My main success was with a writing partner. Let's call him Zev.
So Zev and me did great work together. Specs went out. 1 episode of reality TV show on air. TV Pilot got sent to many people. And we were great together in meetings. And he's great in a room. We made money together from a producer assignment given to us by a top 4 agency. Okay it was WWF.
Now Zev and me haven't written together in over 6 years. But he never stopped writing. And I'm coming back to life.
Before we wrote together we both had success.
When we were looking at reps and signed, I was obessed with saying everything we do has to be for the team. Like we should be writing script we want to sell. And that our solo stuff we should put on back burner.
Now with clearer eyes, I wonder is it better to be without a rep and able to be a free agent? Be able to write solo, with Zev or I could write something else with John or Sarah... instead of just being Zev and Me scripts.
What I'm saying is I've been debating should we work together again and I was thinking like 2010 and that means everything we do or done is tied back together. We are seen as ONE. But maybe I should think about it more like I'm my own writer, he's his own writer and we can even have different reps -- or the same rep -- but we may not work on every project together.
We can write a feature or TV show and it doesn't mean I should stop my own solo work or he should stop his. Zev also wants to do more things then me like direct/act, so be good for him to have his own rep too. We used to fight about that stuff...
I'm just waking up to the fact that I let Hollywood and reps box us in and didn't do my best work and let ideas I liked slip by because my writing partner diidnt' like any idea even if the reps did or we liked it and the reps didn't... so many ways to get rejected.
I don't know if I'm making any sense. I'm trying to express how I think I figured something out and I'm happy about that. That I can write again with Zev without it meaning the entire world. It can just be that one project.
And that having a project and giving to one producer here... and writing another and giving that to a different person to champion may be better than only giving it to your rep who may stop it right in it's tracks...
I think this is a zen moment.
Zen with Zev and me and Hollywood.
So Zev and me did great work together. Specs went out. 1 episode of reality TV show on air. TV Pilot got sent to many people. And we were great together in meetings. And he's great in a room. We made money together from a producer assignment given to us by a top 4 agency. Okay it was WWF.
Now Zev and me haven't written together in over 6 years. But he never stopped writing. And I'm coming back to life.
Before we wrote together we both had success.
When we were looking at reps and signed, I was obessed with saying everything we do has to be for the team. Like we should be writing script we want to sell. And that our solo stuff we should put on back burner.
Now with clearer eyes, I wonder is it better to be without a rep and able to be a free agent? Be able to write solo, with Zev or I could write something else with John or Sarah... instead of just being Zev and Me scripts.
What I'm saying is I've been debating should we work together again and I was thinking like 2010 and that means everything we do or done is tied back together. We are seen as ONE. But maybe I should think about it more like I'm my own writer, he's his own writer and we can even have different reps -- or the same rep -- but we may not work on every project together.
We can write a feature or TV show and it doesn't mean I should stop my own solo work or he should stop his. Zev also wants to do more things then me like direct/act, so be good for him to have his own rep too. We used to fight about that stuff...
I'm just waking up to the fact that I let Hollywood and reps box us in and didn't do my best work and let ideas I liked slip by because my writing partner diidnt' like any idea even if the reps did or we liked it and the reps didn't... so many ways to get rejected.
I don't know if I'm making any sense. I'm trying to express how I think I figured something out and I'm happy about that. That I can write again with Zev without it meaning the entire world. It can just be that one project.
And that having a project and giving to one producer here... and writing another and giving that to a different person to champion may be better than only giving it to your rep who may stop it right in it's tracks...
I think this is a zen moment.
Zen with Zev and me and Hollywood.
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