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The Spirit of the Spec

Scott Myers

03 Mar 2014
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I broke into the movie business selling a spec script. Ever since, I have been a proponent of the ‘spirit of the spec’. See what I mean with these posts below.

You get an idea

You act on your idea

You write your story

You put it out there

And if it doesn’t sell…

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