Posted on September 1, 2010 in Selling Your Script | No Comments
You’re a hot writer! Already you can see your name on the front page of Variety and the Hollywood Reporter. But to make the magic work, you need an agent.
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Posted on August 5, 2010 in General Screenwriting, Internet, Selling Your Film, Selling Your Script | No Comments
Presented by the WGAW Publicity and Marketing Committee, this March 27, 2010 all-day seminar offered Writers Guild members tools to help them get online, promote their careers, raise their industry profiles, build their brands and distribute and monetize their work.
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Posted on July 6, 2010 in General Screenwriting, Selling Your Script, Story | 1 Comment
How can you write a memorable spec script that helps get you staffed? Why is it so hard to write a TV pilot script that not only gets you noticed, but could sell? I believe that strong writing will rise. In helping to launch countless careers, I’ve noticed some commonalities in the writers who make it. The strongest trait is belief in self and a burning desire to make it happen.
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Posted on June 8, 2010 in General Screenwriting, Selling Your Script | 2 Comments
by Richard Walter
You’re heard it a gazillion times: it’s not what you know but who you know.
Talent, schmalent, one screenplay is pretty much like another. Don’t oodles of lousy scripts get produced? We’ve all seen movies that were worse than one or another of our own unsold screenplays. How can it be that a bad [...]
Posted on November 29, 2009 in Selling Your Script, Story | 1 Comment
by John Truby
There is a system of thought known as the As-If Philosophy. In a nutshell, the As-If Philosophy says: We know we will die, but we act “as if” we will live forever. The ironic result is that our lives are not nearly as fulfilling as they could be. The entertainment industry is a [...]
Posted on November 11, 2009 in General Screenwriting, Selling Your Script | 3 Comments
by Steve Kaire
High Concept is a term that’s been confused, misunderstood and misused by writers for decades. The common belief is that it’s any movie that can be pitched in one sentence. A man who battles his wife for custody of their children is one sentence, but it’s a million miles from being High Concept.
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Posted on November 5, 2009 in Featured, Selling Your Script | 4 Comments
You’ve spent months, maybe years, you have given your blood sweat and tears. You’ve read it through a dozen times, you have exorcised all your grammar crimes. You have tied up all the loose ends and have a story that transcends. Now that is time to sell, you may be saying what [...]
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Posted on November 2, 2009 in Screenplay Format, Selling Your Script | 1 Comment
Advanced format and style tips that can turn a good script into a great read
by Christopher Riley
Before a film or television script can fulfill its destiny in front of cameras and on screens around the world, it must first succeed as a piece of literature, a document that captivates the reader before it delights the [...]
Posted on October 29, 2009 in Selling Your Script | 2 Comments
by John Truby
The key question that all screenwriters should ask themselves is: how do I write a script that Hollywood wants to buy? Most writers mistakenly think that success is all about connections and star power. Not so. The real trick to writing a script that will sell is to know and use Hollywood’s central [...]
Posted on June 23, 2009 in Selling Your Script | 2 Comments
by Jonathan Treisman
Have you ever been stuck listening to a friend tell you a joke that seems to go on without ever reaching the punch line? Your mind starts wandering and you stop paying attention as the joke painfully loses its momentum.
Pitching your ideas effectively, whether from a script, novel or even your own [...]
Posted on June 8, 2009 in Selling Your Script | 1 Comment
Posted by IQ Member FSUWriter in the forums
Short answer: I have no idea. There is no set way to do it. I called agents on a list. Others knew people who recommended their work to Agents. The key here, and remember this, is that you have to show the Agent that you have the potential [...]
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Posted on May 14, 2009 in Selling Your Script | No Comments
Ashley Scott Meyers from SellingYourScreenplay.com offers some basic tips on how to sell that screenplay.
…To sell a script the first thing you need to do is write a great screenplay. I know this sounds obvious, but really, it’s got to be great to get noticed.
— SellingYourScreenplay.com | Read The Full Article
Posted on December 28, 2008 in Selling Your Script | 1 Comment
by Ken Rotcop
The phone rang.
It was a big shot producer from a major studio. “Hey, Ken, I love what you’ve done! What a great idea! I’m gonna steal it from you.”
Was he talking about one of my scripts? No. What he was talking about was – well, read on.
Let’s say you’ve had a pitch meeting. [...]
Posted on August 25, 2008 in Selling Your Script | 1 Comment
by Susan Kouguell
A great query letter is your key to unlocking an executive’s door. Take your time and be as thoughtful about your query as you were when writing your screenplay. Industry professionals view query letters as a reflection of the writer’s screenplay and writing skills, so the assumption will be if the query letter [...]
Posted on August 5, 2008 in Selling Your Script | No Comments
by Howard Meibach
Question from Chris Van: I write to you from Johannesburg, South Africa. I have finally completed my screenplay after a six-year haul. Thanks to Writers Store I have used many of your publications on my path to success.
I have a powerful email logline and message which I would like to send to agents [...]
