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Is It Better To Market Your Script to Producers, Literary Agents, or Literary Managers First?

Screenwriters often hear “You need to get an agent to sell your screenplay. That’s the only way it will happen.” And because they hear that, ...

What Every Screenwriter Should Know About Branding

Thousands of screenplays and ideas get submitted to Hollywood every month so it becomes a big challenge to get your screenplay read and to have ...

The Fastest Way To Get A Literary Agent For Your Screenplay

If your intention is to be a professional, working screenwriter – whether in Los Angeles, Alabama, Michigan or Australia, being represented by an agent or ...

Elements of Great Screenwriting

To be a real contender in Hollywood, you must study the craft of screenwriting so that your scripts are the best they can be when ...

Seven Major Career Skills For Screenwriter: What Can You Outsource?

One of the challenges for screenwriters and really many other active, ambitious creative people is trying to find time to do all the things they ...

Establish Credibility Before They Read Your Script

Once you have polished your script, gotten a thumbs up from a professional script analyst, and you also feel it's ready to go, then you ...

Why Should I Use the Smart Girls Query Letter Service For My Screenplay Instead of Doing It Myself?

Screenwriters often ask me what the advantage is for using our query letter service instead of doing it themselves since there is no guarantee you’ll ...

The Screenwriter’s Best Resource For Authentic Creativity

The most effective, powerful, and interesting characters you can create for a screenplay are often based on real people. If you look back over your ...

Selling A Script: How To Increase Your Odds

Maybe you’ve just completed re-writing the last page of your script.  Now you’re excited about the idea of selling your screenplay to a studio or ...

The Seeds For Screenwriter’s Success

One of the challenges is that you will mostly get negative feedback when you have your script reviewed or even considered for production. And yes, ...

How To Write a Treatment For Your Screenplay: 7 Critical Tips

Previously I wrote about the great benefits of writing treatments for your screenplays instead of jumping directly into writing the scenes themselves. In case you ...

5 Quick & Easy Ways To Establish Credibility In Your Query Letter

When you write a query letter, your first and foremost challenge is to summarize your 100+ page story to a paragraph-or-two-long pitch that gets people ...
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