Work one-on-one with an executive at mutually agreed upon times around your schedule. To start, you'll have a 15-minute strategy call with your executive to get the lay of the land for the month. Then, you’ll have email access to your executive throughout, plus four one-hour story notes sessions. Work on a single screenplay or multiple scripts plus get additional notes on your pitch, brand strategy, and career advice - work your mentorship to its fullest potential!
Keep it punchy, moving, and true to you. Have visuals that bring the world you're writing to life, especially if it's a world most people aren't familiar with. It also helps executives from checking their phones. Have fun with it! Make a supplementary playlist or something else that feels organic to your series. For my series, I got my development deal after soft pitching it in a general with a ton of enthusiasm.
Half-hour streaming, cable, network, multi-cam, single cam. Big, fun weirdo comedies. Anything with a heart. Messy characters who can't get their lives together. Coming of age stories. Female-driven series and features. Musically-driven series and features. Rom coms. Silly, raunchy comedies.
Procedurals, mainly because I've never written one.
Alex Zaragoza is a television writer, producer, and journalist based in Los Angeles. She wrote on Amazon Freevee's PRIMO created by Shea Serrano and executive produced by Mike Schur and NBC's LOPEZ VS. LOPEZ. She's also in development on a series with a major studio and director/producer based on on her years as a punk teen on the U.S.-Mexico border. As a culture journalist, Alex has written and edited for VICE, LA Times, NPR, Teen Vogue, Bloomberg, and others. On most days you can find her thinking too hard about reality TV, how smart crows are, and about the lady that runs Club Chalamet, and other such things.
Private Month Mentorship
Each month mentorship kicks off with a preliminary 15-min. call to set expectations and lay out strategy for the month. Writer will have email access to the executive plus 4x one-hour consultations with the exec. Exec will read up to 4 scripts in one month (different drafts of the same script or 4 different scripts) and conduct 4x one-hour story notes calls. Calls can also include feedback on your pitch, branding, or career strategy.
If you pay with the deposit/payment plan, your second half will be due the 2nd week of the Mentorship. If you need a different type of payment plan, email dorian@roadmapwriters.com.
**Please note feature screenplays are limited to 120 pages maximum. Please contact terra@roadmapwriters.com for pricing on a Month Mentorship on screenplays exceeding 120 pages.
What To Expect
After registering, you will receive an automatic Order Confirmation email. Then Roadmap's Director of Consultations, Terra Joy, will get your mentor looped in with you! If you do not hear from Terra or the exec within 3 days of registering, feel free to email terra@roadmapwriters.com for an update.
Before starting your Month Mentorship, please ensure you are familiar with our Code of Conduct.