No two deals are exactly alike, but all deals are under unprecedented pressures in the current marketplace. When it comes to getting the best payday possible, leading agents and managers agree on some time-tested fundamentals.

New Media Writing Awards and the WGAW Statement on Occupy Wall Street are in this fall WGA update.

WGAW election results, CBS web contract, and videogame writing awards are among the recent news items issued by WGA branches.

WGA’s August News includes a call for documentary film nominees and a Great White Way intervention on behalf of a screenwriter who set in motion a successful franchise.

Annual earnings, court decisions, and awards updates are in the June/July WGA News round-up.

If you want to grab an agent or executive’s attention, your script doesn’t need to be as good as professionally written scripts … it needs to be BETTER than professionally written scripts.

Be honest with yourself about your project’s business model and commercial potential. Just as specific producers work on specific types of material, so do certain agents.

Recent news from the Writers Guild of America, West and Writers Guild of America East, including Congressional hearings on net neutrality and First Lady Michelle Obama’s Joining Forces campaign.

There is no bigger sign of an amateur than someone who’s worried about their stuff being stolen. If you worry your show can be stolen… you haven’t written it well enough.