Whenever I speak with aspiring Hollywood writers, the first
question they ask is How do I break in? How do I get an agent and
how do I get that first job. ] But getting an agent and that first
job isn t going to get you very far. What aspiring writers should
be asking is How do I build a successful career in Hollywood? ] The
agent and the first job is just the beginning. Hollywood is full of
writers who sold one or two scripts and were never heard from
again. What it takes to succeed on your first job and then build on
it to get the next job and the next is what separates the one
script wonder ] from the writer with a Hollywood career. Among the
questions aspiring writers really need to ask are: -How Do I Know
When My Spec Script Is Ready For Submission? -What Does An Agent
Look For In A Writer Beyond Their Scripts? -Once I Have An Agent
What Else Should I Be Doing? -When I Go To A Meet & Greet, ]
What Do I Say? -How Do I Prepare For The Different Types Of Pitch
Meetings? -How Do I Handle Notes I Disagree With? -Do I Need A
Lawyer And A Manager? Most writers discover the answers to these
questions through trial and error. But in Hollywood, errors can be
costly to a writer s career. More than one writer has seen his
career thwarted due to a simple lack of awareness. The goal of
Writing For The Hollywood $ ] is to arm aspiring writers with as
much information as possible so not only will the road to their
first agent and sale be easier, but they ll also be able to avoid
costly mistakes and have a much better chance of turning that first
job into a another and another. Writing For The Hollywood $ ]
begins by asking the writer to do some serious self-examination as
it lists the basic ingredients ] beyond a good script that a writer
will need if they expect to build a career as a Hollywood writer.
From here it goes on to cover topics such as dealing with
executives, the different types of pitch meetings, the script notes
process, the realities of working on a television writing staff and
avoiding potential land mines that can damage a writer s forward
progress. Writing for The Hollywood $ ] provides invaluable
information for anyone who s ever aspired to write for the screen,
by someone who s actually been there and done it.
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