Given the cost of other more direct services, I submit my features and tele series scripts to open writing gigs. To date nothing. Is it worth the effort?
Screenwriting : It seems cost effective to submit to open writing gigs but does it work? by Roberta M Roy
Owner, operator at ALVA Press, Inc. ♦ Screenwriter, Publisher, Author
7 months ago
It seems cost effective to submit to open writing gigs but does it work?
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Hi, Roberta M Roy. I think submitting to open writing gigs is worth the effort. Move chances to get a script optioned/sold.
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Thank you both for the encouragement and direction:)
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You're welcome, Roberta M Roy.
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Hello Roberta M Roy I have to agree with Maurice Vaughan the more eyes on your script the better, still worth the effort to find those open opportunities.
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Stage 32 OWA are not really OWA- more like spec submissions that meet exec/company's agenda.
What's plan B, Plan C, Plan D... if you choose to use other script services?
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I believe that all script services require scripts meet expectations as described in listing Dan MaxXx.
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I've yet to hear of any great success from OWAs. "And just like that... Brock stopped talking."
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As long as your spec is tight-tight-tight before sending to OWAs, it's a good route for a possible in. More eyes, yadda yadda... but it's also a chance to burn a bridge if the spec isn't quite there yet. Just be sure :-)
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You have to see script marketing like dating with the intent to fall in love; that magic alignment can happen in a million different ways, and the route it finally happens through will always seem a bargain in retrospect. Due to that dynamic, it's impossible for people to say what works and what doesn't.
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There are many threads about the “OWAs”
They are mini contests and judged as such, so go into them with the expectation of a contest.
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It is about as cost-effective as buying lottery tickets. I don't waste my time doing either one.