It was a little over ten years ago when I started my new job as a tech writer for a large, North American telecommunications company. I was marveling at the work of one of the html coders who said to me, “This is easy. You can do this.”

With a little help from FrontPage, in the early hours of September 6th, 1998, I uploaded the site to Simplyscripts.home.att.net. It wasn’t until a couple of years later that I finally got the domain Simplyscripts.com. You can see a late 2000 version of the site at archive.org – here. If you are curious about the origins of SimplyScripts, you can check out and interview Henrik Anttonen did about five years ago for currently hibernating Voice Over web magazine. Over the years the site has written up in places like The Guardian, AMC and Entertainment Weekly. But the best news I get is when I get an email from someone who has had their work options, sold or produced.

Thanks to everyone who has helped make the last ten years of running the site so much fun, entertaining and interesting. – Don

Did a major cleanup/cleanout of the Movie Scripts page. Most of the links should, like, actually work.

Thanks to Donovan and Daily Script read this May 6, 1998 Full Pink Draft of Lake Placid.

Thanks to Estefan for the heads up on this draft of The Producers from The Film Archive.

They are both on the Movie Scripts page. – Don

Please check out Movie Poet. Each month, they run a free online five page screenplay contest. On the first of each month a new contest is announced. During that month, you can enter your script. During the next month, you can read, vote, and comment on all the entries. Finally, during the third month, the results are announced.

The goal of the site is to help writers improve their craft, celebrate our best work, and connect writers and their scripts with filmmakers.

The September contest theme has been announced. Scene in Reverse – Your story must be told backwards. Each new scene must occur in time before the previous scene and your script must contain at least three scenes. Head on over to Movie Poet and give it a go. – Don

Over on the Unproduced Scripts page are 35 new or revised original scripts for your reading pleasure. Among them are three episodes of Scarefest 2. – Don

Romantic adventures of Manhattan girl, Mark Zukerberg Facebook movie, Foul mouthed 7th grade teacher, The Boys comic adaptation, and big city cop turns small town sheriff.

Over on the Unproduced Scripts page there is Feedback by Nicolas out of Austrialia. Feedback is a dramic feature wherein a young couple’s life is violently disturbed by an internet transaction. They are gradually swallowed in a spiral of violence and madness. If that is not your fare, there are another 26 scripts that may strike your fancy. – Don

ScriptGirl sales report for week ending August 22nd.

A good girl reinvents herself as the school slut, a married couple tries to rekindle the romance with disastrous result, DC Comic Sleeper adaptation, intelligence officer falls in love with villainess, estranged dad and son have baby boys at the same time and middle aged man faces off with underage girl.

Thanks to Donovan and Daily Script there are three drafts of Beetle Juice. In addition to the early Michael McDowell draft already on the ‘net, there are two Warren Skaaren drafts now up. Check them all out on the Movie Scripts page. – Don

Joblo.com has scored an undated, unspecified draft script of The Dark Knight (pdf format) by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan (story by Christopher Nolan & David S. Goyer based on the character created by Bob Kane). – Don