Where Do You Send Your Script for Feedback? You’ve got a feature script over 130 pages, or a 1-hr TV pilot over 70 pages. Where do you send it for feedback? Well, not to us. Why Coverage Ink Has a Page Limit So why doesn’t Coverage Ink accept feature scripts over 130 pages, or 1-hr…
The protagonist plans a difficult, daring heist… and everything goes smoothly. The protagonist wants nothing more than to land the coveted promotion they have worked for… and they do. The protagonist is terrified of screwing up this all-important date… but it’s all rainbows and unicorns. Hmmm… what’s wrong with this picture? You guessed it: a…
Seven considers so far, with around 250 more submissions still to evaluate. Reading will continue throughout the summer! How about a hand for these seven amazing writers? Ari Donnelly – POWER COUPLE (half-hour comedy pilot) – a hilarious, over-the-top, will-they-or-won’t-they love story between a snarky female superhero and her arch nemesis. A ridiculously fun, fresh voice driving…
Hey, I’m Writing a Film Script for the First Time. Can You Help Me? We got this message the other day, and it kind of made our head spin a bit. We decided to answer it in the most no-BS way possible. That is such a broad question we could spend many hours answering it….
We figured this might happen. After almost three months of reading Get Repped Now submissions (and finding only three “considers” in that time,) boom – three more just this week. That has to do with many of you polishing and resubmitting at deadline (nice!) And of course other folks simply wait until the last minute…
Where are we in the process? What have we learned? The answer to the first question: we are deluged. Hundreds of script submissions are still waiting to be covered. If you haven’t gotten your analysis yet (and that’s most of you), rest assured, we’re on it. We’ll be reading through the summer. Once every screenplay and pilot…
This year has been especially tough for emerging as well as established screenwriters. TV in particular has taken a massive hit as the bottom has finally fallen out of streaming, with 40% fewer writers working in TV than at this time last year. Yikes. Theatrical features have suffered as well, with many “sure thing” movies…
Students of the biz know that superhero-anything right now is in a bad place. Unless the project is based on well-known source material, they’re super tough to get read right now. They’re right down there with WWII movies and period dramas in terms of not-so-much marketability. And so it was that none of the CI…
The spec market is finally showing signs of life, after a long period where many pro writers had to resort to bagging groceries to keep the rent paid. If your script is a tight consider, you will hopefully get reads and doors will open. But wait — there’s one other important part of this, and…
I read something just the other day that gave me pause. In fact, it triggered this article. The writer wrote something like this: INT. PETE’S CAR – DAY Pete eats a sandwich while he makes a phone call. Okay, so what’s wrong with that? It paints a picture. We can see the…