As my thread post indicates, I'm wondering how much (frequency and quality) stuff do you put in front of your manager suggesting to him or her that you'd like a meeting set up, and what information delivery vehicles do you use for looking for work for yourself?
To elaborate: if you're a repped writer not working in the industry or living in LA, what do you follow to keep track of/hear about open writing assignments, or recently acquired properties that will soon be looking for writers?
TrackingB's website seems to offer that, but at $79 w/o a free trial, I haven't checked it out yet.
Does DDP have an sections where this information would be easily found?
What are other resources (I'm thinking beyond Variety and H'wood Reporter, who to my eye mostly focus on bigger deals further down the line already than I'm thinking about.)
Second:
Once something has caught your eye--and as a hungry writers, I'm imagining a lot would catch our eyes--how often do you ring your manager up to let him/her know "hey, I just saw this!" "I just saw this!" "Get me a meeting here!" ... in your experience, are most managers open to that ("Hey, my client's working as hard for himself as I am and really wants to book work!") or do they feel it's is sort of their job, and let them do it?
Any thoughts appreciated!
To elaborate: if you're a repped writer not working in the industry or living in LA, what do you follow to keep track of/hear about open writing assignments, or recently acquired properties that will soon be looking for writers?
TrackingB's website seems to offer that, but at $79 w/o a free trial, I haven't checked it out yet.
Does DDP have an sections where this information would be easily found?
What are other resources (I'm thinking beyond Variety and H'wood Reporter, who to my eye mostly focus on bigger deals further down the line already than I'm thinking about.)
Second:
Once something has caught your eye--and as a hungry writers, I'm imagining a lot would catch our eyes--how often do you ring your manager up to let him/her know "hey, I just saw this!" "I just saw this!" "Get me a meeting here!" ... in your experience, are most managers open to that ("Hey, my client's working as hard for himself as I am and really wants to book work!") or do they feel it's is sort of their job, and let them do it?
Any thoughts appreciated!
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