Most people don’t know that one of the most popular, world renown
screenplays in history, STAR WARS, was going to be THROW IN THE TRASH, NEVER
going to be shot if it wasn’t for the creativity and persistence of one man.

Not George Lucas, but Charles Lippincott who was vice president of
advertising and marketing of the Star Wars corporation.

NOT A SINGLE PERSON wanted to touch Star Wars with a ten foot pole. Science
fiction wasn’t very successful then and there had only been one major
science fiction flick attempted at the time.

Lippincott tried so many tactics to get the word out about Star Wars in a
way most writers will never attempt if their lives depended on it.
Lippincott tried to create pre-movie buzz which many, incorrectly, think is
a post-internet idea.

Despite getting rejected, he got the screenplay novelized by Alan Dean
Foster. He then persisted on Marvel’s tail until he could get a comic book
created out of the idea.

Stan lee, former president of Marvel comics, told him "Once you shoot the
film, come in and see me." He kept rejecting Star Wars until Lippincott
convinced a Marvel editor to write and draw the comic. Stan Lee eventually
ok’d it but told Lippincott  he would receive NO MONEY for the first 100,000
copies. Lippincott agreed on the condition that he let them publish a
mini-series which at the time had NEVER been done. Stan lee agreed.

I ask myself, look at what Lippincott  went through just to try getting Star Wars shot and what do we
do to try getting our work shot and produced. Nothing, compared to him.

We sit around hoping someone will knock on our doors and just beg us to read
the script we have sitting in a file cabinet somewhere.

Most writers will crawl into a corner and have nothing to do with anyone
which I’m sorry to say just leads into a black hole.

Most writers, with no name, will want to get paid 100k for their first or
second sucky scripts.

No matter how great your script, if you can’t reach out and connect with
people, even if you have the next blockbuster, most screenwriters will have
nothing.

How about trying to actually get your name and your work out there first
like Star Wars did.

How about actually trying to get something actually produced no matter how
small or miniscual you THINK it is.

That’s why I’m creating this writing contest..... to give writers a chance
to actually connect with other writers and filmmakers and get their work out
there, viewed by an actual audience.

Most contests hardly give writers any recognition and go nowhere.

I need the help of forward thinking writers so I can help them.

If you want to enter this writing contest for Episode 2 of our online
interactive series you have 2 days left.

Here’s the link to enter:

--->>> http://www.dreamartistfilms.com/scriptcontest/premise