Screenwriting Tips, You Hack

Chapter | seventeen

Selling Yourself: Loglines, Queries, and Managers

With all our high-falutin’ talk of screenplay structure and narrative arcs, we writers sometimes lose track of the fact that this is a business. Plus, many of us are completely hopeless when it comes to money, time management, and the nuances of human social interaction. (Which is why we became screenwriters! I kid, I kid.) We dearly want to introduce our work to the world, but sometimes the world just sort of stands there, whistling to itself and pretending it doesn't notice us.

That's why agents and managers were invented. It's the job of these charming and talented people to usher you and your work out of your dimly lit bedroom and into the bright arena of business. If you ...