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"But when you write a script, if it doesn’t get produced (and 99% of scripts don’t), it remains as just that. A template. Something that might only be read by other screenwriters."
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Read now on #PipelineArtists:
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Verge: Screenplay to Comic
But when you write a script, if it doesn’t get produced, it remains as just that. A template. A creative miscarriage.
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November 16, 2025 at 12:59 AM
"But when you write a script, if it doesn’t get produced (and 99% of scripts don’t), it remains as just that. A template. Something that might only be read by other screenwriters."
Read now on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/verge-screenplay-to-comic
Read now on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/verge-screenplay-to-comic
"None of it makes for a hearty reason to return to regular moviegoing at AMC theaters, or any other theater for that matter."
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Read now on #PipelineArtists:
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10 Reasons People Don't Go to the Movies (Looking at You, AMC)
AMC, like it or not, stands as the poster child for all the tin-eared thinking that movie theaters are putting out these days ...
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November 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"None of it makes for a hearty reason to return to regular moviegoing at AMC theaters, or any other theater for that matter."
Read now on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/10-reasons-p...
Read now on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/10-reasons-p...
"Notice how many of the examples combine genres—remember that “evergreen” simply means it’s not tied down to a specific pop culture moment, political movement, or historically accurate retelling."
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pipelineartists.com/evergreen-ev...
Read now on #PipelineArtists:
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Evergreen, Ever More: What's an "Evergreen" Script?
... how-to guides, tutorials, FAQs, listicles—they’re all often considered evergreen. But what about evergreen scripts?
pipelineartists.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:59 AM
"Notice how many of the examples combine genres—remember that “evergreen” simply means it’s not tied down to a specific pop culture moment, political movement, or historically accurate retelling."
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pipelineartists.com/evergreen-ev...
Read now on #PipelineArtists:
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"It is very difficult for two artists to live together, each of us hyper-focusing on our work and enduring the egregiously low wages amidst the constantly escalating cost-of-living crisis."
Read now on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/the-creative...
Read now on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/the-creative...
The Creative Partnership That Saved Our Marriage
Every decision we had to make for our own careers became a fight, and every fight became a huge question of whether we were going in the same direction.
pipelineartists.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"It is very difficult for two artists to live together, each of us hyper-focusing on our work and enduring the egregiously low wages amidst the constantly escalating cost-of-living crisis."
Read now on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/the-creative...
Read now on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/the-creative...
"...the more likely positive result of finishing your screenplay, and something you should consider as your most achievable goal, is that it becomes a calling-card script that helps you break into the business."
NEW on #PipelineArtists, from Phil Stark:
pipelineartists.com/how-to-break-in
NEW on #PipelineArtists, from Phil Stark:
pipelineartists.com/how-to-break-in
What It Takes to Break In
... first, write that script. But it takes more than the script.
pipelineartists.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
"...the more likely positive result of finishing your screenplay, and something you should consider as your most achievable goal, is that it becomes a calling-card script that helps you break into the business."
NEW on #PipelineArtists, from Phil Stark:
pipelineartists.com/how-to-break-in
NEW on #PipelineArtists, from Phil Stark:
pipelineartists.com/how-to-break-in
"If you’re old enough to remember, go searching in your movie memory banks, all the way back to the 1980s and 1990s, and you’ll likely rest upon pleasant remembrances of what it was like to plop down some cash to see a fun movie with big movie stars..."
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pipelineartists.com/where-have-a...
Where Have All the Good Movies Gone?
What happened? Where did all the good movies go? And most crucially, why have our viewing habits changed so much?
pipelineartists.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
"If you’re old enough to remember, go searching in your movie memory banks, all the way back to the 1980s and 1990s, and you’ll likely rest upon pleasant remembrances of what it was like to plop down some cash to see a fun movie with big movie stars..."
pipelineartists.com/where-have-a...
pipelineartists.com/where-have-a...
New interviews with authors, publishing industry, and more.
"The Story Will Save You" - a Pipeline Artists original podcast.
Listen now:
pipelineartists.com/the-story-wi...
"The Story Will Save You" - a Pipeline Artists original podcast.
Listen now:
pipelineartists.com/the-story-wi...
The Story Will Save You
The world of writing and publishing, from the POV of emerging authors and the brave souls on the front lines.
pipelineartists.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
New interviews with authors, publishing industry, and more.
"The Story Will Save You" - a Pipeline Artists original podcast.
Listen now:
pipelineartists.com/the-story-wi...
