Archive | September, 2010

21 September 2010 ~ 0 Comments

The Rewrite Mentor Talks Screenwriting

  Peo­ple are often delu­sional about how seri­ous the com­pe­ti­tion is out in Hol­ly­wood, espe­cially writ­ers. If it took Frank Darabont, an estab­lished screen­writer in his own right, 25 draft­sto cre­ate the Acad­emy Award nom­i­nated script to The Shaw­shank Redemp­tion, what makes you think you can recre­ate the same suc­cess with one? Rewrit­ing is an […]

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10 September 2010 ~ 0 Comments

How to be Streetwise and Book Smart

Thought for the week … If you want to suc­ceed in Hol­ly­wood, be street­wise and book-smart! There is noth­ing more impor­tant than hav­ing a rea­son­able bal­ance of both. Naivety can cost you and not being edu­cated to the level you need to func­tion well in this indus­try can cost you as well. Don’t leave your street-smarts […]

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10 September 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Are you Committed?

In all of my obser­va­tions, and from my own expe­ri­ence, I find that the jour­ney is always the same. It’s a long road of self exam­i­na­tion and improve­ment, skill and tal­ent exam­i­na­tion, train­ing and edu­ca­tion. It’s mak­ing judg­ment calls about peo­ple, things and sit­u­a­tions. You con­tin­u­ally cor­rect the “course” until you are headed in the […]

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08 September 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Fall 2010 Teleseminar Series Announced

Hol­ly­wood Career Strate­gist Tanya Kersey is pleased to announce her Fall 2010 Tele­sem­i­nar Series begin­ning on Wednes­day, Sep­tem­ber 15th and run­ning through mid-November.  Each week Tanya will offer up detailed infor­ma­tion, and share her knowl­edge and exper­tise on a spe­cific Hol­ly­wood career topic. Hi {!firstname_fix} I want to tell you about my Fall 2010 Tele­sem­i­nar Series which […]

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01 September 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Is your script marketable?

Have you con­sid­ered how mar­ketable your script is? Writers con­cen­trate so much on the story, struc­ture, dia­logue and char­ac­ters, that they often for­get to con­sider the mar­ketabil­ity of their script.   Mar­ketabil­ity doesn’t just appear after you’ve writ­ten your screen­play. You have to know how to write a screen­play from a mar­ketabil­ity per­spec­tive. I can’t tell […]

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