Please pick the logline you like best. (One that you would scroll and see and say - "Yeah, I want to watch that!") Feel free to suggest changes or create a new one altogether.

Hello OBS Family! David Byrd has generously donated my screenwriting class to two OBS members. Yes, it's FREE. To match his kindness, I'll offer two additional spaces for a total of four participants....

THANK YOU ALL. Our members have tremendous talent and passion for this difficult craft. There is a need for telling OUR stories. Let's all keep at it and push to make those stories GREAT.

Thanks to OBS and everyone's help to make me become a better writer. In the last couple of months I won Finalist in the Harlem International Film Fest, and Quarterfinals in Emerging Screenwriters Com...

I just applied. Thanks, Sandra!

Hello Get Out Fam, I hope you all are doing well and working on exciting projects. The Kinsman Quarterly has a contest for BIPOC authors. It's not a screenplay contest, but they are looking for submis...

@christopherharmon Yeah, I could relate. Even though my mother was the daughter of a sharecropper and my father did nothing but manual labor his entire life, I, like thousands of black people, have sp...

I might be in the minority here, but I loved that AF was set amongst the Black Elite. These folks exist but aren't seen very often by the rest of us. I hated that OUR KIND OF PEOPLE got canceled so fa...

Until a film is released, most of the copies of the screenplay in circulation are watermarked and typically a "leaked" version. So that we don't get in trouble with the people who generously give us ...

I've put in a request to see if we can host a few episodes and some scripts on our site. Will keep you all posted.

@jones-lisa-hgmail-com YES! It was abundantly clear why each character behaved the way they did. I'm hoping there's a season 2 because I'm dying to know what happened to Mabel's baby daddy. LOL!

Excellent Facebook post! Thanks for sharing, Christopher, and bringing it to our attention. Another resource are the free books in the OBS Drive Library. We should always check this file before spendi...

A link on the OBS FACEBOOK page shows some books that will help us as screenwriters. If buying is not in your budget, the authors usually have podcasts or Youtube presence that we can see free.

About a month ago, a writing mentor of mine was hired to write a movie project. I was honored he hired me to do notes for him. During a discussion of notes on his story we started talking about John T...

Hello Everyone! Writers on the Verge is out. There steps in a new writers program. Opened today; deadline March 7th. Do your due diligence and read over the criteria. EDIT: WHAT MAKES 4-ACT STRUC...

My name's Ron, and I'm a drama/dramedy writer who loves creating character-driven stories and exploring complex relationships between an ensemble cast. Whether it's a family drama, a thriller, or a sc...