✍🏻 Writer’s quotes to live by
“You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.” - Octavia E. Butler
✍🏻 Screenwriter Kat Wood Sell “Delivery” Pitch To Skydance
Kat Wood has secured a deal that was reported to be in the mid to high six figures for a spy thriller entitled Diplomatic Courier. The pitch that will be written is said to be a Jason Bourne-type action film set in the world of diplomatic couriers.
You’ll be entering the high stakes world of trained government messengers with diplomatic immunity who travel the world delivering highly confidential packages and materials.
Wood is represented by Verve, which right now is one of the agencies which seems to have the spec and pitch marketplace all to itself.
Here’s hoping that these government couriers are more efficient than the douchebag that continues to be my Postmates delivery guy… not only is he chronically late, he even takes tiny rat-like bites out of my food ( but that’s a story for another day). And how even, do I continuously get the same guy, each and every time?!!
✍🏻 Fox & ABC Shake Up “Pilot Season” Production
With alternative media streamers, i.e. Netflix/Hulu/Amazon wooing our attention away from network television, execs who CONTINUOUSLY stick with the notion that releasing content on a weekly basis is still a viable idea, are at least finally looking to shake up how pilot season is enacted on a development level.
Instead of rolling out 8-10 new television shows, for 3 on an average basis to survive the renewal process, TV networks will be looking at how to develop more limited/off shoot series.
Broadcast network bosses have once again promised to “bust the pilot cycle”.
Speaking at the HRTS The Network Chiefs lunch, ABC Entertainment President Karey Burke said, the current system doesn’t still serve the broadcast universe.
“The sheer fierce competition for shared talent that we go through is not good for the talent. I don’t think we’re serving the creators well or serving the audience well. It’s gotten even more contracted from what I remember a decade or so. We’re trying to break out of it; we’re making a bunch of pilots this summer as we always do, but I would love to bust the cycle.”
The newly single broadcast network wanted to be “off-cycle as quickly as possible”. This means a new quirky way for development in the network television industry.
With the television developmental process being reverted to an all year round process, does that make the writing process easier or harder for writers?
Talk to me Rockstars, will this move create more opportunities for talented writers? Or is this just more of the same?
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