Last week, I got a very interestingxt email from a guy named Jonathon Nimmons, who wanted me to try an absolutely free social platform for writers called "WriteSeen." Usually, I ignore these emails, but Nimmons explained that with the loss of CoverFly, writers needed a free platform to make connections with talent, reps, and each other. Let's dive in. What is WriteSeen? From their press release, "WriteSeen lets users securely upload and control access to scripts, pitch decks, audio, video, books, comics, poems, games, and more. Projects are timestamped to protect IP and can be kept private, shared for feedback, or shown to verified industry professionals via a secure database. Last year, WriteSeen launched Rights Guides, enabling literary agents worldwide to showcase published books to film producers for screen adaptation opportunities."In his email, Nimmons said to me, “Every creator has a drawer full of work that deserves to be seen. We built WriteSeen so that drawer doesn’t stay closed, I got tired of hearing talented people say they gave up because they had no way in and writers were fed up of being treated like wallets.”Now, I have definitely grown tired of the idea of pay-to-play in Hollywood, so I figured this was worth checking out. When you log on, you get a home page that looks like this: Credit: WriteSeenBasically, this looks a little bit like Twitter, if all the users were just writers. You can create a profile, follow certain members, DM them via a messaging app, and...
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