Crazy, isn't it?
I'm always amazed (though I shouldn't be) at the differing means of replies between California, Canada, and New York.
To every contact in Los Angeles I could muster, I sent a letter. The same goes for New York, and Canada.
One should compare the WGA lists for America, both East and West. The number of agencies on both sides are huge.
But, when it comes to keeping in contact, New York is the clear winner. Los Angeles is, simply put, the void into which correspondences disappear. Come on, Hollywood, it's not going to kill you to write back like your New York cousins do, even if it is to say "not interested" for X reason.
Out of the pile I sent to New York, about half of them were met with replies: form letters, personalized letters, and even an email or two. They take the time because, obviously, they realize what their jobs are all about.
Out of the bigger pile I sent to California, about one tenth of those came back...at most.
So WGA agencies\signatories, are you trying to keep us from contacting you at all? Is it really your lot in life to hide from the very people you set out to find? It's like being a 911 dispatcher who won't answer a telephone.
At least have the decency to write us back. Making fifty grand (at least) per deal is enough to jade you, apparently, because some of us are damn near penniless screenwriters handing out money we don't have to pay for postage, ink, and all else that is required to have you kind people ignore us.
