S&S LIVE (Ep 4) Building Your Writing Career w/John Zaozirny

Mar 16, 2021

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S&S Live (Episode 4): "Building Your Writing Career" with literary manager and producer John Zaozirny. In this episode we discuss collaborating with a lit manager, thinking about writing as a profession, the steps and stages to building your career as a working writer and answer questions live from the chat.

John on Twitter: https://twitter.com/johnzaozirny

John's Screenwriting Book Recommendations:

Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You Can, Too! by Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant - https://amzn.to/2OsZ8Hw

The Writer Got Screwed (but didn't have to): Guide to the Legal and Business Practices of Writing for the Entertainment Industry by Brooke A. Wharton - https://amzn.to/2Q4Z7dr

Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting by William Goldman - https://amzn.to/3ctSvwv

WATCH the VIDEO version of this Episode: https://youtu.be/lnXnzPLwZCk

NEXT WEEK'S LIVESTREAM EPISODE (S&S Live #5): Diversity in Hollywood w/ Liz Alper (THE ROOKIE, HAWAII 5-0) member of the WGA Board of Directors, Hilliard Guess (SyFy's DEADLY CLASS) Co-Chair of the Committee of Black Writers and Jorge Rivera (APB on Fox) Vice-Chair of the WGA Latino Writers Committee. Saturday 3/20 @ 10 AM PST.

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