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Creating Effective Pitch Decks (Part 2)

This entry is part of 2 in the series Pitch Deck:QUOTES/EXCERPTS: One page.Some dialog or narrative selections to give the reader a sense of the writing style works really well especially if the dialogue is superb. Comedies especially benefit from this because funny is funny in context or isolated.If I was pitching the TV show W...
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Creating Effective Pitch Decks (Part 1)

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Pitch Deck:Pitch Decks (Pitch Documents) are one of those marketing tools that although viable have limited use for writers. But they are an important part of the total marketing package every writer should put together along with a logline and synopsis.So what are they exactly and why do ...
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There Will Always Be A Market For A Script We Can’t Put Down

“There Will Always Be A Market For A Script We Can’t Put Down” Says Seth Renshaw. He worked in PR, media sales and then with CAA’s Marketing department before transitioning to film and television with David Dobkin’s Big Kid Pictures at Warner Bros.  He is currently the Head of Development at Benaroya Pictures, a writer of variou...
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What Are Your Real Chances of Success

Writers know it’s not easy to launch and sustain a career. The odds aren’t necessarily stacked in your favor. But what exactly are your chances of making it?  The answer might surprise you.The first thing we need to know is the size of the competition.  If we were to ask how many people want to be professional screenwriters or T...
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What Are We Really Selling?

Early in my career, I learned one of the shrewdest questions an entrepreneur can ask themselves, "What are we really selling?" For example:  You are not selling grass seed. You are selling a greener lawn.You are not selling boilers. You are selling warmer, cozier winter nights at a 27% fuel savings.You are not selling baseball t...
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Learn to love all forms of storytelling

  • Heather Hale
  • .January 22, 2024
Writers and screenwriting teachers Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir share their insights on writing with partners, developing scripts for television, and adaptations.Life has a way of getting in the way of writing. How much of our own writing we get done depends on how and where we’re earning our income, our personal respons...
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Not a Lottery

  • Brianne Hogan
  • .November 20, 2023
Not a Lottery: Michael Ray Brown on Screenwriting:Growing up in Des Moines, Iowa, story analyst Michael Ray Brown hunted for crawdads in a creek, and whiled away days reading comic books in a treehouse.“Going to movies was a rarity in our family,” Brown says. “One of my fondest memories is when we all saw It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, M...
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Writing the Showcase Short

  • Ron Suppa
  • .August 1, 2023
(REPOST) Ron Suppa discusses the importance of Short films, and offers crucial advice on how to create them:It’s how Spielberg, Coppola, Lucas and Scorsese got their start. As a producer, I found the first three filmmakers I ever worked with through short film showcases. Always on the lookout for new talent, I still try my best ...
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Advice To Screenwriters

  • June 7, 2023
Manager Andrew Kersey’s - Advice To Screenwriters: “Develop Your Craft. Develop Your Voice And Your Time Will Come.”Andrew Kersey, who represents screenwriters, shares his insights into how screenwriters should deal with representation and prepare for a successful career in screenwriting.When should unrepresented screenwriters l...
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The Art of Self-Promotion

  • Ron Suppa
  • .April 18, 2023
Excerpted in part from 'Real Screenwriting: Strategies and Stories from the Trenches' by Ron Suppa:Face it folks, we screenwriters can be as invisible as a polar bear in a snowstorm. Out of sight, out of mind. If they can’t see you, how can you expect them to respect you? (“They” being the agents, producers and studio honchos) T...
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Make Them Forget They’re Reading A Script

  • Ralph Hershkowitz
  • .March 22, 2023
“Make Them Forget They’re Reading A Script” Says Manager Jonathan Hersh. How does a screenwriter become someone you want to work with?So much of it is a personal fit. I like working with writers that I get along with on a personal level. We’re going to be spending a lot of time together (mostly by phone) so it’s important that o...
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Marketability

So what’s this thing called marketability and do I need to worry about it as I write?As a script consultant this is a question I’ve been asked by writers many times and it’s a good one. The answer is yes, and um, well, no. How’s that for confusing? I’ll try to clarify…Marketability (or commerciality) is a term used to describe a...
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7 Reasons Writers Need Filmmakers

  • Collab Writers
  • .November 11, 2022
(REPOST) If you, like many writers are wondering if your short story or book idea that you want to write could ever become a movie – then read on.Here are seven reasons why writers need filmmakers1. Hollywood has a long and fascinating love-affair with books.Each year the Oscar nominations attract global attention. As a writer a...
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Desperation, Dread, & Determination

I call them the triple D’s of screenwriting:DreadEvery screenwriter experiences this eventually. You get to a place where it feels like it’s all over. You’ll never get that agent. The manager will never call you back. Will anyone respond to my query? Listen my friend. I’ve been there. You are not the only one. I remember doing o...
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The Screenwriter’s Guide to General Meetings

General Meetings – or “generals” as they are more widely known in the industry – are effectively meet-and-greets between a producer, development executive network or studio executive, and the writer whose work the individual behind the desk has read and responded to enough to want to meet with its creator. The voice, if you will...
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A simple 2 x 2 for choices

Our life is filled with projects. We invest time, effort or money, and perhaps we get a result.It’s useful to have a portfolio of projects, because not all of them are going to work.The 2 x 2 grid looks like this:It might be simple, but it’s not always easy. Success doesn’t always mean money, it just means that you got what you ...
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Answer These 3 Questions About Your Screenplay or Pilot

The other day, I met a new writer, who sent me his pilot to read ahead of our session. He was a talented writer, for sure; the world of his show was rich, and his plot well thought out. But it also left a number of questions for me, the sort of questions that go beyond the content itself, and that every writer, whether writing T...
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8 Ways Successful People Master Resilience

Resilience is an amazing skill that helps us recover quickly from difficulties. If you are resilient, you have an innate ability to keep getting up when life knocks you down. You have learned how to bounce back and keep going.We build our resilience by learning to cope with challenges -- it’s a process of adapting well in the fa...
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Nina Ameri on the Legal Side of Screenwriting

  • Brock Swinson
  • .April 28, 2022
Ms. Ameri is a Los Angeles-based entertainment attorney who represents independent film producers, production companies, writers, actors, and directors in a variety of transactions ranging from acquisition of intellectual property and life story rights, corporate formation, talent agreements, writer agreements, producer agreemen...
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How Staying Local Brought Hollywood to Me

  • Stephen Camelio
  • .April 25, 2022
"Move to Montana” is not the advice you’ll get when you tell someone you want to break into the entertainment business. Especially, if like me, you were working at one of the biggest magazines in the country owned by a parent company that also ran TV and movie studios. At that job, I interacted with bold face names and their pub...

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