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Final Draft Awards Screenwriting Nominees Announced

December 3, 2015

Final Draft Writer App Featured in iPad Air Commercial

December 3, 2015

Final Draft & NYFA team for Big Break Pitch Event

December 3, 2015

After 11 weeks of hard work, rewrites, table reads, and intensive classes on the craft and business of writing for film and television, the Final Draft Big Break winners are near the end of their Fellowship at the New York Film Academy. The Fellows -...

Final Draft Meetup with Carey Hayes, Co-Writer of The Conjuring

December 3, 2015

10th Annual Final Draft Awards - Opening Montage

December 3, 2015

The 10th Annual Final Draft Awards

December 3, 2015

Our Big Break Was Exactly That...

September 13, 2015

Let me start by saying that I was late writing this blog. Not because it isn’t important to me, because it very much is, and I have so many great things to say about my experience with the Big Break Screenwriting Contest. Instead, I was late because,...

The Final Draft/New York Film Academy Fellowship

June 8, 2015

What happens after you win a screenwriting contest? For far too many writers, not a whole lot. Winners and finalists of the Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Contest have a very good track record for success, but the company wanted to do more to em...

How I Got My 1st Network TV Writing Job

March 18, 2015

There are more brain surgeons then there are professional television writers. I don’t know if that’s actually a true statement but it’s something I tell people and it sure does feel true. When I was 17 years old, in my mind, I decided to become a pro...