WARNING TO SCREENWRITERS: Beware of THE HAPPY WRITERS, (Stage 32) Joey
Tuccio. They claim to offer online and verbal pitches to development
executives, agents and managers. I recently bought a written pitch
service for $45. After a few days I was sent back a standard rejection;
PASS that made no sense at all.
It said that the my pitch took TOO
LONG to get to the logline. My logline was at the very top of the
pitch! It also said that I needed to focus on the cast of characters???
You ALWAYS focus on the protagonist and his/her disadvantage as well
as transformation and obstacles, which I did.
Lastly, the PASS email
said that I didn't include anything on why this story stands out??? I
wrote and entire paragraph about why this story is very unique and how
it will grab an audience.
IDEA THEFT is rampant in Hollywood and if I
had time I can tell you several recent sad stories about how your ideas
get stolen online by unscrupulous services like Virtual Pitch Fest and
The Happy Writers. You may want to think twice about services like
these unless you want to give your ideas away to uncreative staff
writers who are under pressure to come up with something new!!!
Mark Claro
I spent nearly $500 on pitches. I got two reads but the rest I believe is just to sell those pitches. They say your screenplay genre is what they are looking for. Yeah, right. When you get the report it's nothing but. Managers are the worse. They are supposed to read nearly everything to judge the writing and perhaps get that writer a writing job. They passed every time. I've been writing. for over twenty-five years and I'm not giving up but I must think of putting food on the table before squandering my money away. It was a nice but a costly try. Learned my lesson. I'll go back to writing fan fiction stories instead. I was never in it for the fame or fortune; just as a hobby. On the Net at least I get viewers who appreciate my stories and it doesn't cost a damn cent!
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