A good way (well, as good as any, all things considered) to break into showbiz as a writer is to write indie screenplays. What’s an indie screenplay? There are a lot of criteria we could use to come up with a definition, but the best working one we have is this: Indie screenplays are low-budget screenplays.
So, keeping that in mind:
On Writing Low Budget Screenplays
by Paul Zeidman
I recently had lunch with a friend who’s a working writer.