Screenwriting

Sean, that's FANTASTIC - Congrats! I'm also relatively new to the site, so I can't answer your questions. However, I'd start looking for info using the Search bar (at the top of the page.) Also, you might try refreshing your Submission page to see if there are any updates (I just learned that's the way it works with Pitching features.) Best of luck to you!

Sean Orlikowski Congratulations on your Double Recommend! That's a fantastic achievement, especially early in your screenwriting journey.

The Look Book is sent to 1,500 executives on a monthly basis. Executives can either request materials directly from us or access them through the platform themselves if you've added the script to your Stage 32 profile.

Regarding feedback and updates: We only reach out to writers when executives request a meeting or ask for additional materials. If an executive simply reviews your script without requesting further action, we don't provide that update to writers. This means the "radio silence" you're experiencing could indicate that while executives may have reviewed your material, none have requested meetings or additional materials at this time or they are simply still reviewing. It can take between 4-8 weeks for us to hear back from the executives. We generally follow up after 2 months to see if they want to set any meetings.

I can confirm that your script was included in the Look Book and sent to our executive network. The process is ongoing, and interest can develop over several months as executives work through their review processes. Additionally, as a Double Recommended writer, you're on our short list of writers to advocate for and we'll keep you projects in mind moving forward to send to executives, producers or reps with specific needs or mandates that may be a fit.

Thank you for the clarification and details, Geoffroy! I'll sit tight and see what comes in.

Sean Orlikowski Thank you for your post. Last month I was pleased to find out I was Double Recommended and in the Look Book! Thank you Stage 32. I'd love to hear about people's success along the way. Tia

Great job, Sean! Atta-Boy!!!

Congratulations on your double recommendations!

Hi Till, cool, I'm a huge martial arts fantasy too

I had a double recommendation for a TV. pilot back in October this year and I haven't heard any feedback yet. I may rewrite my biography in case that wasn't compelling enough. Just in case there is a next double recommend.

Congratulations on getting a double recommendation, Maria Restivo Glassner!

Atta-Boy, Till!!!

Hey, Michael David! You got a lot done this year! Congratulations! I had ghostwriting jobs, pitch deck jobs, wrote short scripts, rewrote scripts (shorts and features), made/redid pitch material, added script ideas to my idea list, networked, took some Stage 32 webinars, read scripts, and pitched projects.

Congratulations and good job on all your hard work! I wrote parts 2 to 4 of Finding Elpis, Glass Waltz, and Lunar Window and also rewrote parts 1 and 2 of Finding Elpis this year. Made finalist with Glass Waltz at the Wiki Screenplay Competition as well as quarterfinalist at Barnstorm with it. A good year for writing overall :)

I love these goals! I'm rooting for everyone to reach them! Happy New Year!

One of my creative goals is to regularly contribute to Writers Rooms.

Ashley Renee Smith I can't wait to hear about your creative adventure! Do Tell when you #DOiT!

I hope to finish two comedy novels & write their screenplays... that's not too overwhelming while hopefully shooting my first feature in April ~ is it?

To be a sponge in the next 30 days by navigating and participating within the Stage 32 community. In the 60 days get a litmus test feedback on my first draft screenplay -The Mat Carrier, whether it sucks or has a chance. In 90 days make my first pitch. The rest of the year seek possible options on bringing my first draft to life. Lastly , to write regularly.

Ashley Renee, here's wishing you all the VERY BEST for 2026...and beyond!

Goals...goals...goals...well, here are mine:

1. Join an in-person table read here in the Omaha/Council Bluffs/Bellevue area.

2. Go to the local film festival...and meet other creatives in the flesh. (It's this coming March.)

3. Come up with three new scripts next year.

4. Get back to Stage 32's browsing section and look for producers and/or directors (instead of trying to find a literary manager and/or an agent).

5. Get "Mental Lockdown" (and/or one of my solo scripts) produced.

Hope 2026 is a great year for you!

I think your logline needs a better structure, Göran Johansson.

OK, I plan to take a new look tomorrow. More comments?

GORAN - You have a production company on hook, you need help. Get somebody on here who will help you for free but get that Logline fixed and get a real synopsis - in fact two synopsis - short and long. No offence intended. Congratulations.

USING YOUR WORDS - FROM 57 TO 29 WORDS

David, your suggested logline. I apologize for causing a misunderstandment. The teleportation is long before she sobers up.

New logline. Is this better, and the company wanted 2-3 sentences rather than 1-2 :

"A female CIA operative needs to heal from the loss of her baby, but also to find the strength to confront her abusive boss and uncle. He tries to use the invention of teleportation to fool her to murder an important person, so she needs to stay sober enough to use the invention to avoid a lifetime in jail."

Synopsis. How much remains to improve upon :

"

The story illustrates that we have relations both with those we meet and those we can't meet.

Pauline, a CIA operative, is haunted by the loss of her baby and manipulated by her uncle and boss, Gunpowder. He demands her to assassinate a powerful figure to prove her loyalty. Reluctant to comply, Pauline's grief leaves her feeling indifferent about her own well-being.

