- Financial Plan Example/Template
- How to secure script rewrites and/or dialogue sweetings...
- Manifesto for New Writers (a.k.a. 2 generations of Blacks)
- Spec scripts
- If you could only have one...
- Sending scripts to unknowns
- Best to be truthful here?
- Sending out script to an agent
- Explain THIS to me. Please.
- Legality of basing fiction on true events...
- Looking for Agent/Prod co.
- Writer >> Producer?
- Writing Sample
- So you get a bite......
- How many of you realistically think you'll make it?
- How many of you think... (Piggy-backing Hilario)
- Pros, how do you approach a "take?"
- Pros, how about attaching as a producer to a pitch?
- Ideas for existing franchise
- A Global Point
- What do you do with the money?
- Pitching too soon?
- Where Do You Put The Oscar?
- So how does one get a staff job on an existing show?
- Best time to email a query?
- Deal memo compensation question
- Do Tracking Boards Exist?
- Variety: "Disney exec: Studios should lean on tentpoles"
- Are news stories public domain?
- Should there be an option agreement for this?
- Offered An Option, What Do You Think?
- Script blows up - What part of no "unsolicited material" do you not understand?
- Tax status of script sales
- Do Studios Make Money Losers Intentionally?
- Proof of ownership for script?
- I've shot a pilot – what now?
- Entertainment Accountant
- "Story By" percentage?
- How should my business card look?
- Would you work in this industry if...
- Question
- Forwarding e-mails
- Forwarding coverage
- Why Leigh Whannell (Saw) Only Writes Specs
- How to lose a producer?
- How to "present" a re-write
- Pitching articles, books.
- Am I giving up too quickly or am I not fit for this?
- An interesting lawsuit
- Cold Calling?
- Can anyone explain turnaround to me?
- A lesson to people seeking attachments...
- Verbotten storylines because they're bad for investor business?
- Sales Rep Wants "Sales Sheet"
- First official meeting post-sale with producers
- Executive wants to read
- Who greenlights an option?
- How long should it take an agent to read?
- Question for the Pros...
- Advice on movie deals, etc.
- Can I sell a two-installment movie (screenplay)?
- What does this mean in English? - i.e., like a Chris Rock V.O.
- Also need help from the pros...
- I Want To Terminate My Option Early
- Odd Question
- Have you ever optioned material yourself?
- Writing about existing sports teams...
- Querying on Facebook
- Next step?
- Graphic novels/Pitching Screenplays
- First Production Company Meeting
- Another blow to independent film
- Advice on Spec Assignments
- Purchase price for pitch from a new writer?
- Ad on Craig's List
- A question from Barcelona
- Beginner screenwriter with first script
- Had a General, Need Advice
- Writing 'full synopsis'
- Selling Script + Novelization at Same Time?
- Historical Drama not based on a Big Book
- Some general thoughts and ideas about generals, part 1
- Do any of you work in advertising?
- Interesting Article from the Jewish Journal on Occupy Fox
- Fees to adapt a novel
- TV series in Canada
- Unsolicited
- Adaptation for hire - what would you ask for?
- Writers' Assistant Interview Experiences
- One pass to ruin them all
- "Have any buyers seen your script?"
- Anyone do staged readings in LA?
- Specs to the screen?
- Advice on Socializing At An Industry Party
- Agent Percentages and Income Tax
- When Do You Quit?
- Subtitles / dubbing
- Getting on the Blacklist
- Ceding rights in appropiate way
- Protecting my work - shorts
- WGA Insurance
- Pitching and pant-pooping
- Need some quick advice
- Advice for pitching a take?
- VPF responses and further queries
- Bad time?
- Found Footage Genre
- Sending a trailer / visual pitch instead of a summary?
- The End of a Pitch
- Selling via an One Liner?
- Dead Island
- Using made up name?
- The Market for Specs and Assignments
- Holiday Time
- Am I ready?? Are YOU ready?
- How long for a yay or a nay
- Someone wants to produce my short
- ...only if some cast and money...
- For those that aren't carpet bombing Hollywood...
- Offer skills and service?
- On Trying Again....
- Getting People Together on Script
- Ever had any luck querying...
- What's my next step?
- How To Package and Attach Actors to a Script??
- Examples of terrible scripts that are repped?
- So why do you think you're gonna make it.
- Does Genre Matter
- How to write Script Coverage?
- Publication question
- Prod Co vs. Managers
- Mentor for 2012
- Straight-to-DVD anyone?
- Making it outside of LA
- What to write next?
- Newbie - Notepad of ideas.
- Humility And Hubris
- The Other Half of the Job
- Strategy for dealing with parallel development
- "We both share the same goal"
- What's the best genre for a £10,000/$10,000 budget?
- The Slapstick Comedy: Dead or Worth writing?
- Never too early to start strategizing?
- Mass Query Services
- Novels
- Confusion
- Anyone write westerns?
- Disagreeing with an exec
- TV Pitch
- Anybody from Slovenia?
- Anyone ever submitted a pitch doc or treatment?
- Liability issue??
- ***** and PG-13
- Brits to LA
- Making a resume -- How?
- Execs and Notes
- Speccing and conflict with WGA
- Screenwriting deals with points
- Let Them Quit
- Who here wants to go from Screenwriting to Directing
- Option Offer
- Registering a web series with the WGA?
- Using visual aid for a pitch?
- What questions do executives ask themselves while reading your script?
- Collaboration troubles
- Timing for Selling Television
- Question about music in a film
- When a first time writer sells a spec?
- Change of title
- Period Specs: Total Futility?
- Websites, self-marketing, blogs - any point?
- Are there ever going to be animation residuals?
- Writing for people who wimp out.
- How do you STAY in this business?
- The Useful Guide to Los Angeles
- Should I option my short?
- What Would You Do?
- Is a short worth protecting?
- Are Hollywood and Washington really the same place?
- "Work-for-hire" Contract
- When to re-register a script?
- This is why you need to make sure you have paperwork ...
- Non-WGA writers' agreements
- Skype/Phone Meetings
- My Bullying Screenplay
- Tell Someone They're Being Rewritten?
- Idiot Wannabe Producer
- When is a writer ready for Hollywood?
- Adventures in Cold Calling
- Blog to tv sitcom offer!
- Should I?
- Re-write on un-optioned script
- Art of the Script Sale In 2012
- Self promote on a personal website?
- Bombing a pitch meeting.
- Script payment
- Who Reads and Who Gets Read
- Stealing from your own pitch
- About 'Generals'
- Gavin Pollone: Who Really Determines the Fates of Aspiring Screenwriters?
- Am I totally free to walk with my scripts?
- Does buzz = quality?
- Copyright/Script Registration
- Passover
- Patience: virtue or not?
- Talking with Authors Before Adapting Their Novels
- Writing for the Chinese/HK market?
- How honest are you?
- Production Companies Vs. Agents/Managers
- What/who motivates you?
- Spec script sale vs. assignment contract
- Where to send my script?
- How do you not go nuts...?
- Attaching Download Link in Query E-mail?
- Phone Etiquette
- How to approach an A-list director in my family?
- D.i.y.
- Is this a legitimate request?
- Level of similarity
- Is it "bad" to submit script to Nicolls if you're going out with it?
- Damaging the Brand
- Why some scripts take weeks to sell?
- What defines 'Television' and 'Cinema'?
- Newbie Question - What if I just found my idea is already in production
- Genre switching
- What to Do When You Don't Write Commercial
- Feeling lost
- The Exception Proves The Rule
- Tweet.
- When can one hope for any remuneration?
- Crossover scripts
- Informal pro poll
- What exactly is a 'soft' offer from producer?