Script University May 2025 Courses and Live Events

Check out this month’s course offerings led by Script University’s industry experts!

Script University has joined Writer's Digest University to create one-stop for all your writing needs! You'll find the same expert-taught courses and brand-new monthly webinars along with on demand content. Get started on your screenplay, prepare for competitions, learn how to become a professional script reader, and much more.

Join Jon James Miller, award-winning screenwriter, novelist, and professional story editor, to learn how to write a story rich with tantalizing visual descriptions that come alive through narrative techniques intended to excite readers and keep them reading. Jon will also show how to create a story premise that lends itself to cinematic translation, creating a movie in the mind of the reader, no matter what the genre. Writers will come away from this webinar with a visual shorthand they can utilize to make their screenplays jump off the page and actively engage the reader’s imagination.

Let Script University show you, step-by-step, how to create an electrifying treatment! We’ve made the anxiety-producing process of treatment writing simple with our ground-breaking approach to the form. By the end of this workshop, you will have a strong treatment and a solid log line for your screenplay that has been vetted by an industry professional.

This 12-week course guides students through the process of building a feature film script, starting with an outline and continuing through all the acts of your screenplay. The writing critiques in this course are tailored to develop specific skills needed to succeed as a feature film writer. You will get expert guidance on your writing along the way, and helpful self-tests allow you to reinforce your mastery of the lecture content.

This one-week intensive course focuses on the specifics of writing compelling action (description) and dialogue. At the end of this course, your expert instructor, Dave Trottier, will evaluate five pages of your spec script.

In this course, you will learn the tools professional screenwriters use to finish high-quality scripts under deadlines. By the end of this course, you will have completed and received professional feedback on a script for your drama pilot.

A strong series bible is a crucial sales tool for your series. This course will help you get your TV series ready for an executive by developing your series premise, honing your pilot, and writing your series bible.