Writing Resources

WORKSHOP RESOURCES
Looking for handout sheets from one of my workshops?

EDITORAL & CREATIVE SERVICES
Rates vary. Contact diana@dianabotsford.com for more information.

DEVELOPMENT WORKSHEETS
A variety of worksheets to help you in plotting and rewriting your work:

READ IF YOU WANT TO WRITE!
If you want to write, you need to read, and while the obvious locations such as bookstores and libraries serve their purpose, the following links can open you to wide world of free books, scripts, and more.

Prose

  • Project Gutenberg – download over 30,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPhone, Kindle, Sony Reader or other portable device
  • ManyBooks – Free eBooks for your PDA, iPod, or eBook reader
  • Scribd – Open library to publish and discover documents online –
  • Word Public Library – 400,000 PDF ebooks for download
  • Wowio – Public domain, free legitimate copyrighted materials & Comic Books

Screenplays & Teleplays

Ready to Stop Circling and Start Rewriting? If you've got a draft and a diagnostic full of red flags, you don't need more coffee and willpower. You need a plan, a structure, and a room full of writers doing the work alongside you.

The Screenplay & TV Pilot Rewrite Workshop runs July 11 through September 26, 2026 — twelve Saturdays, 2:00 PM ET, live on Zoom. Small group. Real feedback on your actual pages, every week. A six-phase framework that moves from structural diagnosis all the way through line-level polish.

You'll leave with a rewritten script. Not a half-finished revision. A rewritten script. Registration is now open.

Ready to Build Dialogue That Actually Works? All of this is easier said than done. (Yes, pun intended.) Which is why we do it together, live, with your actual characters.

Build-A-Dialogue is a free three-hour workshop — Saturday, June 6th, 2:00–5:00 PM ET, live on Zoom. No theory lectures. No homework. Just writing.

Hour 1: Voice. Hour 2: Subtext. Hour 3: Conflict. You'll leave with completed exercises, a Character Voice Sheet you can reference for your entire manuscript, and a Subtext Diagnostic for testing any scene in your current work. Registration now open.

  • SimplyScripts – links to hundreds of free, downloadable scripts,movie scripts, screenplays, and transcripts of current, classic and maybe a few soon-to-be-released movies, television, anime, unproduced and radio shows.
  • Google TV Script Collection – An extensive collection of U.S. & U.K teleplays and series bibles including both current series and classics.
  • Internet Movie Script Database – A wide variety of scripts in HTML format

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