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16 Things To Do When You Finish Your Screenplay
I don’t want you to read this thinking the writing is done just because you finished your screenplay. Unfortunately, you need to start having people read it. Ultimately you want professionals to read...
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When To Quit Your Day Job To Write Full Time? Part 1
There are lots of reasons people don’t quit their day jobs to write fiction, nonfiction or screenplays. Some of them are lucky, and have money. Some of them may have permission to live with their...
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When To Quit Your Day Job To Write Full Time? 2 Follow the Money.
So, in When To Quit Your Day Job To Write Full Time, Part 1 we discussed the fact that, oddly, many Pulitzer Prize Winning, and even Nobel Prize winning writers chose to work all their lives,...
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When To Quit Your Day Job To Write Full Time? Part 3
In deciding whether or not to quit your day job, you’ll have to consider all of your expenses. And don’t forget health insurance. Your day job may have provided a health plan. Once you quit, and...
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Survival Guide For Highly Sensitive, Introverted & Shy Writers Part 1
Some traits writers (and most creative individuals) seem to share are; introversion, shyness, a tendency toward solitude, a studious nature, a strong goal orientation, ability to empathize, an...
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Guide for Sensitive & Creative Self Care
In the Survival Guide, Part 1, I talked to writers about how highly sensitive people (HSPs), introverts, and shy writers need to protect themselves, and be on guard about their vulnerabilities. We got...
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Sensitive & Creative; Mind Your Environment
In the Survival Guide for Highly Sensitive, Introverted & Shy Writers Part 3, we talked about how writers who find themselves sharing some of these traits can protect themselves and take care of...
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Writers Best Tips for Social Anxiety
Everything about making movies, TV shows, and live theater, is collaborative. Actors have to get along with directors, directors have to get along with producers, and producers have to get along with...
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Too Old For Hollywood
George R. R, Martin is 67 years old. He’s the originator of the Emmy winning Best Drama, Game of Thrones. He seems to be doing quite well in television at his advanced age. It does happen. Of...
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Over 40 In Hollywood; Survival Guide
What are some ways older writers can find help trying to break in? If you’re older and can write a really great spec script for a TV show that’s on the air, and a really great TV pilot, there are...
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Older Writers; Maximize Your Success
Compared to the TV writing world, there is less concern about how the writer will get along with the staff. In many ways, if you’re over 50, you have a better chance of breaking in by writing feature...
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The #1 Myth That Will Kill Your Writing Career
When you come to Hollywood to try to make it as a writer, you get all kinds of advice, and hear all kinds of stories and rumors about how to “break in.” Many of them seem true on the face of them, but...
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Hollywood Myth; All You Need Is A Great Idea
When you’re just starting out, you’re full of excitement about screenwriting. You think about lots of what you think are great ideas for screenplays, and you may even decide you have the best idea for...
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Don’t Use Bad Movies As An Excuse
There are so many bad movies out there; I just need to write a script that’s better. A lot of writers find motivation after seeing a movie that fails for some reason. It may be boring, have huge plot...
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Unwritten Hollywood Rule: Don’t Be Too Original
Of course you want to be original when you’re writing your screenplay. But don’t be too original. While saying it out loud sounds like a terrible idea, consider what’s going on in Hollywood. Think...
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How To Write Scripts With A Partner (Part 1of 2)
There are so many benefits to writing with a partner that I recommend it for writers out there lucky enough to find someone they’re compatible with. For example, and most importantly, the both of you...
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Writing Screenplays With A Partner (2 of 2)
Agents and managers love to represent writing partners. As I’ve explained, they have many selling points over an individual writer. Be careful, though, agents have been known to discreetly find out...
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Will Hollywood Steal My Movie?
When I first started selling features, I noticed that there was the true story of Pope Joan, the only female Pope. She kept her gender a secret, until she gave birth, and suddenly everyone knew....
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Screenwriters; Adjust Your Attitude
When you are around other Hollywood professionals, for any reason, they are going to take note of what kind of a person you are. They’ll make up their mind about whether they want to work with in the...
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How To Come Up With Film Ideas (Borrow or Steal)
The movie Outland is basically High Noon, with Sean Connery in the Gary Cooper role, and it takes place on one of Jupiter’s moons. Alien was pitched as Jaws in space by Ridley Scott. The Coen brothers...
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