Are you looking for a career as a screenwriter? One challenge you may face in your screenwriting career is keeping up with current story trends. If you take too long to write a script that fits a particular trend, it may be too late by the time you finish it. That’s why producers give very strict deadlines to the scriptwriters they hire. So if you are a new screenwriter then you need to develop a strategy for your career. Don’t take every writing opportunity you can find because you’ll never have time to finish them all. Instead, you should first focus on networking in the industry. In other words, you need to build a network of film industry contacts. You can find these contacts at writing festivals or film festivals near you. Just do a Google search for the locations and times of these festivals.
A great way to advance your writing career is to make a list of all the relevant festivals, contests, and meetups you can find. If you don’t mind traveling outside of your metropolitan area to get to these events, make note of festivals further afield as well. This is especially important if you have already made a short film and want to show it to people at these festivals. Then you don’t want to be picky about just going to the closest locations, but instead want to branch out and show it off everywhere.
Making a few movies will also help your career as a screenwriter. They don’t have to be long movies. Just something that visually represents your stories and writing. You’ll find that producers and investors will be more willing to provide you with funding for future projects if they’ve seen a movie of yours that they like. It could even be a video that only contains various scenes from your scripts. The more movies you have to show, the better your chances of getting someone to finance your next film project.
What you will want to do eventually is raise enough funds to finance the production of your own movie. After you make your feature film, screen it at every international film festival you can find. This will open new doors in your writing career because new producers will want to hire you to write or rewrite scripts for them. It will also earn you industry credits and establish you as a produced writer with a successful writing career. Eventually, you’ll get to a point where the producers will want you to write their own scripts for them. You just have to establish yourself by writing down your ideas first.
