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Hollywood Marketing Minutes: Finish The Year Strong With Your Goals

What do you want to achieve toward your screenwriting or acting goals by the end of the year? What goal could you set that you would be really proud to achieve before the stroke of midnight on December 31, 2009?

How To Write A Screenplay: The Basic Plot Points That Help Sell Your Script

…must contain a Hook in the Set-Up to keep the reader, whether it’s a literary agent or producer, riveted to your screenplay. In particular, the first 5 pages of a screenplay should totally hook the Hollywood movie executive. If it doesn’t, they will … and toss it in the trash.

Write and Sell a Screenplay – Literary Agent

Finally, you’ve finished your masterpiece, a 100 and some odd pages of a screenplay… and now the hard part begins. What… now the hard part begins? Yes, now you have to…

Query Letters That Help You Sell A Screenplay

A query letter is such an important tool in your toolbox when you’re trying to sell your screenplay that if it stinks, then you may never get another letter even opened from that agent. When you write a good one, you can get the surprise benefit of…

Why Won’t A Literary Agent Even Read My Script?

Many new writers fall prey to some common mistakes when typing up their query letter. Here are some tips to writing the perfect query letter and how to avoid the common mistakes that will no doubt cause a literary agent to reject your script.