SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: 417 – Have 10 Minutes… You Can Write Your Screenplay
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with Author and fellow Podcaster Pilar Alessandra. Besides being the host of the On The Page Podcast, Pilar Alessandra served as a Script Reader for Amblin Entertainment, which is Steven Spielberg’s company and she was a Senior Story Analyst for Dreamworks.
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with Author and fellow Podcaster Pilar Alessandra.
Besides being the host of the On The Page Podcast, Pilar Alessandra served as a Script Reader for Amblin Entertainment, which is Steven Spielberg's company and she was a Senior Story Analyst for Dreamworks.
They talk about her book, The Coffee Break Screenwriter (now in second edition) and how with only 10 minutes in a day, you can focus on writing during that time and end up with a finished screenplay.
You can listen to the audio portion of the podcast by clicking here or through iTunes by clicking here.
You can also read a transcript of this episode.
Links mentioned in the show:
- Pilar Alessandra on IMDb
- Pilar Alessandra on Twitter
- Pilar Alessandra on Facebook
- Pilar Alessandra on Instagram
- Pilar Alessandra website
- Buy The Book: The Coffee Break Screenwriter
- Follow SYS on TikTok here.
- The SYS script analysis service
- Our free guide, "How to Sell Your Screenplay in 5 Weeks!"
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Ashley Scott Meyers is a screenwriter and blogger / podcaster. Since beginning his career as a screenwriter in the late 1990’s he’s optioned more than two dozen feature screenplays and sold a half dozen. And he’s done it all without an agent or manager, instead opting to use his pragmatic screenplay marketing guide which he teaches at SellingYourScreenplay.com.