The Internet can provide the screenwriter with scripts that sold. While the copyright status of some of these scripts may be doubtful, sometimes the screenwriters themselves are generous enough to help educate you with their own product. John August, who wrote "Go" and "Big Fish", provides us with several drafts of his work.

Once most screenplays find their way online, they spread among the script Web sites like wildfire. The following links should fill your needs.

The best place in the real world to read scripts is the WGA Library at 7000 W 3rd Street on Fairfax in Los Angeles. They have tens of thousands of scripts from shows both current and past.

If you have a question about show business, please read my FAQ before you email me; I've probably already answered it, and I'll just tell you, "Read my FAQ." No, I will not help you get an agent, and if you want to find out who someone's agent is, read my FAQ. If you query me if I want to read your script, I will direct you to my screenplay evaluation service. On the other hand, if you have a nifty question I haven't answered before, I probably will answer it on my screenwriting blog. My eddress:

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