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Star Wars Episode 1 – dissected by a serial killer

Not only is this hilarious and utterly genius, it’s also highly useful to anyone who wants to become a writer. A must watch.



Laredo. A quarter of a million people and no bookstore.

It’s hard to maintain a career as a writer when places make decisions like this.

A major metropolitan area has decided to close its last bookstore.

LA Times.



Spec Sales – state of the screenplay market 2009

Jason Scoggins at Protocol (featured on Nikki Finke) has put together a rough list of spec screenplay sales for the year. It’s not good. Everyone in the business knows it’s not been good. These aren’t the figures I heard, but they’re pretty close. (For those who don’t know, a spec sale is where a writer writes a screenplay first and then tries to sell it, as opposed to how a lot of movies are made, where the studio has bought material based on a pitch, or property and then commissions the screenplay)



Greenwriter.org

No idea what this site is like. They sent me an email as though I’m a member, which I wasn’t, but I just signed up to see what it’s about.

It’s a forum for buying and selling screenplays. Free for writers. Producers have to pay.




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