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120 | Professional Writers Share What You're Just "Supposed" To Know

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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How to Avoid Getting Fired for TV Staffing

Yiker Rooney: Have a really good attorney who looks at your contracts and closes loopholes. If casting tells you they can't find the ethnicity of the actor you specifically wrote the part for, you can totally ask them to please look again. The next one is assume that when you're on the phone with your rep, their assistant is listening. And another writer ad for a notes call, assume all the execs are there even if they don't introduce themselves or say hi.

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