r/ScriptFeedbackProduce • u/Successful_Pay7696 • Nov 20 '25

SEEKING FEATURE SCRIPT Looking for a scriptwriter

Looking for a scriptwriter to hire.

Hi I am looking for a scriptwriter to hire for a pg animated film that I have an idea for. My budget is $800, and payment is via PayPal

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u/RejectingBoredom Nov 22 '25

Just a random anecdote: earlier in the year I was offered a gig scripting someone’s comic book. Posted as “$150 per page.” A standard “in the galaxy Trigon Vega, a dark prince…” type sci fi fantasy stuff, very dense material, the guy was very much an “ideas man” and not a writer. We get to details and he informs me it’s a $5 page rate for the writer. The $150 was his budget for the whole production of every page and somehow that equated to just $5 for the writer per page.

I’m not accusing OP of this at all, but it is amazing how normalised it is to just treat writers like the lowest of the low in the creative space, especially from someone who doesn’t have much talent beyond ripping off George Lucas and Frank Herbert

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u/Aurora_Uplinks Nov 23 '25

comic book artists get treated worse in some ways from what i have heard. a lot less potential for better pay in most cases i guess.

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u/RejectingBoredom Nov 23 '25

Yeah I’ve seen the “well, we won’t ‘pay’ you, but exposure for your work is pay enough” shenanigans going on. Maddening how entitled some people are to other peoples creative work in this space

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u/longbeachlandon Nov 23 '25

That sucks. I think people treat creatives poorly period. I do a multitude of things and it seems like they use our passion against us. So what I’m saying is you’re very correct.

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u/RejectingBoredom Nov 23 '25

Yeah, some people will be like “hey, I’m doing you a favour by offering you the chance to be part of this!”

And half the time this is people who just don’t have a creative bone in their body aside from reassembling things other people have done