Introduce Yourself : Constantly working and networking. by Timothy Francis O'Brien

While I'm not a producer, as a fellow writer I'd like to congratulate you on your upcoming novel. I wish you much success.

Thanks.

See, that's what a producer does. They PRODUCE the money, bankable talent and distribution. This business has turned upside down and backwards.

So, basically, I do everything the producer's supposed to do, and then I call them to do what I've already done?

If I had money, I can do most of the rest. I'm not a freaking newbie. I came into the business as an actor, stage director and stunt person. I came in at a time when a writer wrote and a producer produced. It would be nice if producers realized that.

Writer writes

Producers Produce.

The freaking titles tell you what they do. I think this is just an example of producers getting lazy and wanting the writer to do the work and they just come in at the end. I know some great writers who do not have what it takes to be a producer. And in the end, it's not their job to produce.

The end.

What I hear, and what a lot of WRITERS hear, is that producers are bitching about having to do their freaking job. I have made a living rewriting other writer's crap that crappy producers bought. Then they run out of money. Bottom line is that if you're a producer, YOUR job is to produce, not to bitch about having to do your job and complaining about the guy whose job was to WRITE the script not doing your job.

http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/movie-producer2.htm

I don't see anything in there about the Writer doing the Producer's job. BTW, if I had the money, or attachments, or both, I would never call you. I'd produce it myself.

Vitaly, what I don't get, maybe you can elucidate me on this, but what happened to producers who actually produced? I spent years training myself to write. I have dyslexia and ADHD. I started as an actor. That's where I learned how to analyze dialogue. I've gotten rewrite jobs solely based on my ability with dialogue.

BTW, there are a lot of writers who are very talented who will never get produced. That's a fact. I decided to write novels and have one that will come out soon. It's actually based on a script I wrote. My former agent suggested that I do that. I will be novelizing more of them as soon as I get this one finished editing.

Anyway, I don't want this to get acrimonious, and it seems to be going there. I was looking at managers and the one thing that pissed me off so much was when they told me I had to produce a film before they'd look at me as a writer. I almost fell off my chair. I was like, has the world turned upside down?

I'm a writer. I write. I act. I've directed plays and will direct film. If I had the cash, that would have been accomplished.

I have someone in my back pocket who's been in the biz since 67. Currently, he's only producing his son-in-law's projects and not taking on others. However, if I came to him with something, he'd be on it rapidly.