THE FIRST LADY
THE FIRST LADY LOGLINE Premise: The first First Lady to divorce a sitting US President flees to her native Los Angeles
Seven-Figure Specs: What Four Sales Reveal About What Buyers Wanted, and Why the Lottery Odds Still Apply
From a reported $3.25 million thriller by an unknown writer to a romantic drama that attracted a star, the analysis
What Sells in a Contracted Market: A Los Angeles Manager’s Assessment of Procedurals, Genre, Micro-Dramas and the Case for Making Things Yourself
Raquelle David’s May 2026 post describes the worst stretch of her career and offers specific advice, with a commercial interest
From Finished Draft to Sale in Six Steps: Representation, Rewrites, Talent and the Difference Between an Option and a Sale
Edwin Cannistraci’s roadmap and Stacey Parks’s warning about packaging give working screenwriters a realistic sequence to follow Writers often picture a
How the Streaming Viewership Bonus Works: The 2023 Formula, the 2026 Improvements, and Why Residuals Decide Who Can Afford to Keep Writing
A bonus tied to how many subscribers watch a show changed the economics of streaming writing, and the new contract
Why Four Years? The Writers Guild’s Negotiators Explain a Contract Term the Studios Wanted
Guild leaders say the longer deal was the price of saving the health plan and should not be taken as
The Health Plan at the Heart of the Deal: 321 Million Dollars and Higher Costs for Writers
Screenwriters will pay monthly premiums for the first time in years and must earn more to qualify, as the guild
‘Just One More Pass’: The New Contract Takes Aim at Unpaid Rewrites
Screenwriters have long delivered draft after draft before being paid for the first, and the 2026 deal tries to curb
A Quarter Fewer Working Writers: The Guild’s Own Numbers for 2025
The Writers Guild West reports about 5,072 members with earnings last year against nearly 7,000 at the 2022 peak, and
From 148 Days on Strike to Three Weeks at the Table: What Changed for Writers Between 2023 and 2026
Two contract cycles, two very different outcomes, and a business that looks little like the one writers walked out of WGA
A Federal Tax Credit for Film and Television: The Argument Reaches Washington
A bill introduced in September would add a 20 per cent national incentive on top of what states already offer,
What a Screenwriter Is Actually Paid: Minimums, Medians and the Gap Between Them
Guild figures put the floor for a high-budget screenplay near 145,000 dollars and typical first-draft deals well above it, and
AI Cannot Be the Writer: A Working Guide to the Guardrails Screenwriters Already Have
The protections won in 2023 remain the rules of the road, and every writer taking a job should know what
Writers Asked to Be Paid When AI Trains on Their Scripts. They Got a Phone Call Instead
The 2026 contract requires studios to notify the guild if they license writers’ work for AI training and to keep