I made my first short film in 1999. It got sold for TV broadcast. Selling your first short is almost unheard of. Since then I have other shorts up to 40 minutes long on TV, and have won 14 awards at festivals. To win awards, the writing has to be good.
Now I want to sell one or more of my feature scripts to Hollywood. I found out it is hard to do, but not impossible. I do know that I am on the right track with my huge email list and the tips I share in my ebook. I offer it now at a low price to help others and to help with my bills. I confidently offer it with a money back guarantee because I know it is a good deal.
Sincerely, Steve Cosmic
The article below got banned from reddit
and I don't know why.
Finding an agent or a producer, seems like the biggest problem.
If there is such a thing as a perfect script, it is useless if it stays in your computer until you get a new computer and then gets put on an external hard drive and almost forgotten. Printing a hard copy and keeping it in your filing cabinet doesn't help either. Also, I think, believe, and have heard, that every script ever produced gets changed a bit before it is produced. This can be during the planning stages, or just a few minutes or hours or days before a scene is filmed.
What I'm getting at, is if you have a unique concept or something very unusual, different or weird even, and you've written a script about it, just stop. Next spend time, energy and money even, on finding an agent or producer.
When you start looking for an agent or producer, and read about how to do it, you'll hear a bunch of blah blah blah about networking, creating relationships, and researching agents and producers and sending it only to the right ones. Oh, and they also tell you to get someone to recommend you, and presumably this is by networking. Well, what if you don't know someone who knows someone who knows someone who can recommend you? I sure don't.
And anyone I'm likely to "network" with doesn't know anybody either. Maybe there is someone here who identifies with this?
There is an option, scorned by "experts" who have never had anything produced, but have read everything about how you are "supposed" to do it. That option is making mass emailings to lists of agents and producers. It starts with a catchy query letter. Yes, most will go into the junk folder, but every once in a while someone might like your query and then ask for a logline. This is what I've been doing, and I am getting requests for loglines. I haven't sold a screenplay yet, but this has been the most productive approach for me so far. I plan to keep doing it. I recently sent a query letter to about 900 agents and got a request for loglines, and I sent them 5. As their reply to me was kind and serious, I took the liberty of making my loglines a bit longer than "recommended". I am expecting replies now.
One more thought by me.... on feedback. Think about the script for Edward Scissorhands. If the writer asked for people on reddit to read it, would people offering "improvements" really help? After the producer decided to produce it, how many changes were made before shooting it? I don't know of course. In a nutshell, I think it is better to think unique, rather than thinking perfection. The money people will make changes, that's how it is. After you have had some big screenwriter sales, you might be able to insist on no changes.
