Archive for June, 2009

How much time did you spend today in traffic?  Browsing the internet?  Watching television?  If you consider yourself a writer, there’s no excuse for you to not spend at least 60 solid minutes writing.  Every day.  Get into the habit and don’t deviate.   Writers write.  Or at least stare out windows, as the axiom goes.  Find the time in your life, at least 60 minutes each day, to write.  Even if that just means sitting in front of the screen thinking about your script.  Stephen Covey says “Time Management is a misnomer the challenge is to manage ourselves.”  Learn to manage yourself.  Find the time to write!

One page = approximately one minute of screen time.  So 120 pages = approximately 120 minutes.  What agent, producer, actor, or script reader wants to read more than that?  They’re busy people!  Don’t come off as an unprofessional hack.  Keep it between 90 and 120 pages.  And that means 1″ margins all around, and 12-point Courier New or Final Draft Courier for the font.

Welcome to Spec Script Screenwriting!  This is Brian from Screenplay Readers, with a new blog to help keep screenwriters in the loop with screenwriting news, insights script tips from script readers, spec script sales, screenwriting events, and other good shiznit!  Stay tuned as we grow this blog from zero to 60.  And feel free to get involved by adding your articles and comments to the mix.  You can log in with your Facebook ID, so there’s no need to register!  Welcome, screenwriters, and fans of screenwriting!  More soon!

Brian