Practice Management

Heros: Neely Swanson's No Meaner Place

By Dan Hull

No Meaner Place will highlight writers and writing that for one reason or another have pushed aside, shoved to the curb, and abandoned; wonderful scripts that have never made it to the big screen or to the small screen in series form.

--Neely Swanson, August 11, 2009

Writing Well, Hollywood. Talent in the film industry is required--and it's rarely enough. But sometimes unsung quality gets its day. First, however, it needs a Champion--a finder and advocate. Do take a look around at No Meaner Place, an unusual and nuanced but important new site by Neely Swanson, a former Senior Vice President for Development at David Kelley Productions (L.A. Law, Ally McBeal, Boston Legal, Lake Placid). Swanson, who knows good scripts, herself has created an ongoing story about talent, and struggle, that inspires. Many of the writers she interviews have had past writing triumphs. See, for starters, "What?s Your Story? by Jack Bernstein".

Full post as published by What About Clients? on February 25, 2010 (boomark / email).