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Perhaps everyone has a good story inside themselves, written or unwritten. Many people want to launch into the exciting work of screenplays. Selling movies to make money sounds like an easy thing to do, but is it? Actually, there are many steps that need to be taken into consideration before one can sell their screenplay legally. First you need to have a great story to begin with.

The next thing that needs to happen is the rights to this screenplay need to be exclusively yours. You can register your screenplay with The Writers Guild of America. The importance of this is to allow the persons play to be sort of copyrighted and protected. Then you can start sending them out to various companies. It is best to use an agent to do this. Most agents are highly trained and now how and where to send them too. However, if money is an issue, or one wants to do it themselves, there are ample pages available online that will show exactly where to send it too.

While it can be a taxing process, it is not hard. The hard part is getting someone to read your screenplay and be willing to follow through with your brilliant ideas. It can be done, persistence is key when dealing with distributing the screenplays.

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