3-2-1 Screenwriting: Teammates, The Closest We’ll Get to Happiness & The Spec Market

3 IDEAS FROM ME

I.

“A team will nearly always beat an individual.”

​II.

“Sometimes networking can feel icky, like you’re using people. Here’s a mindset shift:

Who do you want on your team?

Teammates support each other. They don’t use each other”

III.

Good News & Bad News:

Good News: The Spec market seems to be picking up slightly!!

Bad News: There’s next to no diversity in the line up regarding who wrote these specs + they’re pretty much all from established writers.

Let’s remember that trends come and go - and this is a game full of exceptions to the rule. You could be the one to break the mold.

2 QUOTES FROM OTHERS

I.

From Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi:

“Getting control of life is never easy, and sometimes it can be definitely painful. But in the long run optimal experiences add up to a sense of mastery—or perhaps better, a sense of participation in determining the content of life—that comes as close to what is usually meant by happiness as anything else we can conceivably imagine.

​II.

From Dialogue: The Art of Verbal Action for Page, Stage, and Screen by Robert McKee:

“All talk responds to a need, engages a purpose, and performs an action. No matter how seemingly vague and airy a speech may be, no character ever talks to anyone, even to himself, for no reason, to do nothing. Therefore, beneath every line of character talk, the writer must create a desire, intent, and action.”

1 QUESTION FOR YOU

Would writing still be worthwhile to you if you never hit broad/commercial success?

Until next week,
Kate Gaulke​​​
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p.s. ​Potoooooooo​​​