What's Better Than Winning a Contest
The Disney Fellowship. Lots of people enter and if you're single, or married and able to relocate or be apart from your spouse for a year, so should you.
A contest win is very satisfying. You get a prize, you might get some calls to option your work, etc. However, if there are no bites, that's it.
The Disney Fellowship is a job writing for a living with other professionals for a year. What better place to learn the business, make contacts and work on polishing your writing to a professional level?
The title of this blog should link to their page. Bookmark it and check out the guidelines and mark their deadline on your calendar each year.
Sam & Jim (of Sam & Jim Go To Hollywood fame) were both Disney fellows as well as Sal over at "Let Me In". Check out their pages and see what they thought of the program. Sam & Jim are doing well currently and Sal is still in the program, so you can get a current view of what it's like.
Labels: Screenwriting
posted by Dave @ 8/04/2006 12:31:00 AM
2 Comments:
The Nicholl Fellowship also pays for a one year trainign deal, but you get to do it from wherever you want. Another good one
While I agree that the Nicholl is good, my personal opinion is that the Disney fellowship is king for the very reason that it puts you face to face, day in/day out with people that are doing the work now.
It's not a "go off and do your work" reward, but a "come and work for us and we'll train you" reward. To me, the people and knowledge you can pick up in a year outweighs the benefit of just funding.
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