What is The Screenwriter’s Forge?

The Screenwriter’s Forge is a Skool community offering live coaching on members' script pages from screenwriter J. David Stem. Stem wrote the screenplays for The Rugrats Movie and Rugrats in Paris: The Movie, and cowrote the screenplay for Shrek 2.

How much does The Screenwriter’s Forge cost?

The Screenwriter’s Forge is free to join on Skool, with paid tiers inside, read 31 Oct 2026.

How many members does The Screenwriter’s Forge have?

The Screenwriter’s Forge lists 1,067 members, read 31 Oct 2026.

How has The Screenwriter’s Forge's membership changed?

From 688 members on 24 Aug 2026, our first reading, to 1,067 on 31 Oct 2026: up 379, or 55%.

How does The Screenwriter’s Forge compare with other reselling and flipping communities?

The niche median is 590 members. Pricing benchmarks by niche.

What do you get inside The Screenwriter’s Forge?

The Screenwriter’s Forge publishes 18 course modules, 8 courses, 1,150 posts, 3 admins. Communities with the most course content.

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The Screenwriter’s Forge review

The Screenwriter’s Forge has grown 55% between 24 Aug 2026 and 31 Oct 2026, by its published member count. It is free to join, with paid tiers inside.

A review on the numbers, not an opinion: nobody here has joined The Screenwriter’s Forge, and nothing below is a verdict.

The Screenwriter’s Forge is a Skool community offering live coaching on members' script pages from screenwriter J. David Stem.^[1] Stem wrote the screenplays for The Rugrats Movie and Rugrats in Paris: The Movie, and cowrote the screenplay for Shrek 2.^[2] He also lists Jimmy Neutron and Disenchanted among his credits, and says he built the group to help writers stop guessing and think like professionals.^[1] The Skool group was created in September 2025.^[1]

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Members: 1,067
Published price: Free to join, paid tiers inside
Members, last 29 days: +343; 2 Oct 2026 to 31 Oct 2026
Rank by members: #1,596; of 6,076 sellers listed here
Size rank in niche: #77; of 264 sellers listed in reselling and flipping, by published members
Check the Course score: 92; A, very strong
Niche: Reselling and flipping; 312 listed here
Created: 12 Sept 2025; Skool publishes this date
Readings: 16; since 24 Aug 2026

About The Screenwriter’s Forge

Its main tool is The Agent Test, a diagnostic Stem says he trained on how he coaches openings, which checks a writer's first 10 pages for Voice, Character, Premise, World and Breaking Point.^[1] Members can also hear their pages performed at live table reads, with feedback from Stem and other members on what is working, what is not and how to fix it.^[1] Stem's Skool profile describes him as founder of The Writer’s Forge, coaching aspiring screenwriters.^[1]

Sources

Skool listing: skool.com/the-writers-forge, as collected 23 Sept 2026
Other: studiobinder.com, retrieved 30 Sept 2026

Compiled by Check the Course from the sources listed, to the best of our ability.

What the listing describes

NicheReselling and flippingFormatMentorship or coachingIncludesTemplates and resources

Read from the listing’s own words: what is offered, never how well.

What is inside

Course modules

Courses

Posts, all time

1,150

People running it

Counts published by The Screenwriter’s Forge on its own page, read on 31 Oct 2026: how much is included, never how good it is. Listed as run by david-stem-7380.

How we knowSourced & dated

Observed on 31 Oct 2026 from Skool source page archived copy 760d11e5a7cc.

Observable monthly ceiling

Not calculated

This community is free to join, with paid tiers inside. The readings record the free join price, not the prices of the paid tiers, so no ceiling is calculated.

Against the reselling and flipping niche

Percentile among the other 311 reselling and flipping listings here, each seller counted once for size.

Size71st

smallestlargest

Held at $7 per month in each of the 9 readings that published a price, from August 2026 to 3 Oct 2026.

