ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book. The book explores questions about breaking new writers, selling specs and pilots, representation relationships, the validity of contests and television writing programs, and much more. It synthesizes the same invaluable, screenwriter-specific industry information that brought into coaching practice and building on it, in a manner that will help to learn more about the practical ways in which writers have broken into the industry following the famed 2008 WGA strike. In the Screenwriter Spotlights, screenwriter will learn about each writer's unique journey to becoming a screenwriting professional, what they experienced and learned, and how they came to work in the film and television industry today. There are endless celebrated stories out there about how many of our most famed professional screenwriters broke in the 1980s and 1990s.