"The Story Will Save You" - a Pipeline Artists original podcast.
Listen now:
pipelineartists.com/the-story-wi...
"Hollywood doesn’t wait. Executives change like seasons.
Strike while the iron’s hot,
or go back to second-unit work.
Blow things up. Call it a living.
Then came Val."
Read the tribute to Val Kilmer by D.J. Caruso on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/through-the-...
Strike while the iron’s hot,
or go back to second-unit work.
Blow things up. Call it a living.
Then came Val."
Read the tribute to Val Kilmer by D.J. Caruso on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/through-the-...
Through the Fogged Lens: Finding Truth with Val Kilmer
The tears poured from his eyes. And the pain in his face was the answer we had been chasing.
pipelineartists.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"Hollywood doesn’t wait. Executives change like seasons.
Strike while the iron’s hot,
or go back to second-unit work.
Blow things up. Call it a living.
Then came Val."
Read the tribute to Val Kilmer by D.J. Caruso on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/through-the-...
Strike while the iron’s hot,
or go back to second-unit work.
Blow things up. Call it a living.
Then came Val."
Read the tribute to Val Kilmer by D.J. Caruso on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/through-the-...
TODAY IS THE DAY! Oops ... sorry for yelling, but you don't want to miss this one.
Megan Tusing is simply the best.
symposium.pipelineartists.com/event/demyst...
#BookSky #WritingCommunity #writerslife #audiobooks
Megan Tusing is simply the best.
symposium.pipelineartists.com/event/demyst...
#BookSky #WritingCommunity #writerslife #audiobooks
November 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
TODAY IS THE DAY! Oops ... sorry for yelling, but you don't want to miss this one.
Megan Tusing is simply the best.
symposium.pipelineartists.com/event/demyst...
#BookSky #WritingCommunity #writerslife #audiobooks
Megan Tusing is simply the best.
symposium.pipelineartists.com/event/demyst...
#BookSky #WritingCommunity #writerslife #audiobooks
"Their work got them signed to a top comedy manager and meetings followed.
But work didn’t.
It’s a familiar story."
Read "The Fantastic Two: An Interview with Screenwriters Ian Springer & Jeff Kaplan" on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/the-fantasti...
But work didn’t.
It’s a familiar story."
Read "The Fantastic Two: An Interview with Screenwriters Ian Springer & Jeff Kaplan" on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/the-fantasti...
The Fantastic Two: An Interview with Screenwriters Ian Springer & Jeff Kaplan
... desperation can kick in—you chase “what’s popular” rather than staying true to your creative vision.
pipelineartists.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:59 AM
"Their work got them signed to a top comedy manager and meetings followed.
But work didn’t.
It’s a familiar story."
Read "The Fantastic Two: An Interview with Screenwriters Ian Springer & Jeff Kaplan" on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/the-fantasti...
But work didn’t.
It’s a familiar story."
Read "The Fantastic Two: An Interview with Screenwriters Ian Springer & Jeff Kaplan" on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/the-fantasti...
"The genesis of that Christmas Day began many years earlier when Powers was a member of the Los Angles theater company, Rogue Machine Theatre, and writing the stage play One Night in Miami..."
Read the deep-dive profile on writer Kemp Powers on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/one-night-wi...
Read the deep-dive profile on writer Kemp Powers on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/one-night-wi...
One Night with Kemp Powers...
"I just want to put stuff out there that reminds people how we are not only interconnected, but we're codependent. And we won't accept that, like we actually kind of all need each other." - Kemp…
pipelineartists.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"The genesis of that Christmas Day began many years earlier when Powers was a member of the Los Angles theater company, Rogue Machine Theatre, and writing the stage play One Night in Miami..."
Read the deep-dive profile on writer Kemp Powers on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/one-night-wi...
Read the deep-dive profile on writer Kemp Powers on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/one-night-wi...
"In other words, you don’t know how hard something is, so you just plunge in, head-first, trusting you’ll figure it out."
pipelineartists.com/adapting-nov...
pipelineartists.com/adapting-nov...
The Doubt of Adaptation
The first pass was—traumatic. I was re-reading every single word of my novel, dissecting where I could have written it better, second-guessing so many things. I had to stop that critic in my head…
pipelineartists.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
"In other words, you don’t know how hard something is, so you just plunge in, head-first, trusting you’ll figure it out."
pipelineartists.com/adapting-nov...
pipelineartists.com/adapting-nov...
"During the making of this film, Ben Shetrit traveled around Israel, Palestine, and the world, following these artists. He found himself in areas of Palestine where most Jews wouldn't go."
