• Do the ideas for your projects originate with you? Or do others bring them to you? [Ken Raskoff]
• How do writers come to your attention? How do you pick the writer for a project? [Ken Raskoff]
• Do you allow submittals of pitches [from writers] for movies of the week? (I am referring to the one paragraph/logline summary statements.) [Ken Raskoff]
• How often do you begin with a writer's idea, or spec script? [Ken Raskoff]
• If you find an idea interesting, do you work with screenwriters to get those into development? Or do you prefer fully written scripts? [Ken Raskoff]
• Does it matter to you where the writer lives? (i.e., do they have to be in Los Angeles?) [Ken Raskoff]
• How easy is it for new writers to break into writing MOWs? [Ken Raskoff]
• Are MOW pitches to networks more common from agents or from producers? How often are pitches from writers entertained? [Ken Raskoff]
• What makes an idea saleable to a network? [Ken Raskoff]
• Can an idea be sold on the basis of a certain star or director's interest in the script? [Ken Raskoff]
  

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SCREENPLAY PROPOSALS

• A Pre-Submission Checklist [David Trottier]
• Making a Good First Impression (in script query letter) [Wendy Moon]
• The Secret to a Winning Query [Wendy Moon]
• Writing Bad Log Lines [Wendy Moon]
• How to Write a Really Good Logline [Wendy Moon]
• Before You Send That Script [David Trottier]
• brads, or metal binders for scripts [Screenwriting FAQ]
• Common Submission Errors [David Trottier]
• Writing the screenplay proposal (and screenplay format) [Cyber Film School]
• The Danger In Unsolicited Material [Ivan Hoffman]
• The screenwriting query letter [Connie Adams - from Screenwriters & Playwrights Home Page]
• Ten Commandments of pitching [Barry Morrow - from Screenwriters & Playwrights Home Page]
• Conventional Advice that Wouldn't Work for Me [Patricia Duffy Novak]
• Query Woes [SCRNWRIT FAQ]
• Log Lines [SCRNWRIT FAQ]
  
• "The Cinematic Eye, #"11 [Charles Shelton]
• "The Cinematic Eye, #"15 [Charles Shelton]

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SCRIPT REGISTRATION

• WGA script registration [Screenwriting FAQ]
• Safe and Secure [WGA]
  (The official, authorized, true story of script registration)
  

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TREATMENTS AND OUTLINES

• Outline 1 [SCRNWRIT FAQ]
• Outline 2 [SCRNWRIT FAQ]
• The Treatment (and the Spec) [SCRNWRIT FAQ]
• writing the treatment [Lou Grantt]
  

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SYNOPSIS

• Synopsis - How to make your story as intriguing in summary as it is at full length. [Crawford Kilian]
• Writing A Story Synopsis [Bill Johnson]
  (Tips on how to write a synopsis that clearly identifies the dramatic issues at stake in a story.)
• How to write a synopsis [Rebecca Sinclair]
• Synopsis [SCRNWRIT FAQ]
  

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SPECS

• "The Spec Script" [Andrea Leight Wolf- from Screenwriters Utopia]

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PRODUCERS AND PITCHING

• Making pitches via email [Charles Deemer]
• What to do when you meet with a producer who might be interested in your screenplay [Patrick Wallace - from Screenwriters & Playwrights Home Page]
• What is the perfect screenwriting pitch? [WGA]
• The art of pitching [J.Pepper Berry - from Screenwriters & Playwrights Home Page]
• What does an independent producer expect from a writer's pitch? [Steven Blacher - from Screenwriters & Playwrights Home Page]
• THE ART OF THE DEAL (PART I) [ScriptTutor]
• THE "DEAL KILLER" [ScriptTutor]
• The Pitch [SCRNWRIT FAQ]
  

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REJECTIONS (SCREENPLAYS)

• Development Exec Myths (reasons Development Execs reject scripts) [Alex Epstein]
  

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MARKETING OF PLAYS

• Submission of Scripts [Playwriting Seminars]
• - Letter of Inquiry [Playwriting Seminars]
• - Résumés for Playwrights [Playwriting Seminars]
• - Synops is [Playwriting Seminars]
• - - Rules for The Synopsis [Playwriting Seminars]
• - - - Synopsis Example [Playwriting Seminars]
• - SASE [Playwriting Seminars]
• - Record Keeping [Playwriting Seminars]

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