Writer’s Biggest Mistake: Paying Attention to Hollywood Trends

What is the trend today in Hollywood?

I’m standing smack-dab in the middle of the town and I haven’t a clue. As in algebra, however, let’s say that there is a trend and let’s call that trend “X.”

It’s too late to get in on that trend for the simple reason that it is the trend. If it’s the trend today, it had to be in the works at least a year ago, and much more likely two or three or more years ago. To cash in on that trend by writing a script geared to it is to guarantee that, by the time you go to market with the script, it’s already old news, stale and pale and so last year…

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