Comments on: What are Spec Scripts?

By: Jaden

Jaden — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:01:43 +0000

LJ — Thank you so much for your thanks and compliment. I don’t get too many of those around here. ;-) Good luck!

By: LJ

LJ — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:18:06 +0000

Thanks for sharing your script Jaden it took me right back to the SATC days, nice work! I’m about to embark on my very first spec script and this info is really helpful, again thanks for sharing!

By: Jaden

Jaden — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:38:31 +0000

Rate — This seems to be the big roadblock and question everyone has: How can I sell a script or get an agent if I don’t have any connections or references? I agree, it sucks, but it also makes sense. I will write about this today for SfH.

By: Rate

Rate — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:02:14 +0000

I have a spec for It’s Always Sunny in Philly (two, actually) that people seem impressed with. But nobody I send it to (agents, managers) will read unsolicated material. Do I have to move to LA just to get someone to look at my 30 pages? Is everything connections? Will nobody ever read the work of a nobody?

By: Jaden

Jaden — Sun, 22 May 2011 18:15:17 +0000

Whoops! — Sorry about your arm.

Hopefully Charmed didn’t steal your idea and it was just a coincidence, which means you wrote well and were on the right track.

Did you have a specific contact there or talk to a human about it ever? If it was not returned to you unopened and you never heard from anyone about it, it may have just been put directly in the trash. I’ve worked at TV networks and Film studios, they try to return most mail unopened, but I am sure some employees just throw it away out of laziness. Rarely is unsolicited unexpected mail read. People don’t have the time or interest.

Typically, it takes much longer than 2 months to turn around a story: to write it, get it approved, put it into production, act it, film it, edit it, and get it on TV.

Let’s just hope for the goodness of humanity that it was one of those oddly timed life coincidences.

But yes, always copyright just to be safe, as theft certainly does and can happen.