What alternate mediums can a screenwriter pursue, while starting his or her career?
The start of a career is the most exciting, frustrating, and difficult time for any writer; particularly if you are stating out as a screenwriter. I can only speak from experience, and for me, it was what most people would consider a backwards journey, since I started in comics and then worked my way into screenwriting later in my career. There are a number of fields that one can look at as alternate mediums and still get to flex the creative writing muscles at the same time. Graphic novels (a.k.a. comic books) are one of the most recent and obvious places a lot of screenwriters have been looking to develop their properties, as well as video games and animation. Currently there are over a dozen publishers in the comic field looking for intellectual properties to develop and talented writers are always needed. The great thing about graphic novels is that they cover a wide variety of genres outside the superhero one. Plus, because there is no such thing as a budget to worry about, the wr
