Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Start, Build, and Run a Successful Disability and File Review Practice" What does work is not telling people how you can do a great job. It's by actually doing a great job. So, each and every contact you have with the client is your best marketing. So, take some examples. You're contacted [...]
Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Earn Money as a Physician Writer" What you'll find when writing is that this can give you tremendous professional renewal, because sometimes when you get in your careers, 10, 20, 30 years, it gets a little bit rote and a little bit, you know, repetitive and a little bit boring and less [...]
Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “Screenwriting for Physicians" Man 1: What we're talking about today is screenwriting, you don't need actors. When you start, you don't need money. You don't need anything but an imagination and a computer. And, hopefully, you have those two things. And a little time, which is actually an issue with people who are working [...]
Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “Screenwriting for Physicians" Instructor: Step five, what does Rich mean when he says, "Step outline?" The step outline is essentially every scene in the movie. Okay? So step, you have this scene...it is a really good exercise, if this is interesting to you, to look at a movie you love in the genre you're [...]
Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “Screenwriting for Physicians" Instructor: That idea of tapping into something that's in the psyche and then, people, it'll resonate with people. So I love this. If you can do all these things in your story, you're on your way, you know, and it's all on one single piece of paper. So it always starts [...]
Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “Screenwriting for Physicians" Man 1: The scene description, it's pretty simple. It's just... Sean walks into the room. Sean picks up a... You know, it's present tense action verb writing. But the dialogue is really what people remember and you've got to get good at that. Sean: Thought about what you said to me [...]
Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “Screenwriting for Physicians" Rich: Your job is to look. Does this story lend itself to the theatrical stage? To TV? You know, in TV, you're thinking, in essence, if you're pitching a TV show, they want at least three seasons. Nobody wants a show that's done. If the show's a hit, they're gonna want [...]
Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Earn Money as a Physician Writer" So, a lot of people come to me and say, "I want to be a medical writer." And a lot of them are usually a little surprised to learn that there are many, many opportunities in the world of medical writing. It's very broad. And a [...]
Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Earn Money as a Physician Writer" So, next slide, "Where to Find Agents?" The good news, as I said, is there are a lot of us. There are a couple thousand agents out there. I won't say there are a few thousand good ones but there are at least a few thousand. [...]
Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Start, Build, and Run a Successful Disability and File Review Practice" Well, I'm gonna tell you right up front that this was not actually submitted by a physician in the course, this was sent to me by one of the followers of the companies, actually. So, from a little critical of the [...]