{"id":319,"date":"2011-04-09T19:50:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T23:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/?p=319"},"modified":"2011-04-09T19:50:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T23:50:47","slug":"finding-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/screenwriting\/finding-work","title":{"rendered":"Finding Work."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-320\" title=\"tv\" src=\"http:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tv.jpg\" alt=\"tv\" width=\"200\" height=\"174\" \/>A quick note about networking.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind that actors and other entertainment industry related individuals besides producers and production companies are willing and able to hire screenwriters for work. I recently completed a paid assignment that included writing a treatment for an actress who had been asked to submit a reality show idea for the Oprah Winfrey Network. Not completely confident in what a treatment entailed or writing the entire thing, the actress hired me to do the dirty work.<\/p>\n<p>We found ourselves on the same wavelength, discussed what she wanted the show to be like and I set to work writing a treatment she could submit to the agent. I wish her luck because I\u00a0genuinely\u00a0like her idea and if she gets brought into the office to pitch the idea further, she&#8217;ll take me with her and what writer hates that?<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t be afraid to turn over every stone when you&#8217;re building your portfolio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick note about networking. Keep in mind that actors and other entertainment industry related individuals besides producers and production companies are willing and able to hire screenwriters for work. I recently completed a paid assignment that included writing a treatment for an actress who had been asked to submit a reality show idea for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/screenwriting\/finding-work\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Finding Work.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-screenwriting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}