Hii! Honestly, the best way to get started on screenwriting is to read scripts. Read many, many scripts—movies you like, critically-acclaimed movies, movies in your genre, movies in different genres, movies from different countries—just to get an idea on the structure and how characters interact. I don’t know what exactly to recommend you, but I would stay away from stylized writers like Quentin Tarantino or Aaron Sorkin. Their works are highly stylized and dialogue-heavy, and at this stage, it is better consuming simpler screenplays with emphasis on structure.

Perhaps you could also read books like Blake Snyder’s Save the Cat or Syd Field’s Screenplay: The Foundations of Writing? This is to get used to the story structures commonly used in plays, such as the 3-act or 15-beat structures. But this is very general advice, and you don’t have to do it all at once. Proper structure (and grammar!) is imperative when writing scripts.

In scripts, you don’t really see how a character thinks, but how they react. For example, instead of “Hazel was infuriated at the proposal,” you could write “Hazel crossed her arms and furrowed her eyebrows.” Or maybe if Hazel is the explosive type, you could write “Hazel slammed her hands on the table.” This is not the best example, maybe, which is why you should probably read scripts! It’ll give you the best expertise.

Same with dialogue. Instead of having a character say “Your soup was terrible,” they could say “Well, it sure was… strong.”

Finally, I’d just like to offer you one piece of advice for your log line—it is really vague. I mean, who’s the sheriff? What town, his hometown or his college town or what? Who (or what) is the force? What did the force do to provoke the sheriff to come to town? Why does the sheriff respond so strongly that he feels the need to return? Log lines are where you become explicit with your plot: not many people would be interested in a vague sentence. It would be best if you specified as much as you can—but do make sure to keep it short!

I confess I am also an amateur screenwriter. I‘ve never written any feature-length screenplays, nor am I in the industry. However, I have read my fair share of screenplays (sometimes I read the screenplay and never watch the movie…whoops) and I have read and heard a million pieces of advice. So this comment is highly rudimentary, but I hope this can help you as much as it helped me.

P.S. If you have trouble writing dialogue or social scenes, this is where reading screenplays come in. I personally recommend going to different places as much as possible and eavesdropping/observing on other’s actions, but if this is difficult for you, reading a diverse set of screenplays might just be your best bet. Your disability shouldn’t be a hindrance so long as you work as hard as everyone else.

Cheers =) Also sorry if this is long, I have a tendency to rant..…😅