Read now on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/through-musi...
Read now on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/through-musi...
Through Music, Israelis and Palestinians Fight for Equality
"Peace is not going to rain on us. Peace is something we have to make. We have to build it. It's going to take sacrifice."
pipelineartists.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"During the making of this film, Ben Shetrit traveled around Israel, Palestine, and the world, following these artists. He found himself in areas of Palestine where most Jews wouldn't go."
Read now on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/through-musi...
Read now on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/through-musi...
"It quickly became apparent that the expectations of what the role of midlist author entails involves more than committing to getting 1,000 words down each day."
Read now on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/why-writers-...
Read now on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/why-writers-...
Writers Shouldn’t Have to Sell Our Souls
Writer’s lives are not clickbait, and they are not a work of fiction to be dramatized for effect.
pipelineartists.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
"It quickly became apparent that the expectations of what the role of midlist author entails involves more than committing to getting 1,000 words down each day."
Read now on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/why-writers-...
Read now on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/why-writers-...
New interviews with authors, publishing industry, and more.
"The Story Will Save You" - a Pipeline Artists original podcast.
Listen now:
pipelineartists.com/the-story-wi...
"The Story Will Save You" - a Pipeline Artists original podcast.
Listen now:
pipelineartists.com/the-story-wi...
The Story Will Save You
The world of writing and publishing, from the POV of emerging authors and the brave souls on the front lines.
pipelineartists.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
New interviews with authors, publishing industry, and more.
"The Story Will Save You" - a Pipeline Artists original podcast.
Listen now:
pipelineartists.com/the-story-wi...
"The Story Will Save You" - a Pipeline Artists original podcast.
Listen now:
pipelineartists.com/the-story-wi...
A Pipeline Artists classic ...
Read "a sonnet" by author and Pushcart Prize nominee Tara Stringfellow (Memphis):
pipelineartists.com/a-sonnet-poem
*original art created for Pipeline Artists by Graham Sisk
Read "a sonnet" by author and Pushcart Prize nominee Tara Stringfellow (Memphis):
pipelineartists.com/a-sonnet-poem
*original art created for Pipeline Artists by Graham Sisk
a sonnet
last summer when you called ...
pipelineartists.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:59 AM
A Pipeline Artists classic ...
Read "a sonnet" by author and Pushcart Prize nominee Tara Stringfellow (Memphis):
pipelineartists.com/a-sonnet-poem
*original art created for Pipeline Artists by Graham Sisk
Read "a sonnet" by author and Pushcart Prize nominee Tara Stringfellow (Memphis):
pipelineartists.com/a-sonnet-poem
*original art created for Pipeline Artists by Graham Sisk
The #1 (don't factcheck that) podcast in the arts...
Catch up on Reckless Creatives, hosted by Jeanne Bowerman and Sadie Dean:
pipelineartists.com/reckless-cre...
Catch up on Reckless Creatives, hosted by Jeanne Bowerman and Sadie Dean:
pipelineartists.com/reckless-cre...
Reckless Creatives Podcast
Reckless Creatives is the Pipeline Artists original podcast about nothing and everything.
pipelineartists.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The #1 (don't factcheck that) podcast in the arts...
Catch up on Reckless Creatives, hosted by Jeanne Bowerman and Sadie Dean:
pipelineartists.com/reckless-cre...
Catch up on Reckless Creatives, hosted by Jeanne Bowerman and Sadie Dean:
pipelineartists.com/reckless-cre...
"Co-creator of DC’s comic series “Primer,” writer of many animated TV shows, man with a difficult last name to pronounce just right, perfect beard … Tom Krajewski has it all."
From the audio archives...
Listen now:
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From the audio archives...
Listen now:
buzzsprout.com/2547858/epis...
November 8, 2025 at 12:59 AM
"Co-creator of DC’s comic series “Primer,” writer of many animated TV shows, man with a difficult last name to pronounce just right, perfect beard … Tom Krajewski has it all."
From the audio archives...
Listen now:
buzzsprout.com/2547858/epis...
From the audio archives...
Listen now:
buzzsprout.com/2547858/epis...
"Since the market is always in flux, depending on who wants what, it doesn’t make sense for creatives to work like it’s a 9-5."
Read on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/writing-routine-hamilton-needed-a-weekend
Read on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/writing-routine-hamilton-needed-a-weekend
Hamilton Needed a Weekend
How are you going to make something that’s going to change the world when you’re too busy to experience the world you’re trying to change?
pipelineartists.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"Since the market is always in flux, depending on who wants what, it doesn’t make sense for creatives to work like it’s a 9-5."
