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skillca.mp is a non-profit organization providing free skills training, reskilling and business development education globally, focusing on marginalized and underserved communities.
All of our classes and workshops are 100% free and open to everyone. If you can donate or volunteer, even a small amount goes a long way to help make these classes possible - you can sign up on https://skillca.mp/
**scriptca.mp:** Bring your screenplays or stage plays to our critique swaps, workshops, writer's groups and around the clock table reads marathon.
🎓 Free 8-week screenwriting bootcamp
🔈 Get help in active 24/7 voice channels.
📑 Advanced screenwriters lab for repped, produced screenwriters or members who are close to it and querying and placing in contests.
🏳️🌈 This is an LGBTQ+ friendly space.
♿ We embrace accessibility and respect our disabled writers!
*scriptca.mp classes are taught live on Discord at: https://scriptca.mp*
**wordca.mp:** Bring your novels, short stories, poetry or non-fiction to our daily live readings, critique swaps, workshops and writer's groups.
🎓 Free 90-day novel bootcamp
🔈 Get help in active 24/7 voice channels.
📖 We have an advanced fiction lab for agented, published authors or members who are querying and close to getting published.
🏳️🌈 This is an LGBTQ+ friendly space.
♿ We embrace accessibility and respect our disabled writers!
🗽 We produce the Voices Against Hate podcast, celebrating the personal stories of immigrants and migrants around the world.
*wordca.mp classes are taught live on Discord at: https://wordca.mp*
**filmca.mp:** Welcome beginning and experienced filmmakers. We are a filmmaking community focused on helping you take your concept from idea to production to final edit. Join our cinematography, directing, producing and post-production classes!
*filmca.mp classes are taught live on Discord at: https://filmca.mp*
**gameca.mp:** Welcome beginning and experienced game designers. We are a gamedev focused on helping you take your concept from idea to publishing. Join our weekly Unreal Engine Workshop!
*gameca.mp classes are taught live on Discord at: https://gameca.mp*
**toonca.mp:** Welcome beginning and experienced animators. We are an animation community focused on helping you take your concept from idea to storyboards to production and final edit. Join our free 12-week Animation Lab!
*toonca.mp classes are taught live on Discord at: https://toonca.mp*
About the Instructors:
Conor Kyle has written for Shudder's Creepshow (2019) and placed twice in the Nicholl Fellowship with his scripts “Peter and the Wolves” (quarterfinals, also Launchpad top 10) and The Tube (semifinals). His screenplays have also been featured on the annual Hit List, Young & Hungry List, Spec Book, and on Tracking Board’s “Best Writers of the Year” booklet.
Zack Kahn is best known for writing the 2017 horror film “Better Watch Out” (ranked in Rotten Tomatoes’ top 3 Christmas horror movies of all time).
He started as a writer/director/producer at Nickelodeon and has since written for “MAD,” “John Carpenter’s Suburban Screams,” Crackle, Yahoo!, and promos for numerous clients and mediums. Kahn has a Bollywood thriller in production and is developing a short-form comedy series. Additionally, he is a published author who has acted in several national TV commercials.
Rebekah Humphrey-Bullen is a UK based Middle Grade and Teen writer who won the Golden Egg Award in 2022 with her novel Echoes on Titan. She has a first look deal with Chicken House Books, a division of Scholastic Press founded by Barry Cunningham, best known for discovering the Harry Potter series.
Scarlet Chen is an award-winning Chinese-Canadian screenwriter, playwright, director, and stand-up comic. Her feature FORTUNE SPRINGS won first place in the 2018 UCLAx Screenplay Competition. After years of experience working as a PA, script supervisor and staff writer on high profile Chinese television series and Hollywood co-productions (KILL BILL, THE KITE RUNNER, LOOPER and IRON MAN 3 ), she sold her original Sci-Fi Thriller TV pilot DREAM RAIDER to HBO Asia. Scarlet's one act play A COFFEE FOR YOU will premiere at the 2025 Nanaimo Fringe Festival.
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The Writer’s Lab (Free workshop on Zoom & Discord)
·ÇevrimiçiÇevrimiçiThe Writer’s Lab (Free workshop on Zoom & Discord)
Enter the live meeting here:
Discord: https://scriptca.mp
RSVP for Zoom meeting inviteThe Writers Lab is an intensive workshop where Conor Kyle and other pro writers are available to help you work through specific problems with your story ideas, outlines, loglines, or pages from your novels, short stories, or screenplays.
Through one-on-one chats and group discussion, lab participants engage in a rigorous process that helps you get past whatever issues you encounter during the outlining and writing process.
