Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Why does Max charge so much? I can get the same thing for half the price somewhere else!
A: It’s not the “same thing.” It’s not Max. And. Max is really good.

THE PICASSO STORY

Picasso is in a bar and a guy at the bar says, Hey, Picasso, draw me something on this bar napkin!

And Picasso draws something on the bar napkin.

Then Picasso hands the guy the bar napkin and says, That’ll be million bucks.

The guy who asked for the drawing says, Back up, Picasso! That took five minutes!

And Picasso says, No, that took decades of study and learning and craft.

YOU ARE NOT PAYING FOR A “READ”

You are paying for skill and knowledge and craft accumulated through decades of study and work and experience.

And that is incalculable.

And hey. Listen. I’m not saying I’m Picasso.

(Doy. I’m not charging you a million bucks.)

But.

I am saying, when you come to me? It’s not for a “read.” It’s for the benefit of skill and knowledge and craft and experience accumulated over decades that I bring to your work and helping you with your work.

That has value. Incalculable value.

And definitely —

More value than a fifty bucks “read” from someone who doesn’t have that knowledge and experience and skill and craft and time spent learning in the trenches.


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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Max Adams is an author and award winning screenwriter. She has written for Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures, Tri-Star Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, Universal Pictures – and a couple others to remain unnamed because no one around here wants to get black listed. Max is a former volunteer AFI Alumni reader and WGAw online mentor, has appeared as a speaker at AMPAS, USC, and Film Arts Foundation, is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at University of Utah, is the author of The Screenwriter’s Survival Guide AND The New Screenwriter’s Survival Guide, is the founder of two international online screenwriting workshops, and has the dubious distinction of having been dubbed “Red Hot Adams” by Daily Variety for selling three pitches over a holiday weekend – which made her agents cry. [In a good way.] She answers now to both “Max” and “Red Hot” in crowds and dog parks.



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