• Meet with writers, give feedback (30%)

• Have meetings with other internal executives (10%)

• Meet with producers and studio executives (20%)

• Read scripts and make offers to option books (20%)

• Talk to agents (20%)

Here is an example of a typical day:

7:30 a.m.: ?? ?? ?? Power breakfast with fellow development executive with whom you once answered phones.

8:30 a.m.: ?? ?? ?? Check voice mail. Ask assistant to read e-mails to you over the phone on the way in to work.

8:45 a.m.: ?? ?? ?? Call New York literary agent you've been trying to contact for a few days for the rights to a recently released novel

9:15 a.m.: ?? ?? ?? Agent to send over a term sheet. Ask assistant to hire a script reader who has called 10 times asking for work. You need to dig into the pile that's next to your desk.

9:15-10:00 a.m.: ?? ?? ?? Look over the term sheet from the agent and call back to negotiate a lower rate. Agent refuses to budge. You say you'll think about it.

10:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.: ?? ?? ??Meeting with a writing duo to give comments on a script that you've just optioned for $20,000. If you can get it polished and get a writer or director attached, you can sell it to a studio.

12:00 p.m.: ?? ?? ?? Leave for lunch across town.

12:15 p.m.: ?? ?? ?? Return calls. Check into tailor for your dress that needs alteration before your black-tie cocktail party next weekend.

12:30 p.m.: ?? ?? ??Power lunch with studio executive who may be interested in the script you have just optioned.

1:30 p.m.: ?? ?? ?? Ask assistant for Internet research on some names that came up during lunch, potential 'script doctors.' You make calls to inquire about them further.

2:00 p.m.: ?? ?? ?? Drop by your former literary agency, schmooze with an old friend, now an agent. Get a coffee, talk scripts.

3:00-3:15 p.m.: ?? ?? ??Back to the office. Listen to voice mail. Respond to e-mails.

3:15-5 p.m.: ?? ?? ?? Try to reach other talent agents about the script. Respond to literary agents who have sent scripts over.

5:00 p.m.: ?? ?? ?? Miss a big call from a producer you're waiting for. Before you explode at your assistant, you find out that the phone didn't even ring-the call went (purposefully) straight to voice mail, presumably to avoid a conversation but to communicate the guise of trying to call. You call back, only to get more voice mail. Make a note to try again tomorrow.

5:20-7:00 p.m.: ?? ?? ?? Read new scripts sent over-the ones not handed over to the script reader. Look over coverage to see if anything interesting pops. One has potential for something that Brad Pitt's agent said he was looking for but it's too poorly written to investigate further.

7 p.m.: ?? ?? ?? Leave for dinner and drinks with another producer.