Cashing In on the Second Golden Age of Television
What kinds of scripts are selling in the current marketplace? And what kinds of specific scripts are new writers using to launch careers?
What kinds of scripts are selling in the current marketplace? And what kinds of specific scripts are new writers using to launch careers?
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 multitude of pretend writers sit around complaining about how impossible it is to have a career while the real writers book job after job. So what is it that makes someone a real writer?
I was fortunate enough to launch my career while still in film school by having Ridley Scott hire me to write Metropolis. How the heck did that happen?
The first thing agents do when evaluating a new writer’s script.
Why writing to the paradigms gets you ignored in the current marketplace.
One of the main differences that distinguishes amateurs from professional writers is that amateurs sometimes write. They write when they have the time or when they feel like it, or when they take a class and have an immediate deadline. So what do professionals do?
Learn how close Vince Gilligan was to giving up on the project, and what stopped him from throwing in the towel.
Why do so many writers fail? The conventional answer is that most of them simply don’t possess the required talent. This is absolutely wrong.
A contest judges offers advice to those planning on entering the competition.