Contacting producers: The waiting game

It's a tale as old as time. A writer has met a producer - perhaps for a pre-arranged coffee, perhaps at a networking event. The producer has asked to see the writer's script. The writer has gone straight home, sent the script, and... Nothing.

A week ticks by.

Two weeks tick by.

What should you do next?

Well, for three weeks, we recommend you should try to forget about it.

Easier said than done, we know - but some producers, particularly development producers, have quite large reading piles and it will take them at least a couple of weeks to...