Dear Stage 32,
Happy Introduce Yourself Weekend! Many of you know me as a regular blogger on the site, and Ashley's planning on publishing my next contribution in the next few weeks. I hope to see you all in the comments section!
I'm also a working screenwriter and script doctor with more than 70 projects behind me, and a reputation for putting amazing performances in front of the camera at the last possible second. For the last several weeks, I've been putting together a YouTube Channel to help make sure screenwriters have the tools to write work that demands to be produced - and that doesn't need to be rewritten when an a-l;ist star or director attaches themselves to your project! I've got the fundamentals well-documented, and I'm already expanding the site with clinics on technique and other stuff to support you in your success. If you'd like to check out the channel, you can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/@TennysonEStead
Big things are coming! I've got three films in active development, and I've got some money heading my way to help with a move downtown from the Valley, and my projects, and maybe even a little Christmas cheer for myself and my family. My game is testing amazingly, I've been writing constantly, and I'm looking forward to a meeting or two in the coming week.
Happy Holidays, everybody! Let's get some business moving before Hollywood shuts down for the year, and let's build the culture and the world we want to see in our future!
Best regards,
Tennyson E. Stead
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Happy Introduce Yourself Weekend, Tennyson Stead! I'll be in the blog comments. Congratulations on your game testing amazingly! I'm rewriting a feature script for Stage 32’s November Write Club. I plan on pitching it next month, but I'll mainly be pitching it after the holidays.
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Hey Tennyson Stead I just subscribed, I look forward to checking it out . Thank you .
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Thank you, Marie Hatten! Please feel free to make heavy use of the comments section!
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Congratulations on the new script, Maurice Vaughan! Good luck with the pitching!
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Also, if anyone's out there talking about that great movie idea they've been sitting on...
By December, you could be handing out a screenplay. The Holidays are always slow, so I'm looking to write at least two films for $4,000 apiece before New Year.
Check out my bio and samples, and drop me a DM if this sounds helpful to you: https://www.stage32.com/tennyson
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Thanks, Tennyson Stead. I’m thinking of ways to make my script stand out when I start pitching it. It's a really marketable concept, so that'll make it easier. Happy Holidays! Looking forward to reading your blog!
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Maurice Vaughan In my experience, the best thing you can do to promote yourself is help other people achieve their goals. I've tried my share of gimmicky social media campaigns to either crowdfund a project or push a screenplay, and they might reach the community you have but they won't expand that community to the people you're hoping to meet.
Strong communities happen because we make ourselves necessary to other people. What you're doing here on Stage 32 is a great start, but it's a start! What can you do to help the performers and filmmakers you admire, or like working with, to succeed in their goals. If you keep doing those things, those people come to rely on you - and that's when they start seeing more value in the ideas you're personally committed to.
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That's great advice, Tennyson Stead! Helping other people achieve their goals has helped me. I've helped writers, producers, directors, actors, and more, like giving free feedback and making free pitch decks. I do it just to help them, but sometimes it leads to opportunities for me.
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Maurice Vaughan That's the best way to approach it. If you're helping a project you believe in, then it's not going to cause problems for you if and when those people don't reciprocate. Your time was still well-spent - but it's the people I've worked for and work with who have helped me move my career forward. Most of the scripts I've sold have gone to people I know, and the development of those productions have been the thing that expands my network the most.