Most New Writers Can’t Stop Falling Into The Same Traps — Corey Mandell

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Film Courage: It sounds like things are picking up for writers. That studios and streamers, they’re looking for new content and so now is a great time. Is it an easy time?

Corey Mandell, Screenwriter and Screenwriting Instructor: No. Great question though.

It’s never easy.

The challenge is for, and this was true for me when I was starting out, someone could be the best writer of their friends or their writer group or in their class, but you’re competing against the best of the best.

It’s one thing to be a great high school athlete.

It’s a lot harder to be a professional athlete.

The bar is really high and there’s a lot of competition.

Different people are going to take this differently.

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I’m sure some people are going to have a lot to say and they’re not going to be happy about this, but I think for certain people this is actually really good news.

For whatever it’s worth, I’m going to say I’m just the messenger here.

When I talk to agents and managers and producers and executives, they’re worried.

They’re worried about this sort of new crop of emerging writers who want to be professional writers.

They’re saying this is the weakest kind of generation of people trying to become professional writers that we’ve seen.

We’re concerned that as we…(**Watch the video interview on YouTube here**).

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About:

Corey Mandell is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter who has written projects for Ridley Scott, Wolfgang Petersen, Harrison Ford, John Travolta, Warner Brothers, Universal, 20th Century Fox, Fox 2000, Fox Family, Working Title, Paramount, Live Planet, Beacon Films, Touchstone, Trilogy, Radiant and Walt Disney Pictures.

Corey teaches screenwriting via private online classes using video conferencing to allow participants to see and hear each other in real time. His highly popular classes draw students from across the US, Europe and Australia.

His students have gone on to sell or option scripts to Warner Brothers, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Disney, Fox, Fox 2000, MGM, Universal, USA Network and Lifetime. Others have gained admission to the USC Graduate Screenwriting Program, the AFI Conservatory Screenwriting Program and Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab.

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