Read on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/writing-routine-hamilton-needed-a-weekend
Read on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/writing-routine-hamilton-needed-a-weekend
"Like it or not (and I definitely do not), Hollywood is all about risk-mitigation."
NEW on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/know-thy-enemy
NEW on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/know-thy-enemy
Know Thy Enemy
... it would be so nice if we as writers didn’t have to fight so hard to get our projects made. But as Sun Tzu might remind us, wishing your enemy wouldn’t resist isn’t a strategy.
pipelineartists.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:59 AM
"Like it or not (and I definitely do not), Hollywood is all about risk-mitigation."
NEW on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/know-thy-enemy
NEW on #PipelineArtists:
pipelineartists.com/know-thy-enemy
Struggling to market your book? We've got your back.
TODAY! A new Symposium by Leila Siddiqui, who has spent 10 yrs working in marketing in two of the Big 5 publishers.
Still time to sign up!
symposium.pipelineartists.com/event/market...
#BookSky
TODAY! A new Symposium by Leila Siddiqui, who has spent 10 yrs working in marketing in two of the Big 5 publishers.
Still time to sign up!
symposium.pipelineartists.com/event/market...
#BookSky
November 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Struggling to market your book? We've got your back.
TODAY! A new Symposium by Leila Siddiqui, who has spent 10 yrs working in marketing in two of the Big 5 publishers.
Still time to sign up!
symposium.pipelineartists.com/event/market...
#BookSky
TODAY! A new Symposium by Leila Siddiqui, who has spent 10 yrs working in marketing in two of the Big 5 publishers.
Still time to sign up!
symposium.pipelineartists.com/event/market...
#BookSky
New Event Wed!!
Leila Siddiqui has spent ten years working in marketing in two of the Big 5 publishers. She's leading our session on the ins and outs of marketing your book.
Indie authors and trad authors will learn a ton!
Link in comment
symposium.pipelineartists.com/event/market...
#BookSky
Leila Siddiqui has spent ten years working in marketing in two of the Big 5 publishers. She's leading our session on the ins and outs of marketing your book.
Indie authors and trad authors will learn a ton!
Link in comment
symposium.pipelineartists.com/event/market...
#BookSky
November 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
New Event Wed!!
Leila Siddiqui has spent ten years working in marketing in two of the Big 5 publishers. She's leading our session on the ins and outs of marketing your book.
Indie authors and trad authors will learn a ton!
Link in comment
symposium.pipelineartists.com/event/market...
#BookSky
Leila Siddiqui has spent ten years working in marketing in two of the Big 5 publishers. She's leading our session on the ins and outs of marketing your book.
Indie authors and trad authors will learn a ton!
Link in comment
symposium.pipelineartists.com/event/market...
#BookSky
"You feel as if you’re in a rip current, paddling and paddling, yet getting farther from your goals." - @jeannevb.bsky.social
New on Pipeline Artists:
pipelineartists.com/but-for-a-ti...
#ScriptSky #BookSky #scriptchat
New on Pipeline Artists:
pipelineartists.com/but-for-a-ti...
#ScriptSky #BookSky #scriptchat
But for a Time
You feel as if you’re in a rip current, paddling and paddling, yet getting farther from your goals.
pipelineartists.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"You feel as if you’re in a rip current, paddling and paddling, yet getting farther from your goals." - @jeannevb.bsky.social
New on Pipeline Artists:
pipelineartists.com/but-for-a-ti...
#ScriptSky #BookSky #scriptchat
New on Pipeline Artists:
pipelineartists.com/but-for-a-ti...
#ScriptSky #BookSky #scriptchat
Learn about what marketers do at acquisitions, after the book is acquired, how they partner with the sales team to position the book to retailers, and how they bring the book the audiences.
NEW Symposium for #authors!
symposium.pipelineartists.com/event/market...
#WritingCommunity #BookSky
NEW Symposium for #authors!
symposium.pipelineartists.com/event/market...
#WritingCommunity #BookSky
October 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Learn about what marketers do at acquisitions, after the book is acquired, how they partner with the sales team to position the book to retailers, and how they bring the book the audiences.
NEW Symposium for #authors!
symposium.pipelineartists.com/event/market...
#WritingCommunity #BookSky
NEW Symposium for #authors!
symposium.pipelineartists.com/event/market...
#WritingCommunity #BookSky