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Ask the Screenplay Doctor: New Year’s Resolutions

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 14:12 – admin
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Screenplay columnist Susan Kouguell gives you a few New Year's Resolutions to get your next screenplay headed in the right direction. E-mail screenwriter@newenglandfilm.com to have your screenwriting question answered in an upcoming issue.

By Susan Kouguell

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I’ll let you in on a secret -- I know what most of my Su-City Pictures East, LLC clients and students are hoping for in 2012:

“This is going to be the year I sell my screenplay!”

If you are among the many aspiring screenwriters who share this same hope and dream, then this is the time to make your screenwriting resolutions!

Resolutions

  1. I will take pride in my work: I am going to keep writing screenplays that I feel passionate about.
  2. I will be open to feedback: I will give my script to readers whom I trust will tell me the truth about my work and consider their opinions and suggestions.
  3. I will be patient: I will only submit my screenplay to a script competition, agent, manager, production company, or film executive, when I know it is absolutely, positively, without a shadow of a doubt, ready to be reviewed by industry professionals.
  4. I will be professional: I will always submit a script that has been proofread and contains no formatting errors whatsoever, and that has been registered with the Writers Guild of America.
  5. I will have courage: I will not be afraid to ask for a contract and have a lawyer review it to make sure that I am protected.
  6. I will persevere: If I receive a rejection letter (once I have made sure I have been true to resolutions one through five), I am going to remain optimistic and send my script to the next person or company on my list that is an absolute match for my screenplay.

Good luck!

Wishing you all a happy and healthy 2012 and success in all your New Year’s resolutions!

Susan Kouguell’s new book SAVVY CHARACTERS SELL SCREENPLAYS! A comprehensive guide to crafting winning characters with film analyses and screenwriting exercises is available at a discount price of $1.00 off by clicking on www.createspace.com/3558862 and using DISCOUNT CODE: G22GAZPD. To read an excerpt from the book, go to: https://www.createspace.com/Preview/1089452.

Susan is also the author of The Savvy Screenwriter: How to Sell Your Screenplay (and Yourself) Without Selling Out! and is an award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker. Susan teaches screenwriting and film at Tufts University, and is chairperson of Su-City Pictures East, LLC, a motion picture consulting company founded in 1990 where she works with over 1,000 writers, filmmakers, and film executives worldwide. ( www.su-city-pictures.com; su-city-pictures.blogspot.com).

You can follow my Su-City Pictures, LLC Facebook fan page and SKouguell Twitter page to receive more Savvy Tips about how to write, structure, and sell your screenplay.

Wed, 01/04/2012 - 08:01 — Bradfordrich

Fantastic Screenwriter Resolutions!

Thank you Susan! I plan to put these resolutions into practice. Especially #1 : )