What is the New York Script Club?

Writing clubs abound coast to coast, some concentrating on specialized genres like New York Script Club (NYSC) with its goal to bring people together who want to delve into the world of screenwriting but who lack the knowledge, motivation, and support to get started.

If you are like Troy Alexander, creator of NYSC, you have a long list of ideas for great films, but you have no idea where to start. Troy has been seeking to meet people with similar interests, to co-write a movie one day. His search for the right collaborator was not fruitful, so he decided to start a club for “would be” screenwriters like him.

Screenwriting is the art of writing for film production. Although it is increasingly difficult to make a living as a screenwriter, tens of thousands of people try their hand at it every year. The capricious nature of the film industry makes it improbable that a complete unknown individual will find success. Producing a winning piece is hard enough, let alone getting it into the right hands.

The NYSC club enables folks with the desire, and maybe some good movie ideas, to meet and critique one another’s work to hopefully produce a finished product, and to uncover the means to get the work sold. The club is currently open to new members. Meanwhile, questions such as club rules, how many can join, club objectives, and others are still open to suggestion. NYSC is growing regularly by many new members, and meetings are held, where else? New York. Troy, at nyscriptclub.org offers updates on meetings so that anyone missing the Saturday meetings can get caught up with what’s going on.