If you qualify for this project, this is a hell of an opportunity. Definitely worth checking out for writers with the required relationship to the Writers Guild of America West.
Sounds awkward, yeah, but keep reading and you’ll understand:
Even the most successful among us – whatever your definition of success may be – have moments where our fears rear their unreclaimed little heads and screw us over, and as writers, we’re especially prone to this situation..
So here’s Tony Robbins his very self on how to conquer our worst enemies…ourselves:
More videos about everybody’s favorite productivity problems HERE
Speaking of “the binge factory,” as we were just a couple of days ago, Script Reader Pro is one of the best script service sites around, and this is one of the best guides to successfully pitching your series that this TVWriter™ minion has ever seen. But I’ve already taken too much of your time so all I’ll add now is, “Dig in!”
Learning how to pitch a TV show is just an important skill to learn as writing the script itself. If you’re hoping to break into the world of television as a writer, you can write the best pilot in history, but if you don’t know how to pitch it, it’s unlikely your show will get produced.
Apart from great writing, you need to be able to convince the financial gatekeepers (read: executives) at any cable, network or reality channel that your idea has the originality, longevity and “wow-factor” to turn it into a successful series. And to turn over a tidy profit.
TVWriter™ Contributing Editor Kelly Jo Brick is taking a break from our e-pages to write for FinalDraft.Com, but that doesn’t mean y’all have to miss her because linking, you know? So here’s the latest from our favorite award winning screenwriter, documentarian, blogger:
It’s your dream to be on the writing staff of a television show or to sell your
feature film script. Until that happens, you’re working a day job, grabbing spare moments to write. So, how do you stay motivated until your breakthrough?
Set attainable goals
Author Nathan Bransford of How to Write a Novel and Jacob Wonderbar fame has been thinking about recent events many of us may want to forget. But if anything is worth remembering it’s this look into the arts, and artists, and our world of pain:
My heart is incredibly heavy this week with the suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, and the ongoing poisoning of our shared culture by people who see more to gain in distracting us with hate than in inspiring love.
This is a moment in history that seems designed to bring out the worst in all of us, rather than the best.