Tales of a Hollywood Screenwriter

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Tired of waiting?

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Spyder Dobrofsky
Dec 15, 2023
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Morning. You tired of waiting for your big break?

You should be.

Waiting is a dangerous game in Hollywood.

The thing about being a writer, or a director, or a creative, is that you MUST (emphasis on the *must) tell your stories. They need to get out of your head, and onto the page, and eventually onto film, and one day, onto a little or big screen.

But what if nobody’s reading?

Nobody’s biting.

Lots of silence, a few ‘we like the writing’, maybe even a jerk off general (they’re not jerk-off meetings, but it is a catchy term).

How do you guarantee your big break in this Wild West of an industry?

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