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About
ScreenwritingCommunity.net
ScreenwritingCommunity.net was created by Bill Donovan, who saw a need to connect aspiring screenwriters with the services you need to succeed.
ScreenwritingCommunity.net is home of the DeepScript Professional Developmental Analysis and Rewrite Roadmap, the fast and deep online screenplay analysis service that goes far beyond coverage, providing story, structure, and pacing analysis, character development, dialogue feedback, a prioritized rewrite plan, and a scene-by-scene review. You no longer have to wait days or even hours for high-level script analysis. Just upload your screenplay, take a coffee break, and DeepScript will deliver by the time you’re back.
This site also offers what we believe is the most thorough and comprehensive screenplay proofreading service available anywhere. Don’t let the low cost fool you: this is gold-standard, industry-standard proofreading. It puts line-by-line margin notes into your Final Draft file, accompanied by a report explaining every edit – and delivers the results to your email inbox in minutes.
Then, once your screenplay has been rewritten to the best it can be and you’ve accepted the proofreading edits, we take the grunt work out of creating a marketing package with three services:
- Six loglines, one in each of the trending patterns used for recent screenplay sales;
- An industry-standard, concise synopsis of your screenplay; and
- A full marketing package: queries to producers and agents/managers with your logline embedded, your synopsis, a one-sheet, and an explainer on how to use them.
Special bonus for buyers of the marketing package: a new 20-page, deeply researched e-book, “How to Market Your Screenplay in 2026.” It covers virtually every way to get your work into a producer’s or agent’s hands – and what not to do.
And don’t miss our screenwriting help books.
About Bill Donovan,
Editor and Manager
Bill Donovan is the former editor and publisher of Creative Screenwriting Magazine; former executive producer of the Screenwriting Expo; the former manager of two annual screenplay contests, a scene-writing contest, and a logline contest; and the producer of 10 educational DVDs for screenwriters.
He is the author of five reference books for screenwriters, including Sell Your Screenplay – The Directory of Producers, Agents, and Managers Who Will Look at Your Unsolicited Query or Script, with 2,000+ copies sold.
He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Screenwriting and Filmmaking from the University of Southern California.
He is also a former news reporter and editor with the Associated Press, daily newspapers, and trade journals, and won or co-won five national business journalism awards.
Two of his own spec screenplays won first prizes in three student screenwriting competitions at USC. He has had agents represent his screenplays twice (but, alas, no sales).
The Origin of Script Readiness Reports
For several years, Bill provided screenplay and teleplay story analysis and proofreading services to screenwriters. He helped writers improve well over 100 screenplays and teleplays.
Clients’ testimonials about his story analysis and proofreading, many of them unsolicited, can be seen on the Bill’s Testimonials page.
That work was rigorous and intense, but the pay was low per hour. At the same time, $100+ for proofreading or $200+ for both proofreading and story analysis was a lot of money to an aspiring screenwriter.
So, Bill created the Script Readiness Report app to do the proofreading part better, much faster, and at a tenth of the going rate for screenplay proofreading.
