Welcome to Writer's Resources—your resources! This is the section you come to for how-to and formatting guides, an inspirational kick in the pants, and nifty icons and flyers. You'll find handy links to everything in the section there on the left, and here's a quick overview of each item on the list.

How To Guides

Screenplays • Introduction to Screenwriting • Screenplay Formatting Overview	Stage Plays • Introduction to Stage plays • Stage Play Formatting Overview
TV Scripts • Introduction to TV Scripts • TV Script Formatting Overview	Comic Books • Introduction to Comic Books • Comic Book Formatting Overview

How to Build Great Characters and Stories

Creating Great Characters • Cast your Characters Writing • Writing Action and Description • Writing Dialogue

Conflict and Outlining Plot • Creating Conflict • Outline your Script • “Hollywood Formula" Worksheet

Scriptwriter Bootcamps and Worksheets

The Young Writers Program Director, Chris Angotti, has put together a series of bootcamps and worksheets that can help writers of all ages develop their characters and stories. Check out these resources on the YWP Script Frenzy Resources page.

We've highlighted a few of these resources below to help you plan your scripts.

Four-Week Scriptwriting Bootcamp

In the next four weeks, our scriptwriting boot camp will teach you everything you'll need to know to tackle the great Script Frenzy challenge this April. Over the next month, you'll invent characters, hatch plots, practice writing dialogue, and even learn a thing or two about the mysterious art of script formatting.

Week 1: Choosing the Right Script for You and Developing Characters
In this week's boot camp, we'll help you decide what kind of script to write and introduce a surefire way to cast an amazing crew of characters.

Week 2: Creating Conflict and Outlining Your Plot
Get your characters off the page and into action in Week 2.

Week 3: What Makes a Script a Script?
Find out how to get from Page 1 to "The End" using dialogue, action, and description.

Week 4: Putting It All Together—Formatting Your Script
Script formatting is not as hard as you might think, and we're on a mission to prove it to you.

Scriptwriter Workbook

Complete this workbook to fully understand script concepts and effectively plan your own. (The most important pages are also included in the boot camp.)

How to Cameos: Articles by the experts

Outlining A Procrastinator's Guide to Surviving Act 2 by David Ross How to Get Started by Alan Swyer Know Your Story by Greg Marcks I Have the Best Idea for a Script!....Err, So Now What? by Beth Brandon Beginnings and Endings Five Ways to Start a Script by Nick Turner Five Ways To End With A Twist by Nicholas Turner Dialogue 5 Tips for Dialogue That Makes Strong Men Weep by Daniel Heath Reach for the Evocative Word by Lisa Drostova Thinking Outside The Plot: The Set Piece by David Warfield Scene and story Dynamic Scene and Action Description by Jill Chamberlain Top Five Reasons to Show Your Story Some Love by Lauren Gunderson The Three Most Important Things I Teach by Alex Epstein 12 Things to Keep in Mind When Writing an Ending by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb Three Secrets of Great Storytelling by Jill Chamberlain Midpoint—The Key to Cracking Any Story by Blake Snyder Five Building Blocks for a Rich Scene by Liz Lisle How to Make Your Scenes Dance the 'Wadoogee' by Hal Ackerman Building Satisfying Plots by Angela Paton After the Draft Surviving the Rewrite: Part One by Diane Duane Surviving the Rewrite: Part-Two by Diane Duane I Hear Voices by Fred Ritzenberg Revisions the Pixar Way: Part One by Max Brace Revisions the Pixar way: Part Two by Max Brace Tenacity. Determination. Grit. by Stephen Norrington

Structure and Format Who's Afraid of Formatting Part One Part Two by Stephen Norrington Quick Tips on Shorts by Will Bigham One-camera vs. Three-camera (and everything in between): The Five New TV Formats by Nathan Marshall Five Questions to Help Pilots Take Flight by Jonathan Abrahams Screenplay Structure: Three Acts & Five Points by Nathan Marshall Characters The Dreaded Middle: How to Get Out of the Doldrums by Tom Kealey Creating Character: Don't Be Boring by Melissa Hillman Grandma's Got a Gun or, "Who Are You Calling a Minor Character, Anyway?" by Daniel Heath 5 Tips on Making your Romantic Comedy Lovable…Er, Relatable by Lauren Miller Five Character-Defining Opening Scenes by Adam Kempenaar & Sam Van Hallgren On the Process Getting to Page One: A Producer’s Take On the Writing Process by Stephanie Watanabe Writing = Ass + Chair by Jeromy Zajonc Freedom from Fear by Lydia Cornell Catapult Yourself into Inspirationland by Beth Lisick Hot Tips on Writing a TV Script by Jennifer Arzt Forget About Writer's Block by Nina Bargiel The Best Part of My Day by Hope Larson Cameo: Animal, Vegetable, or Graphic Novel? by Carla Jablonski What's to Lose? by Betsy Franco Five Mistakes a Beginning Writer Should Avoid by David S. Goyer A Brief Primer On Things Not To Do When Writing by Ron J. Friedman & Steve Benich Five Screenwriting Pitfalls by Nathan Marshall Being a Professional Writer and the Power of Rewrite by Beth Brandon Writing Downhill by Daniel Heath Advice for Aspiring Screenwriters by Melissa Carter Comedy This Stopped Being Funny 3 Minutes Ago: Things I’ve Learned Writing Sketch Comedy. by Jon Wolanske Five Secrets for Improving Your Comedy Writing by Fred Rubin

Need a Lift? Others are on the Same Page as You!

You will not be hiking up a mountainous ream of paper alone! We will be with you each step of the way.

• Click here to read pep talks from Sandra Salas, Program Director, and fellow Script Frenzy 2012 Participant.
• Stop by the forums. Ask questions, give answers, try a word war, or discover a new way to procrastinate.