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Posts Tagged with ‘selling’

  • How to get what you want – negotiating tricks

    22 Jan 2015

    In case you missed it, there’s an article you really should read on negotiating tricks and how to get what…

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  • Two simple ways to add power to your pitching

    10 Sep 2013

    If you want to pitch with power, here are two powerful ingredients that are often forgotten by script gurus although they are used to powerful effect in almost every successful TV drama or cinema film.

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  • 3 Ways to Make Sure Your Script Stands Out

    09 Jan 2013

    Despite what most writers think, most scripts fail to sell not because they are too different, but because they are…

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  • Six Things You Need To Know About Treatments

    03 Nov 2012

    If you want to write for film or TV, then treatments, outlines, synopses (the terms are interchangeable in the industry) are something you have to get good at. And to write good treatments there are six things you'll need to know.

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  • Three things you need to improve your script sales

    28 Aug 2012

    IMPROVE YOUR SCRIPT SALES Back from hols and the first thing on my to-do list is to go out and…

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  • Three Tips for Writing Treatments

    05 Feb 2012

    Writing a good, compelling, readable treatment is tough. It's difficult enough to write a script - but then to boil the whole thing down from 90+ pages to one or two...! However it's a crucial part of a screenwriter's job. Here are three of my top tips.

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  • Why do some scripts sell, and some don’t?

    14 Jan 2012

    Many people ask me if they should learn about selling and pitching scripts before they start writing, or after they’ve…

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  • How to land a top star and the BBC with one treatment

    13 Sep 2011

    Most people hate writing treatments. Not me, I love them. This is how I used a treatment to hook a top star comedian and the BBC in just five pages - and how you can too.

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  • Want to succeed? Maybe do the opposite.

    30 Aug 2011

    Have you heard of Kelly Marcel? If not yet, you soon will. You'll probably, if you're like me, be deeply and painfully jealous. And something she said recently might teach us something important.

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  • If you want to sell your script, don’t get stuck on the bridge

    26 Jul 2011

    IS YOUR SCRIPT STUCK ON THE BRIDGE? Back from holiday, I’ve been thinking about a massive underpublicised reason why far…

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