Not sure how to do so? Check out my previous blog post 3 REASONS THE SCREENWRITERS PERSONAL STORY IS SO IMPORTANT. Heroes and Villains founder Markus Goerg once espoused to me in an interview (and I am paraphrasing here): Your first story is your own, so tell it well. Your personal narrative comes to answer the age-old command: “Tell me about yourself!” Your job is to be unique and memorable via the personal anecdotes you choose to share.
To learn more about how to land representation, check out my previous blog posts in this series, HOW TO GET A SCREENWRITING AGENT and HOW TO GET A SCREENWRITING MANAGER.įor this blog post, let’s focus on preparing for your rep meeting once you do get that kind of interest. How does a baby writer get on my radar? It’s someone in the business that I talk to with regularity saying, “This is someone that I think is exciting, and I’ve read their material myself and I think it’s great, and I think you’d be a match, and you know, you should look at this.””īut I digress. Still, it’s important to remember that this is a relationship business, in which referrals are king.Īs renowned TV manager Zadoc Angell of Echo Lake Entertainment told me when I interviewed him for my book BREAKING IN: TALES FROM THE SCREENWRITING TRENCHES: Manager meetings happen by referrals as well, but can also be initiated through an online pitch (via such services as Stage 32 or Roadmap Writers, query letters (check out my blog post, TO QUERY OR NOT TO QUERY), through high profile competition placements or entry into the prestigious TV or feature writing programs. The agent will have had the writer referred to them by a manager, a lawyer, a showrunner, a producer, a studio or network executive, or the organizer of a screenwriting competition or writing program. Sitting with a writing client in just such a situation the other day, I was reminded once again, as I often am, of all that the writer should think about when preparing for such a meeting.įirst, and just as importantly, how does an agent or manager meeting come about?Īgent meetings come to be usually, and almost exclusively, through referrals. It’s a good time in a career coach’s life when a lot of clients who didn’t previously have representation are getting ready for agent or manager meetings for the first time in their writing journey, or else, getting ready for rep meetings and wanting to do it right this time, as opposed to how they’d done it in the past, when they signed with an agent or manager, and the relationship went absolutely nowhere.
#Getting an agent as a screenwriter series#
A part of the BREAKING IN: REPRESENTATION series
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