Stop Screwing Around and WIN Your Next Screenplay Contest!: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Winning Hollywood's Biggest Screenwriting Competitions

Want to win your next screenplay competition?


You’ll need more than a good idea. You need to know exactly what contest judges—and Hollywood producers—are looking for.


Written by a top-tier contest founder and veteran writer, this book teaches:

• How to stand out in the first 5 pages

• The fatal flaws judges see again and again

• Strategies for making your script competition-ready


If you’re serious about winning, this is your playbook.


All you need to know about writing a screenplay that will WIN a reputable script contest.
The author Robert L. McCullough has nearly 300 produced script credits and is a founder of The Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards. He and his team read nearly 2,000 scripts each year, and he knows what it takes for a writer to win the big prize.

With a Master's Degree in Screenwriting and a long professional career in which he has helped fledgling writers to become prominent Hollywood producers and showrunners at every major studio, Bob now reveals the principles of writing screenplays that win big in the world of screenplay contests.

10 short no-nonsense chapters show exactly how to write a screenplay that wins major competitions and attracts serious attention from Hollywood studios and producers.

Read this book--or listen to the audiobook--and you'll write a screenplay that can be your ticket into the world of highly-paid Hollywood professionals. If you're serious about your screenwriting, then you're serious about seeing your scripts produced.

This book delivers the point-by-point essentials behind every successful screenplay and shows you how to demonstrate the professional expertise that will get your scripts noticed. It's a quick, concise read that gets to the bottom line with an irreverent no-nonsense approach to putting your writing on a level with Hollywood's working professional screenwriters. Making movies is a complex matter that is so difficult that very few people do it. And it all starts with writing the script, an equally challenging and complex task.

Buy this book now...and tomorrow you can be writing a script that WINS contests.