If you’re chasing an agent you could be wasting your time. Here’s the smart way to get work as a screenwriter.

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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!It’s obviously that kind of a day:
Apoptotic Productions are looking for comedies:
224 S Main Street
Ste. # 103
Springville, UT 84663
info@apoptoticproductions.com
From their site:
‘At Apoptotic Productions, we are passionate about our art.  We are committed to innovation and the [...]

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Well, as I seem to be in the market for posting good leads for script submissions at the moment, here’s another one that might be worth your attention if you’re in any kind of film studentship at the moment in North America/Canada.
Here’s what the website says is their mission:
‘To find gifted screenwriters and directors across [...]

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Further to the recent newsletter about the Academy, here’s a blog post and discussion from December that may be of interest…
Writers Academy
It’s a tough old writing world, for sure…

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A comment AMZ made in one of the threads about Quarterlife:
http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/the-great-final-draft-giveaway-2/2007/10/24/
reminds me of a discussion we were having and I’ve been meaning  to write about for a while.
It’s fairly clear to me and a lot of the TV people I know that our future as writers/producers/directors is heavily bound up with the future of the [...]

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I’m getting a lot of emails from people telling me about appalling experiences with screenwriting competitions.
The process of sending your script off plus an (often high) entry fee to what appears to be a very reputable competition, then hearing nothing, ever - or even receiving actually abusive coverage - seems far too common.
I find it [...]

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I have had quite a few people ask how they can stop their scripts, or part of their scripts, being stolen.
There’s quite a few sides to this issue - not all of them are obvious.
A. Until you get an agent I don’t think you can practically do much more to protect yourself than by [...]

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Some of you have been saying words to the effect that: “it’s all very well writing the best screenplay in the world, but I’ll never be able to handle those hard nosed studio types, so what’s the point of even starting?”
Well, here’s what you do… Assume through hook or by crook, or by deal with [...]

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Here’s a question: “How do I get Company ABC to read my script when I am only an XYZ?”
Here’s my answer:
“The problem isn’t that you’re “only” an XYZ, the problem isn’t even that they won’t read your script, because an awful lot of companies actually will read your submission (even though it may take them [...]

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