I recently had the pleasure of chatting with Melessa Sargent, CEO of Scriptwriters Network. If you’re unfamiliar, for the last 36 years this 501(c)3 nonprofit has been hosting networking events, panels, seminars, and outreach programs and building community among screenwriters. With the events of 2020-2022 finally in the rear-view, they have resumed in-person events. The…
Lessons from Previous Years Get Repped Now! returns on 3/11/24. This gives all of us a little time to prepare and make sure we’re ready to rock. You can find a detailed analysis of the most common script problems of a previous GRN right here and a general checklist of things to consider before sending…
Screenwriter Becky Fink blew us all away here at Coverage Ink with her clever little holiday rom/com “Stuck on Christmas,” which she submitted to Get Repped Now in 2022. Logline: After a one-night stand during a Christmas Eve blizzard on the way to her mother’s house, a hot mess of a woman who’s been…
Every now and again you hear something that for lifts one’s beleaguered, stomped-into-the-dirt screenwriter spirits and acts as a candle in the dark. This is one of those stories. Meet screenwriter Brian Ruberry. Ruberry is one of the panelists of our upcoming It’s a Wonderful Script Zoominar this Saturday. He’d been writing for most of…
Our Halloween horror-themed Zoominar SCARY GOOD: The Business of Horror Screenwriting, is now available on demand on our Vimeo channel. Featuring a panel of horror experts – writers, producers, and a manager – talking about what works and what doesn’t, how to get your script noticed, and how to get it out there. PANEL Ian…
Fellow storytellers, 2017 is a wrap, and thank Jeebus. I mean, it was pretty much a trainwreck of a year as far as the planet is concerned. For me personally, it wasn’t so terrible. Made a lot of progress with business ventures and hell, made a movie (we just completed animation this week, yay!). Home…
By Jim Cirile Coverage Ink Ho ho ho, and a bottle of rum! Yes, it’s that most wonderful time of year, when we all spend money we don’t have on obligatory tchotchkes for our loved ones. But gulp – what if one of those loved ones is — horror of horrors — a screenwriter?…