Aspiring screenwriters from all over the United States (and other countries, too) dream of selling their screenplays to Hollywood and seeing them as a movie on the big screen. But given that selling a screenplay is a long-shot at best, most of the time it’s a bad idea to uproot your entire life and family […]
…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.
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…
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…
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.