My Christmas Gift to You!
It's nearly Christmas, and I'm in a generous mood. So I've decided to offer a free gift to every reader of my blog. It's a copy of my unique mini-report "How to Make Big Bucks Selling Your Movie Idea to Hollywood".
This report is based on the module about selling ideas for films and TV shows in my course Quick Cash Writing. It explains how, if you have a great idea for a movie, you may be able to get a Hollywood "insider" to pitch it to the studios on your behalf. If your idea is optioned you will pick up a fee of at least $5,000, and much more if the movie is put into production. And no, you don't have to write the screenplay yourself!
There are no strings attached. The report is available for you to download now, free, gratis and for nothing. It's in the universal RT Just click on this link [SORRY, LINK DELETED!] and it should open in a separate window in your word processing software. You can then read it, print it out, or save it to your own PC by selecting "Save As" and saving to a folder of your choice.
But please, if you want to do this, don't leave it too long. I can only leave this offer up until Christmas, after which you will again only be able to obtain the report if you buy WCCL's blockbusting Write a Movie in a Month course via my blog review (or, in a slightly different form, if you buy my Quick Cash Writing course).
And speaking of Write a Movie in a Month, if you're interested in screenwriting you can still take advantage of my special offer on this amazing CD-ROM. Just click on this link to read my blog review, and scroll down to see the offer details (which include both a $20 discount and further bonus items).
Happy Christmas, and happy screenwriting!
SORRY, this offer has now closed. Hope you got to download the report in time! If not, you can still get it, but only if you buy WCCL's blockbusting Write a Movie in a Month course via my blog review (or, in a slightly different form, if you buy my Quick Cash Writing course).
This report is based on the module about selling ideas for films and TV shows in my course Quick Cash Writing. It explains how, if you have a great idea for a movie, you may be able to get a Hollywood "insider" to pitch it to the studios on your behalf. If your idea is optioned you will pick up a fee of at least $5,000, and much more if the movie is put into production. And no, you don't have to write the screenplay yourself!
There are no strings attached. The report is available for you to download now, free, gratis and for nothing. It's in the universal RT Just click on this link [SORRY, LINK DELETED!] and it should open in a separate window in your word processing software. You can then read it, print it out, or save it to your own PC by selecting "Save As" and saving to a folder of your choice.
But please, if you want to do this, don't leave it too long. I can only leave this offer up until Christmas, after which you will again only be able to obtain the report if you buy WCCL's blockbusting Write a Movie in a Month course via my blog review (or, in a slightly different form, if you buy my Quick Cash Writing course).
And speaking of Write a Movie in a Month, if you're interested in screenwriting you can still take advantage of my special offer on this amazing CD-ROM. Just click on this link to read my blog review, and scroll down to see the offer details (which include both a $20 discount and further bonus items).
Happy Christmas, and happy screenwriting!
SORRY, this offer has now closed. Hope you got to download the report in time! If not, you can still get it, but only if you buy WCCL's blockbusting Write a Movie in a Month course via my blog review (or, in a slightly different form, if you buy my Quick Cash Writing course).
Labels: opportunities, resources, screenwriting
Nick at 4:01 AM 
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Generous gift, great read, will be very useful. Many, many thanks Nick and wishing you and family the best through Christmas, Ne'er and through 2008
Thanks for your kind comments, John. My very best wishes to you and yours as well.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!
Nick,
Thank you for your helping, for your generosity. All this is very, very useful for me.
So, I have a personal question, concerning my writing. How can I to contact you?
lia
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Thanks for your kind comments, Lia. You can contact me via my homepage at www.nickdaws.co.uk.
Why did you delete my comment, Nick? My post simply asked for the names of any individuals who have actually sold movie ideas to Hollywood based on your system.
Surely that's not an offensive question... Although perhaps it's one you can't answer?
OK. I'm getting a bit fed up with this now, and I'm sure most readers of this blog are as well. Believe it or not, I do have more important things to do with my time. However, I'll try to explain it one last time, after which this topic is definitely closed.
I am not trying to sell anyone a "system" in Quick Cash Writing. Rather, this is a very large writing course covering all types of short writing projects, from readers' letters to greeting card captions, comedy sketches to articles and short stories. The part of Quick Cash Writing that discusses selling ideas for movies is just a small part of one module in the course, which also covers selling ideas for TV and quiz shows.
The module in question, inter alia, lists a number of websites that allow writers to pitch ideas, either free or for a small fee. In general, the people operating these websites pick those ideas which they think have the best potential, and develop them into fully-fledged pitches that they can present to movie producers and production companies. People such as pitch-man Robert Kosberg (www.moviepitch.com), himself the producer of successful movies including Twelve Monkeys and Fade to Black, can get access to these people in a way that would be simply impossible for an unknown writer.
In the event that such an idea is bought or optioned, the original author receives a share of the fee paid. This is typically $5,000 minimum. If you want more details, I recommend that you check out the websites concerned - they are currently available in my free report based on the QCW module, which I will leave up for another week or so. Bob Kosberg's site, in particular, is very informative, and quite open about the odds involved. Of all the ideas pitched to him via the site, he accepts about 30 each year to pitch to the studios.
So yes, it's long odds against, but it IS possible, or people such as Kosberg are guilty of perpetrating a long-running fraud on the writing community, and I just don't buy that. It's a bit like doing the lottery. You probably won't win, but you just might. And if you do, the potential rewards are considerable.
Obviously, devising movie ideas won't appeal to everyone, and I do explain in Quick Cash Writing that there are many other more reliable ways to make money as a writer. But if you're the sort of person who enjoys devising story ideas, which after all only take a few minutes to write out and submit, it's something you might like to try your hand at.
That's it, then. I'm not accepting any more questions on this topic now. Time to move on, guys.
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