The Path to Getting Your Screenplay Sold
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The Path to Getting Your Screenplay Sold
One of the most asked questions in screenwriting is “How do I sell a screenplay?”
Over the last 10 years, I’ve interviewed many produced screenwriters and they all went through their own version of the following steps as they made their first sale.
Those steps are:
1. A well-written script that is marketable.
2. A pitch.
3. A market.
4. An “in” into the market.
5. A negotiation that leads to a sale.
Of course, each of those steps can be fulfilled in many ways. My purpose in presenting this article is to help you easily recognize opportunities when they arrive and quickly surmise what might be stopping you from succeeding.
Let’s look at some details on those five steps.