About the Instructor
Conor Kyle has written for Shudder's Creepshow (2019) and placed twice in the Nicholl Fellowship with his scripts “Peter and the Wolves” (quarterfinals, also Launchpad top 10) and The Tube (semifinals). His screenplays have also been featured on the annual Hit List, Young & Hungry List, Spec Book, and on Tracking Board’s “Best Writers of the Year” booklet.
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Write a Novel in 90 Days Bootcamp FREE
·ÇevrimiçiÇevrimiçiIn the next 90 days, we will get you to your finished novel. Join us each week for a class and workshop. Our instructor Becky will guide you through from page one to final first draft.
Whether you’re starting with an outline or winging it, this bootcamp gives you the structure, accountability, and community you need to finally finish your novel.Week One - The Opening Pages and the Hook.
Sign up for the FREE bootcamp here: https://wordca.mp/bootcamp
enter the live meeting room here: https://wordca.mp
RSVP for zoom invite URL
About the Instructor:
Rebekah Humphrey-Bullen is a UK based Middle Grade and Teen writer who won the Golden Egg Award in 2022 with her novel Echoes on Titan. She has a first look deal with Chicken House Books, a division of Scholastic Press founded by Barry Cunningham, known for discovering the Harry Potter series while at Bloomsbury Publishing.```
Bootcamp Schedule:
Mar 29 Bootcamp Week 1: The Opening - Hook, Promise and SetupApr 5 Bootcamp Week 2: Scene Craft and Momentum
Apr 12 Bootcamp Week 3: Crossing the Threshold
Apr 19 Bootcamp Week 4: Escalation Engine
Apr 26 Bootcamp Week 5: Subplots and Supporting Cast
May 3 Bootcamp Week 6: Midpoint Shift
May 10 Bootcamp Week 7: Needs, Themes and Hard Choices
May 17 Bootcamp Week 8: The Net Tightens - Bad Guys Close In
May 24 Bootcamp Week 9: All is Lost
May 31 Bootcamp Week 10 Enter Act 3
Jun 7 Bootcamp Week 11: Twists and Revelations
Jun 14 Bootcamp Week 12: Resolution and Payoff
Jun 21 Bootcamp Week 13: Revising & Editing Techniques / Final Lab
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Script Bootcamp Week 1: Business of Screenwriting (Zoom, Free 8-week course)
·ÇevrimiçiÇevrimiçiENTER THE LIVE MEETING ROOM:
Discord: https://scriptca.mp
Zoom: RSVP for inviteJoin Conor and Nacho for a new workshop about the business side of screenwriting. We will discuss the practical aspects of working with producers and important legal concepts every writer should understand. What is copyright infringement and what options do you have if someone steals your idea? Is there any point in registering scripts with the WGA or U.S. Copyright Office? Do you really need to sign those restrictive submission release forms requested by producers? We will also discuss working with writing partners and how to negotiate option agreements.
Are you ready to write a new feature or TV pilot in 8 weeks? Sign the pledge here to save your spot in the bootcamp: https://scriptca.mp/bootcamp
May 16 Week 1: The Business of Screenwriting
- homework: develop feature idea or show concept & story engine, read 1 or 2 “comp” scripts with similar structure or toneMay 23 Week 2: Breaking the Story
- turn in final loglines
- homework: complete story beatsMay 30 Week 3: One-Sheets
- TURN IN ASSIGNMENT: story beats [receive 10 ScriptCoins]
- homework: write one-sheet (500-800 words synopsis)Jun 6 Week 4: Dialogue & Scenework
- TURN IN ASSIGNMENT: one-sheet (500-800 words synopsis) [receive 10 ScriptCoins]
- homework, write scene cardsJun 13 Week 5: Writing for TV vs Film
-TURN IN ASSIGNMENT: scene cards [receive 10 ScriptCoins]
- write first 10-30 pagesJun 20 Week 6: Pacing
- write next 10-30 pagesJun 27 Week 7: Writing on the Page
- TURN IN ASSIGNMENT: first act [receive 10 ScriptCoins]
- write next 10-30 pages[Jul 4 NO CLASS]
Jul 11 Week 8: Final Lab & Rewrites
- finish your script
- TURN IN ASSIGNMENT: first draft of your script by July 18 [receive 10 ScriptCoins]About the Instructor:
Conor Kyle has written for Shudder's Creepshow and placed twice in the Nicholl Fellowship with his scripts “Peter and the Wolves” (quarterfinals, also Launchpad top 10) and The Tube (semifinals). His screenplays have also been featured on the annual Hit List, Young & Hungry List, Spec Book, and on Tracking Board’s “Best Writers of the Year” booklet.This 8-week screenwriting bootcamp is free and everyone is welcome! However, if you are able to volunteer or donate, it will go a long way to help make these classes possible! You can sign up on our website: https://skillca.mp
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