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mainer

(12,583 posts) Mon Feb 28, 2022, 04:23 PM Feb 2022

Any other members of Writers Guild of America here?

I was recently accepted as a member (WGA-E), and I'd love to hear about experiences in Hollywood from other screenwriters. So far my first work with a studio is going pretty smoothly, already greenlit and going to casting, but I know there are lots of heartbreaking tales of greenlit projects that then vanished into oblivion.

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Any other members of Writers Guild of America here? (Original Post) mainer Feb 2022 OP

Oh wow!!! padah513 Feb 2022 #1

In this business, success is also a matter of luck mainer Feb 2022 #2

Am I in it? I'm ready for my closeup. ret5hd Feb 2022 #3

Congrats! SheltieLover Feb 2022 #4

❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️ Lucinda Jun 2022 #5

Well, as is the usual journey in TV/film... mainer Jun 2022 #6

padah513

(2,711 posts)

1. Oh wow!!!

Reply to mainer (Original post)

Mon Feb 28, 2022, 04:26 PM

Feb 2022

Congrats on your success.

mainer

(12,583 posts)

2. In this business, success is also a matter of luck

Reply to padah513 (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 28, 2022, 04:29 PM

Feb 2022

And it's never guaranteed. I wrote a script on a lark (it's not my usual writing form) and was surprised when it got picked up.

ret5hd

(22,588 posts)

3. Am I in it? I'm ready for my closeup.

Reply to mainer (Reply #2)

Mon Feb 28, 2022, 04:39 PM

Feb 2022

SheltieLover

(81,761 posts)

4. Congrats!

Reply to mainer (Original post)

Mon Feb 28, 2022, 08:06 PM

Feb 2022

Lucinda

(31,170 posts)

5. ❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️

Reply to mainer (Original post)

Tue Jun 21, 2022, 12:02 AM

Jun 2022

mainer

(12,583 posts)

6. Well, as is the usual journey in TV/film...

Reply to mainer (Original post)

Tue Jun 21, 2022, 10:16 AM

Jun 2022

it has taken a left turn.

I've been paid well, the TV film was greenlit, they hired a director, they were going to casting ...

And then the TV channel changed direction and decided not to air any more police procedurals for now (as the one they aired a few months ago bombed horribly. Nothing to do with us.)

So -- I've sold the script, got THIS close ... and now it's all on hold. A similar story told by screenwriters everywhere.

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