These calls are amazing, not only for new members to meet other members of the community. And see how their lives have changed since joining. Link: New Member Welcome and Coaching But you can also bring your pages and have them read in a table read and get coached live by yours truly. If you've been looking for community and feedback, we gotchu fam! Drop your name below and pages if you want! We look forward to meeting you and welcoming you on board!

Welcome to The Writer's Forge. You're here because you want to write characters that actually work. Let's get you a win right now. Step 1: Use the Primal Forge GPT. This is why you joined. Open the Primal Forge. Paste in your main character. In 15 minutes you'll know their wound, their lie, and the small life that's keeping them stuck. You'll walk away with a character blueprint you can use tonight. 👉 Primal Forge GPT Step 2: Introduce yourself. Drop a quick post in the community: → Where you're from → What you're working on → What movies and characters do you absolutely LOVE. And what's the ONE thing about your character that's driving you crazy. And what do you LOVE about them? Let us know. We read every single one! Step 3: Jump on a live Agent Readiness Challenge. Bring your first five pages and let's see where you are on your writing journey. Find it here: Agent Readiness Challenge Show up for yourself and build some accountability. Bring pages to a table read. Hit a coworking session when the blank page is winning. This community works because the people in it do. 🔜 Coming soon: The 7-Day Great Character Challenge. A step-by-step rebuild of your protagonist from the inside out. It's in development now. Watch the Classroom. You're already inside. Go use the GPT. Show up for yourself, for your talent, for your characters. And do the work with us. Now that you're here, remember: You never have to face the blank page alone!

Your script has been "almost done" for how long now? Six months? A year? Three years? Here is the thing nobody tells you about finishing a screenplay. It does not get finished because you finally feel inspired. It gets finished because you finally focus the f up and power through to the end. And then the pesky rewrites. Without a deadline, you can be dead in the water. I once had to call my writing partner and tell him he had to give me a deadline on something because I wasn't working on it, but I thought about working on it all day. And he'd made the mistake of telling me, oh just finish it up whenever. So he told me next Thursday and next Thursday, it was done! That is what a script competition is actually for. A script competition can be your "next Thursday." Forget winning. Forget the laurels. Forget whether the contest "matters" or whether the judges "get" your work. None of that is the point right now. The point is a date on the calendar that you cannot move. Pick a comp. Mark the deadline. Now your draft has a job. A few real ones with real runways: Austin Film Festival. May 27, 11:59pm Central. Two days. If your feature is in shape, hit send. Tubi x Black List Horror Initiative. Open through June 30. One Black List evaluation gets you eligible. Tubi produces the winner. Scriptapalooza Fellowship. Final deadline July 1. Mentorship, not just laurels. Five weeks to get one script genuinely ready. Big Break, PAGE Awards, Shore Scripts. All have summer windows. Look them up. The number of writers in this community who have a script that is 85% there is enormous. The number who have a finished, submitted draft is much smaller. The gap between those two groups is not talent. It is a deadline. So here is the ask. Drop a comment below. Tell us: 1. Which competition you are entering 2. The deadline 3. The script you are sending Public commitment. We will check in. You do not have to win. You have to finish. More on the full comp calendar next week. For now, post your next Thursday.

When I asked Primal Forge GPT about my screenplay, it came up with this: A coming-of-age story that arrives 30 years late, disguised as a rugby reunion comedy. And this: After an injury and loss unravel her life, a woman returns to the rugby team she left behind decades earlier and discovers the men she thought had rejected her had been protecting her all along. I added this line: She learns that sometimes the worst thing that can happen to you is the best thing for you. Because that is what kept me going as I recovered from my injury and life unraveling into something surprising. And thanks to this amazing group, the guidance given and the tools available, I just finished my first screenplay in record time and without the emotional blockages I had when trying to fit in the "Hero's Journey" structure. I followed the "Wound-Lie-Reveal" structure that @David Stem created, and it was exactly what I needed! I have been working on this as a memoir for decades, encountering lots of emotional upheaval. I previously made a documentary film about the rugby players, and my agent said to cut my stories out. Now I have completed a feature film screenplay that I truly enjoyed creating and hope others will enjoy reading and, fingers crossed, watching. I am living by the words of Hunter S. Thompson, a friend to and client of my rugby brothers: "Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming 'Wow! What a ride!'" This has been such a wild ride, and I am so grateful to be here!

I’ve been working on a pilot that is near and dear to my heart . This is based on a character and story my dad created in the 60’s! I’m an artist and voice actor so writing is new to me and I’m excited!!!