitcom produced even less likely - unless you are an established sit-com writer, or an established stand-up comic. But maybe you will be the person who is successful in getting a new sitcom produced.)

• WE DO NOT WORKSHOP SOAP OPERA, MUSICAL, NC-17, OR X SCRIPTS. (Yes, someone once brought in an X script to Tribe.😱)

• Please format scripts in industry-standard 12 point Courier font. See the Screenwriter's Bible, and the Screenplay Repair Manual.

• Take one script through the workshop at a time, from the first page to "The End."

• Own the material in the script. No plagiarism. The script has to be something you can copyright. (No lyrics, poetry, book excerpts, life stories, or other material to which you do not own the rights.)

• The workshop is as good as the participants make it.

The workshop is $8 per person. We are trying to keep the cost as low as possible. There are a variety of expenses we need to cover to keep the workshop going. Additional donations are welcome.

👉🏽Aim to write engaging scripts with broad market, investor & distributor appeal, and that may advance the careers of actors, directors, producers, and you.👈🏼

To sign up for pages: 1, 2, 3.

1. RSVP.
2. After RSVPing, type “pages” in the comments section.
3. Bring up to 12 pages of your script. Or, if it is a multi-cam sitcom, bring the entire episode.
   👉The workshop is meant for workshoping your script 12 pages at a time.👈🏼

Bring enough copies of your script pages for everyone who has RSVPd. (Google: Staples copy center location.) Print double sided copies to save $ and paper.

We write feedback directly on the pages, and also give verbal feedback.

Be prepared to assign your characters to be read out loud by various people in attendance, and assign one person to be the narrator of the scene headings and description.

We give verbal feedback after each set of pages.

As a writer receives feedback, they are to be silent, even if asked questions. Listen. Take notes. It's not a time to explain, or get defensive. Feedback you consider "wrong" could instead be helpful in giving you some excellent ideas. Welcome it.

Sometimes attend when your pages aren't being read. That will build your screenwriting skills in unexpected ways. And help other writers with their scripts.

Please stay for the entire workshop to help each other.

If you are not of the first 4 signing up for pages, you can type "backup pages" as a comment – in case anyone cancels pages.

After you workshop 12 pages (or the entire episode of a multi-cam) – before you bring in the next pages – READ THE ENTIRE SCRIPT to give it a wave of polish.

If you only have a few pages remaining unworkshopped, still bring in 12 pages = the remaining pages + pages before it = re-workshopping some of the previous pages.

Each script is the intellectual property of the writer.

“If you’re not early, you’re late.” – John Ritter