Wired has an article about Screenwriter Diablo Cody who they describe as an "up-and-coming scribe who's making waves in Hollywood." Cody was a stripper in Minneapolis before chronicling the details in her blog and in a book called Candy Girl. She's now a screenwriter involved in several projects. Cody first became noticed because of her blog called The Pussy Surprise so it is no surprise that one of Cody's tips for finding Hollywood success it to start blogging.
Step Two: Start Blogging and Wait to Be Discovered
After college, Cody left her native Chicago for the romantic Twin Cities -- trading Post-it Notes for pasties while exploring the frosty Minneapolis underworld as a stripper. She described the perils of pole-dancing on the popular Pussy Ranch blog.
Because there are only a few blogs online these days (Technorati currently tracks a mere 112 million), it was a safe bet that a successful Los Angeles literary manager (Mason Novick) would find Cody's work and inquire from 3,000 miles away about her literary ambitions.
"Before Mason found me, all I'd written was the blogs for City Pages in Minneapolis," Cody said. "He asked me if I'd thought about writing something else. I started my book after that."
Once you get noticed you then write your memoirs. Afer that you write and sell your first screenplay. It's all pretty simple. Cody tells Wired, "I think there's room for more talented bloggers to break into Hollywood. It seemed like a fluke when I did it, but I won't be the last blogger to have a film produced." Cody's path was unusual but she is correct that she won't be the last blogger to make the jump to Hollywood. The next blogger to sell a screenplay could be you.
