(Well, one scourge, anyway...)
by Alexandra Sokoloff
I'm quoting/linking this Variety article because this is an issue that anyone who is contemplating a career in screenwriting should be aware of. The prevalence of the one-step deal (read below) and the endless free rewrites that come with it is one of the main factors that drove me to write my first novel.
I realized I could write a whole book - (that I would own the copyright to, which is actually a whole other rant) in the time I was being coerced into doing draft after draft of free work on a screen project I knew very well would never get produced.
....read on: The scourge of screenwriting - free rewrites
The Variety article:
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