Jairo Rincon: Author in Medellín, Colombia.

Ask Me Anything (AMA) 3/1 to 3/2

Hello everyone, this is Andrew Kersey. I'm a literary manager with a focus on nurturing unique storytelling voices in film and tv. My client's comedy VACATION FRIENDS starring John Cena and Lil Rel was Hulu's biggest 3-day weekend opener for an original in the streamer's history at the time. The sequel recently wrapped. Another recent success is the sale of a client’s sci-fi spec, VARIETAL, to Universal with Mike De Luca, the Oscar-nominated producer behind THE SOCIAL NETWORK and the FIFTY SHADES OF GREY movies.

I’m here on Stage32 for 24 hours today for an AMA!

Happy to answer your questions regarding writing for film and tv from a manager's perspective.

Here’s a blog I recently did for Stage32:

https://www.stage32.com/blog/why-you-need-to-write-your-spec-script-toda...

Here’s a little something from the No Film School people.

We’ve all been shown the way on Stage 32, to write for Netflix. But it seems that even if we are successful in that endeavour we should bear in mind what success means to Netflix.

Now, I thought, it turns out naïvely, that a completion rate would be how many subscribers watch every episode of a series, but it turns out that is not the case. What it means is something I could never do, due to my age and a predilection towards working and having a life! Completion rate is measured by those subscribers who binge watch a series.

So, I will never feature in the Netflix completion rate figures, which makes me wonder if Netflix are becoming age adverse rather than age diverse?

At the end of article there’s a suggestion that writers may have to think of having a cliffhanger (an immediate payoff) for every episode. At my age, what I like is intrigue and then a payoff. And there’s that age-thing again.

Then you may ask, what do they mean by a cliffhanger? Isn’t that just good writing and moving anticipation towards achievement and consummation? Any Thoughtz?

https://nofilmschool.com/netflix-cares-about-completion-numbers?utm_sour...

Just finished reviewing a short sci fi story (2,000+ words), which took me from idea to complete editing 18+ hours. Ready send to magazines. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

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