Pauline becomes an unwitting witness when scientist Albert feeds a mathematical formula into a scientific instrument, which accidentally teleports his financier Marlene to the Andromeda Galaxy. Marlene returns after encountering her doppelganger. Bertha, a professor and part-time CIA spy, seeks the scientific instrument to exact revenge on Albert, who accuses her of cheating. To appease her boss, Pauline assists Bertha.

Bertha falls in love with a man in the Andromeda Galaxy, by using Albert's scientific instrument. Pauline is shocked when she realizes that 60 years ago, she had a doppelganger in the Andomeda Galaxy who was sent to jail for murdering Marilyn Monroe. While Gunpowder fools Pauline to believe that her dead baby has a doppelganger at an orphanage in the Andromeda Galaxy.

Trapped by Gunpowder’s lies and emotional abuse, Pauline, desperate to avoid the kill order, teams up with Bertha. They try to coerce Albert and Marlene to teleport them to the Andromeda Galaxy. But Marlene is prepared to fight back since Pauline has earlier stolen business secrets from her company. In the aftermath Pauline finds the strength to confront and expose Gunpowder. With the fall of Gunpowder and Bertha, Pauline shows that she can heal from the loss of her baby.

"

Must-read post, Baron Rothschild! Knowing what the project is, what it isn’t, and what it’s trying to become help me outline the project and get to a final draft.

Appreciate that, Maurice. Orientation has a way of making the work reveal its own next step.

Baron Rothschild I have really enjoyed your posts the last few days. Very interesting and for contemplative people like most creatives, they have the type of information that resonates and returns in brief pieces as other thoughts and ideas triggers your material over time.

I am curious how you would view the idea of how PLOT fits into your contrast of Inspiration vs. Orientation. I am finding that many of my current projects I am working on do not have a defined ending yet but I did not want to stop working on the bolt of inspiration that hit me for the idea initially until i figured out the plot.

Great question, Darrell. Plot is downstream of orientation. When you know what the project is and what it’s trying to become, the plot stops being something you invent and starts being something you uncover. Endings reveal themselves when the project’s identity is stable.

Great post, David B. Williamson! I used to spray and pray with pitches, but it was a waste of time for the most part. I don't have any desire to make movies, shows, etc., so my strategy is research + network + pitch + hook & incredible script.

Absolutely. I’ve learned the same lesson the hard way — volume without intention doesn’t move the needle. The difference really is clarity: knowing who you’re pitching to, why they’d care, and letting the work do the heavy lifting. Appreciate you sharing that perspective.

Bullshit

This is overly dogmatic in tone but there's some truth there. Spray and pray querying is closer to spamming than strategising, and the market place is indeed full of writers looking for a fairy god mother to do all the heavy lifting for them.

That said, cold querying has worked for many, and writers shouldn't be expected to become producers to be taken seriously as artists.

As ever, balance is the answer. Writers pinning all their hopes on cold queries are just as deluded as those putting all their faith in competitions. It's a lottery mentality to something that requires investment.

It really all boils down to the perception of passion we give off. It's surprising how many call writing their life dream but behave apathetically toward it.

Cold querying can work... About as well as throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks. Maybe one or two noodles stick, but the rest is just a mess in the floor.

Networking and making connections, letting folks in the industry see who you are and what you're about, is the first step I think most people should take. I don't want my name on their desk along with another long list of faces they don't know. I want them to see my name and say, "I know that name from somewhere" or "Hey, that's that weird and silly chick on stage 32 that talks about cornbread all the time" or "Hey, I know her, that Southern writer. She seems nice, has a decent attitude - let's see what she can do".

All I need is a spark to get started. I can rub two sticks together (cold querying) or I can get a lighter (networking, targeted pitching).

You're welcome, Shreyans Jain. Great. I also suggest building a portfolio of scripts. Managers and agents like for writers to have a portfolio of scripts. And if a producer, director, executive, etc. passes on Pages of Fugue, you'll have other scripts to pitch to them if they ask to see your other scripts.

Always be ready for the question: 'What else have you got'.

Bravo!

That's a great feeling. Congratulations!

Congratulations! This is truly a great moment that deserves a proper celebration, even a party and a cake.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Aleksandr Rozhnov! Thanks for being active in the community. Congratulations on everything you accomplished in 2025! I hope you accomplish more next year!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too! Hoping this coming year is filled with joy and sold scripts for you!

TV mini series typically can't afford a large number of actors. At least not here in Europe. And I don't think that large numbers of actors are common either in those countries where the budget sometimes is bigger, but feel free to correct me if I am wrong. So if you need a large number of actors, I doubt a TV series will make you happy.

Maurice, I've used that page and contacted many a producer, however, none has responded.

If your idea has a multiple series story engine, it can be TV. If it doesn't it's a movie. Pitching for each is completely different. For the movie you need a great logline, synopsis FULL and script and balls. For TV you also need episode and character layouts in a bible. Cost is a big issue. You have many characters? That's expensive so movie sounds right. Difficult to say without reading the script.

Easier to market? Well, the market for a feature is objectively far larger.

New producers join Stage 32 all the time, Roberta M Roy. Keep searching for them in the Browse Members section. Hope you find a producer!