{"id":308,"date":"2019-01-29T17:15:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T17:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/?p=308"},"modified":"2019-01-29T17:15:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T17:15:58","slug":"screenplay-contests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/01\/29\/screenplay-contests\/","title":{"rendered":"Screenplay Contests"},"content":{"rendered":"

After vacillating for a good long while, I’ve decided to submit one of my screenplays into a few contests.\u00a0 I’m most happy with “The Dominatrix Wore Red<\/a>” though I’m going to tweak it before I send it, to incorporate the lasted feedback I got.<\/p>\n

Because my goal is to direct what I’ve written, I didn’t see the value in contests where the reward was potential to sell the script. However, I started to think there was value in the potential to be recognized as a screenplay writer when it came time to find investors.<\/p>\n

I’m for sure going to submit to the Nicholl Fellowship<\/a> and the Austin Film Festival<\/a>, but haven’t made up my mind regarding others.<\/p>\n

Though there are non-trivial cash awards for winning (Nicholl, for instance, offers each of 5 winners $35K, though they need to write a second screenplay within the next year), based on what I’ve read, becoming a finalist is just as likely to jump start a career as winning.<\/p>\n

Like anything else, it’s a gamble, but it’s a small one given the entry fee.\u00a0 Though the odds are long (Nicholl, for instance, had almost 7K applicants for 5 awards), they aren’t astronomical.\u00a0 Besides, to win you gotta play, so I’m buying a couple of tickets.<\/p>\n

And who knows, I might get lucky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After vacillating for a good long while, I’ve decided to submit one of my screenplays into a few contests.\u00a0 I’m most happy with “The Dominatrix Wore Red” though I’m going to tweak it before I send it, to incorporate the lasted feedback I got. Because my goal is to direct what I’ve written, I didn’t … Continue reading “Screenplay Contests”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-dominatrix-wore-red"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}