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Going through these Two Bits emails is good. I read a lot of discussions and deleted a lot of old emails. Cleaning out my emails is good. I feel good to do something different that I haven't done in awhile.
Writing tip: I was on Two Bits writing group on Linked In and found this:
Tamara Rager: Writers are like beef, their words are worth more per pound after they have been slaughtered. So share, edit, revise and rewrite.
Deana Rodriquez likes this.
Amy Polaski: A graphic image to consider. So, do you consider yourself ground beef or fillet mignon?
Me: lol.
Dramatic agents: From the Two Bits group, I learned I need to find a dramatic agent to promote my script.
Publishing: I read the books section in my newspapers. I read the articles
about
self-publishing, digital publishing, ebooks. Did you know that Fifty Shades of Grey was a self-published book and then it grew in popularity due to word of mouth? I haven't read it.
Poetry Institute of Canada: I mentioned earlier that I got my short story "Chase" published by the Poetry Institute of Canada. The anthology is called From Across the River. I got in Jan. of this year, and read very little of it. Now this month I started reading it.
I feel good reading it. There are a lot of good stories in here.
Sept. 4 Producers: Today is my day off so I pitched my The Vertex Fighter
script to a producer. I found him a few days ago. I also emailed
another producer if they have any new projects. They have emailed
months ago to contact them in Sept.
I
went on Linked In to add the first producer into my network. I also
joined the group Angel Investors where TV producers are in it.
iUniverse.com: I found this ad
for the
self-publishing company called iUniverse in The Writer's Chronicle. The ad has a picture of crumpled up pieces of paper in a garbage can and the words "The next great American Novel?"
I
don't really want to write a book. Maybe an anthology of short stories
and poems. I haven't written any of that since I was in college for my
Creative Writing and Creative Non-fiction class. I have kept some
stories that are in a drawer, and some on my blog. I got a two short
stories and a poem published from the Poetry Institute of Canada.
Writing for the screen is in my area of
interest.
There
must be a law of attraction working, because later today I was looking
up an Amazon article, and there was an ad for iUniverse.
Rejected books: Florine Church sent me this article called "40 Famous Manuscripts that were Rejected at First." Some included Harry Potter, Twilight, and The Princess Diaries. Some books were self-published first
before a
publishing company took it.
Amazon studios: I
was going through my newspaper clippings and found this from May 3,
2012. It's about the internet company Amazon that is developing comedy
and kids TV shows and distribute it over the video's streaming service.
Here's an article about it:
My question is: "Where do I pitch to them?" I'm looking for an email address and I found this blog instead.
The Bitter Script Reader:
This is a guy who works a script reader for years, and he is writing
about how the Amazon company is scamming writers out of their money:
"-- umm, so writers submit work to a company, and the company abides by
the terms of the agreement and there is absolutely NOTHING to suggest
they are going to rip off the writers in monetary terms, but that is
somehow chilling?"
He's
a prolific writer because he has 20 posts a month up. I'll bookmark
his blog. So it looks like I won't be pitching to Amazon. I don't have
a comedy or a kids show idea, but I would like to know who to pitch
to. I'll look at other companies.
Sept.
5: The producer I pitched to emailed me back and we're connected on
Linked In now. That balances out the other producer who said they
didn't have any
projects.
The Writer's Union of Canada:
I was going through Two Bits Linked In group, and it mentioned this.
It says "The national organization of professionally published book
authors." There are contests, but you have to send $29 for an entry fee
to submit to them.
Sept. 6 Pitch package: I found this piece of paper where I wrote about creating a pitch package for The Vertex
Fighter. It mentioned that I'm supposed to put the MMA fighter Kit Cope's bio in it since he's attached to the project.
On the same paper, it said:
1. Get a production assistant job.
2. Demanding, fast paced restaurant job would fit into a TV studio job.
In
2008, I did a job interview at a TV production company. In 2009, I
wrote down in my agenda to do
that. Now I wrote it down in 2011. It's in 2012, I really pushed it
and applied to those. I'm going back in my mind of how I didn't apply
so much.
In 2011, I did start The Vertex Fighter blog and read and took notes on how to produce a TV show, and put those notes on the blog.
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