THE NEW HOLLYWOOD LEADER

READER Q: How Can I Monetize My Unpublished Novels?

READER Q: How Can I Monetize My Unpublished Novels?.

READER Q: How Can I Monetize My Unpublished Novels?

ARE YOU DOING MORE BY DOING LESS?

RADIO SILENCE?
 
I love doing my ezine and the schmoozes and feedback I get from many of you and the correspondence and community it builds.
 
And I also realized how much time and creative brain cells it takes (for me) and I wanted to experiment with a different choice.
 
HERE'S WHAT I LEARNED:
 
Almost anything I focus on starts to expand and take a lot of time. Since my time and brain cells are not unlimited it’s important to be brutal about how I spend them.
 
No matter how much time I think certain things “should” take they always take as much time as they’re going to take. Which is generally a lot more than I think/hope/want. (See “What’s Your Chinese Democracy?)”
 
HERE'S WHAT I GAINED:
 
I got deeper into things that were bigger, scarier and had more potential reward.
 
I was tired of telling my own coach that I didn't have time to do some of the stuff that I thought was really important.
 
A MEDITATION ON PROCRASTINATION 

By giving myself enough time to actually get to the “really important stuff” I realized that once I faced these projects directly I could discover what was really going on.

WHAT’S A HOLLYWOOD PROFESSIONAL TO DO?

Here’s a question I received from a colleague recently.

“Hi there.  I’ve been an independent casting director for over 30 years, casting mostly studio feature films with a few indies and TV pilots thrown in.

“Independent,” meaning I don’t work for a studio and I’m freelance.  Things have been going very well until the last couple of years when the “perfect storm” hit the business.

The Writer’s strike, the de-facto SAG strike, followed by the economy tanking last year. Studios have stockpiled projects and have almost stopped green-lighting films, or they are green-lighting fewer and fewer films.

The traditional resources to go to for financing for indies has also shifted greatly.  People are scared.  Seems like the business model for studio and indie film distribution, financing, etc. has completely changed….but I’m not quite sure what it’s going to change into.

What do you think the adjustment (or fall-out!) will be in this end of the business?

How’s a girl supposed to make a living as a casting director with so few films being green-lit?!”

HERE’S MY REPLY:

Um. Well. . . .

A lot of people ARE getting out of the business. And also based on the calls and emails I’m getting a lot of people are still deciding to get INTO the business now.

But everyone must reinvent themselves to some extent right now.