PERRY – A Perry woman hopes her first screenplay will someday be made into a movie for television.

Karen Kinsman’s screenplay, “Tomorrow’s Wish,” has already been picked up by a Canadian production company. The deal with Millbrook Productions gives Kinsman an undisclosed amount, creative control as executive producer and a portion of the film’s gross profits.

“To get [a screenplay] purchased can be near impossible and infinitely impossible when you live in Maine,” said Laurie Dell of the Maine Screenwriter’s Organization. “The Internet is changing things.”

Kinsman, 50, first wrote the screenplay as a novel a few years ago. She got help fine-tuning it from Hollywood through the Internet.

Storybay.com is a fee-based service that helps people polish their scripts. If Storybay likes the script, it is shown to a network of Hollywood agencies and production companies.

Kinsman’s movie deal is the first success for a script submitted to Storybay, according to company spokesman Jonathan Zaleski.

Kinsman didn’t have much experience as a writer before she tackled “Tomorrow’s Wish.” She occasionally wrote articles for her local newspaper, but she started work on the novel after physical problems forced her to spend more time at home.

After nine months, she has written a first draft that was more than 500 pages long.

“I was amazed at myself,” she said.

Kinsman describes the story as a nostalgic drama about a young woman’s coming of age during the Vietnam War. The story is fictional, she said, but based on her own life in her hometown of Duluth, Minn.

Kinsman didn’t have much luck getting her story published. A friend suggested she turn it into a script, which she did with the help of a computer software program.

She discovered Storybay in July as she was looking for agents on the Internet.

The site was new at the time, and Kinsman was able to submit her script for a free critique. The site normally charges $175 to review a script and $375 for a more in-depth analysis by the company’s professional readers.

Paying a fee to have a script read by a professional is common in the industry, Dell said.

“A professional service charges 100 to 1,000 dollars,” Dell said. “It’s been long recommended that once you write a screenplay you should have someone read it.”

Kinsman said Storybay has been a big help.

“I didn’t have anyone to talk to about writing. I don’t know any writers who live up in Perry.”

Kinsman script was eventually posted on a page for producers. Bruce Dennis, president of Millbrook Productions, was taken by it.

“It’s written from the heart,” Dennis said. “You’re carried through all the way from the beginning to the end.”

The 4-year-old production company is based in New Brunswick and has distributed television and feature films in Canada and Europe.

Storybay’s staff also gave Kinsman advice on how to put together an option agreement with the production company.

Dennis said that he is looking for financing for “Tomorrow’s Wish” and expects it will become a made-for-TV movie of the week.

“It’s hard to say when it will all come together,” Dennis said. “But I believe it will.”