Check the Course Score

92AVery strong

Ahead of 92% of the 13,558 Skool communities we track, including ones without a page here, on the measures below, each read from a figure The Screenwriter’s Forge published itself.

Size 53% of the scoreahead of 82%
Growth 27% of the scoreahead of 91%
Track record 20% of the scoreahead of 42%

An algorithmic position among tracked listings: not an endorsement, a guarantee or advice. How the score works.

Present in every one of the 10 weeks recorded since August 2026, with no week missing.
Net member count up 55% between our first reading, on 24 Aug 2026, and our latest, on 31 Oct 2026.

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Evidence and signals

Listed on 1,067 members.

Evidence: measured.

First recorded: 24 August 2026our first reading, not its launch

Tracked over time

Member change

+10+0.9%over 4 days+343+47.4%over 29 days

Price change

No change confirmed between readings taken the same way

16 observations over 68 days.

Member count

Monthly price

Observation log

Observation log
Observed	Members	Change	Price	Ceiling / month
31 Oct 2026	1,067	+10	Free + paid tiers	Not calculated
27 Oct 2026	1,057	+40	Free + paid tiers	Not calculated
23 Oct 2026	1,017	+5	Free + paid tiers	Not calculated
19 Oct 2026	1,012	+85	Free + paid tiers	Not calculated
15 Oct 2026	927	+92	Free + paid tiers	Not calculated
11 Oct 2026	835	+88	Free + paid tiers	Not calculated
7 Oct 2026	747	+22	Free + paid tiers	Not calculated
3 Oct 2026	725	0	$7 per month	$5,075
3 Oct 2026	725	+1	$7 per month	$5,075
2 Oct 2026	724	0	$7 per month	$5,068
23 Sept 2026	724	+3	$7 per month	$5,068
21 Sept 2026	721	+5	$7 per month	$5,047
14 Sept 2026	716	+15	$7 per month	$5,012
7 Sept 2026	701	+5	$7 per month	$4,907
31 Aug 2026	696	+8	$7 per month	$4,872
24 Aug 2026	688		$7 per month	$4,816
Average per week, last 29 days2 Oct 2026 to 31 Oct 2026		+83
Average per week, since first reading24 Aug 2026 to 31 Oct 2026		+39

Milestones observed

Milestones observed
Members	Crossing	Between readings
1,000	Passed	15 Oct 2026 and 19 Oct 2026

Course content readings

Course content readings
Observed	Posts	Modules	Courses
31 Oct 2026	1,150+46	18	8
19 Oct 2026	1,104+11	18	8
15 Oct 2026	1,093+16	18	8
11 Oct 2026	1,077+33	18-10	8-5
2 Oct 2026	1,044+61	28-2	13-1
13 Sept 2026	983	30	14
Added per week13 Sept 2026 to 31 Oct 2026	+25	-1.8	-0.9

Common questions about The Screenwriter’s Forge

What is The Screenwriter’s Forge?: The Screenwriter’s Forge is a Skool community offering live coaching on members' script pages from screenwriter J. David Stem. Stem wrote the screenplays for The Rugrats Movie and Rugrats in Paris: The Movie, and cowrote the screenplay for Shrek 2.
How much does The Screenwriter’s Forge cost?: The Screenwriter’s Forge is free to join on Skool, with paid tiers inside, read 31 Oct 2026.
How many members does The Screenwriter’s Forge have?: The Screenwriter’s Forge lists 1,067 members, read 31 Oct 2026.
How has The Screenwriter’s Forge's membership changed?: From 688 members on 24 Aug 2026, our first reading, to 1,067 on 31 Oct 2026: up 379, or 55%.
How does The Screenwriter’s Forge compare with other reselling and flipping communities?: The niche median is 590 members. Pricing benchmarks by niche.
What do you get inside The Screenwriter’s Forge?: The Screenwriter’s Forge publishes 18 course modules, 8 courses, 1,150 posts, 3 admins. Communities with the most course content.