How to Take Your Screenwriting to a Hollywood Level

In this episode, producer Daniel Maze sits down with WGA screenwriter and writing coach Brooks Elms to talk about what actually separates amateur screenwriting from professional-level work.

Brooks shares how he went from writing messy early features to building a repeatable system, writing over 45 screenplays, getting signed by UTA, and working on assignments and sales in Hollywood. Daniel and Brooks discuss why talent alone is not enough, why structure matters, and why the real test of a screenplay is whether the audience feels something.

They also dive into AI, script coverage, producer-writer relationships, Screenrep, genre, concept development, and the hard truth that most writers are not failing because they lack ideas, but because they lack a system, feedback, and a clear path to the right producers.

A serious conversation for screenwriters, producers, and filmmakers who want to understand how scripts really get better, how relationships are built in the industry, and why emotion remains the core of great storytelling.

Topics include:

Screenwriting craft, Save the Cat, AI coverage, producer submissions, Screenrep, writer-producer relationships, genre as emotional promise, concept development, and building a professional writing career.