Manfred Lopez Grem

Director, WGA Screenwriter, WGI Mentor, WGA-E Captain, Occasional Molcajete Salsa Maker.

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@Jamie_Nash This sounds about right. The other metric I keep noticing is that it’s usually after the seventh or eighth screenplay when the writing starts to get good enough.

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@CindyBegel @cruzwriter @stevestiefel That would be great!

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@cruzwriter @CindyBegel @stevestiefel Currently I’m not in any formal group. That’s why I got excited when @CindyBegel kindly included me in the advanced one she’s organizing. It’s just getting started.

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@cruzwriter @CindyBegel @stevestiefel Too bad! It's so hard finding Latino/a writers, let alone one's who are killing it.

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@CindyBegel @Curtischin @HNLGuy @MerylORourke @DomSalvaggio @stevenmartini @Murphwordz @ZainAzraiTweets @augustastories Thank you! DM sent.

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@CindyBegel I’m interested!

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@johnzaozirny @storytellerdave For what it’s worth, I teamed up with a PGA producer to bid on one of the winning Nicholl screenplays from this last edition. Ours was not the only offer. We won and we’re now developing it. It was the writer’s first deal.

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@joshbarkey @finaldraftinc But FD has the autosave function where it backs up everything. I have it set to every 3 minutes.

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Two-time Oscar winner Randy Thom has graciously invited me to talk about our writing collaboration in his upcoming lecture for the London School of Sound.

This is the first time we'll be making public a sequence from our screenplay HELLTOWN.

https://t.co/ANquRBCoKU

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@tschrack @itsjonrobertson Oh ok ok. I was too deep into easter egg hunt. This is exciting.

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@tschrack @itsjonrobertson Twins??

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@Joe_N_Marino So well deserved, @Joe_N_Marino Since I couldn’t attend, I’ll have to buy you abeer when tou get back.

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@ClintW3 @austinfilmfest I fully endorse this. These are two really great guys. Buy them many drinks!

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@SPMJM @joshbarkey I definitely noticed a big change in how people treated me once I became WGA. Then another change when I landed a seven figure deal. The time I didn’t really notice any obvious change is when I got a manager. But I know everyone’s experience is different.

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@joshbarkey @tschrack I have some good news on that front. We finished the script a couple days ago. Now it’s out for battle testing, and I’m awaiting the great reckoning myself. That means I can start reading again!

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@tschrack @joshbarkey 😂 Here I am trying to get some writing done… and you guys pull me back in.

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@NGDWrites @tschrack @JoeFavalaro Screenwriting Reddit is a great community if you read the right posts. But it can also bring out the worst in some people in certain posts. Same with this place.

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Congratulations to @NickGambino1. I met him on Tuesday. He’s a really cool guy. He recently won Austin and signed with a manager. Thanks @billpoore8 for getting us all together in NYC.

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@juliacgriffin @NGDWrites There’s a number of people posting under their real names on Reddit and giving solid advice. The latest one is Franklin Leonard. @NGDWrites and I have been doing it for a while. It’s a mostly good place with far less drama than Twitter.