Please complete the application below by Tuesday, September 8th. Please read the application thoroughly and do not send or explain supplemental notes or materials beyond the details articulated in the questions. As pertinent, we’ll follow up for further clarification.

Alumni-Only Genre Script Search: Part of Our NEXT 1000 Initiative

Please submit by Tues. Sept. 8th. Do Not Attach Scripts or Materials!!

Long-time alumni of Writers Boot Camp have received “script search” communiques in the past for consideration of writing samples as audition pieces for writing jobs and development opportunities with producers and creative executives reaching out to us, often themselves alumni.  In today’s industry climate, there is an upward trend–finally, after a long drought in LA–toward increased production and for productive writers whose work is vetted and superior on the page. In fact, JG has commented for a few years about the profound window for genre-based independent writers and filmmakers–and evidence and excitement abound accordingly.

In the spirit of our NEXT 1000 discovery initiative, side-by-side with LA production recovering and the integration of AI, we’re inviting alumni to let us know about your BEST WRITING SAMPLES & STORY INVENTORY in the application below.

Historically, most Script Searches have tended to be for one-off opportunities of specific creative parameters and budget levels. We have on occasion matched writers to producers and companies with the caveat that writers on the verge of creating their own original material will often take priority. In this case, we’re broadening the search to identify a range of projects by alumni that may be viable.

While the horror genre has continued to perform for 30 years since its resurrection with the 1996 release of SCREAM, there are other classic types of movies that can earn at the box office AND illustrate your distinctive voice. Including teen comedies, revenge-and-rescue action-thrillers, road trip adventures, clever wedding movies, and talking animal stories…just to name a few…genres with clear production strategies represent practical, commercially viable vehicles for new artists/writers/filmmakers.

Project Insight and Notes on the Script Search Application

Writers working in a vacuum without professional frontline experience will naturally miss the many facets of an idea. While rarely expected to be fully explicit within the first few drafts–especially without depth of Story Structure expertise–writers too often forego certain tests and tools when striving to get to a perceived finish line, usually a premature one.

Even writers who have more recently matriculated through the 10-Week Basic Training soon forget–by their enthusiastic focus on drafting pages–the 15-Part Premise Line Checklist articulated during Week 2, which represents a battery of tests to affirm the fulfillment of the potential of one’s project. In that balance lies the harsh reality of underachievement and underdevelopment–and the calcification of defensive posture. Motivated by personal stories, many new writers also underestimate the professional challenge of creating a multi-dimensional, freshly entertaining and character-driven story for a target audience demographic.

In an idea business, in the development and production of movies, TV, as well as in publishing, the craft of writing goes well beyond an adherence to actual events or even story content. It’s the arrangement of the material and approach to the story that will make it stand out.

If you’d like to submit an application describing your Best Writing Sample, one that can be identified within a classic genre and fresh take on a traditionally type of project, then please submit to the Next 1000 Alumni Genre Script Search application below.  Please keep every answer to a single sentence and a maximum of 50 words.

Please complete the following questionnaire and do not send any attachment, additional description, or other supplemental information. You may send brief questions to support@writersbootcamp.com. Please allow up to one or two business days for a response.

Please remember to keep every answer to a single sentence.