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Q. I write treatments and scripts as a hobby, and lately it’s becoming more than a hobby. I think I’ve got a great treatment, but I’m not so sure about the script. What should I do? Sell my idea (treatment) and let someone make the script? A. I know where you're coming from - and I've been there myself. But I believe the chances of getting anyone to buy your treatment when you are an unknown writer are negligible. To an extent it depends on whether you are aiming at TV or movies (in TV you do stand a slightly greater chance of getting someone to read a treatment and commission a script from you, but even then they will need to trust your writing, so you will need one or two original scripts for them to read). In movies, in my own experience, you absolutely need a script when you come in cold from the outside. It's seen as the only entry card worth having. But getting the treatment right is 90% of the work - it's the story that matters. If you've genuinely got a great story that builds and rises, and twists in the right ways, and ends on a proper character filled climax then you have done the hard work, so I'd definitely persevere - you're on the home straight.
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