Free Screenwriting Course for Beginners

The free screenwriting course starts with a small writing task: turn an idea into a logline that explains who the story follows and what is at stake. As you study screenplay structure, you look at how a character's choices can change the direction of the plot. You move from a beat sheet to a treatment and outline, so you can see what each planning tool helps you decide before writing a scene.

Once the story has a shape, the lessons move into script formatting, dialogue, and scene construction. You consider how much information can come through action and how to tell when a line of dialogue is doing too much work. The course also shows you what a table read can reveal and how to use feedback when revising a draft. The final lessons cover pitching so you can explain the story and its central conflict to someone who has not read it.