Just wrapped up the Spec Market Scorecard for the end of the year.  It was quite an interesting exercise — seeing the year's complete numbers all laid out like that provides a bit of perspective on what felt like an awful year for screenwriters (and lit agents and managers).  I'll post the report here (along with a link to the PDF) on Friday.  For now, some teaser numbers:

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The Spec Market Scorecard will publish on Friday this week, but some teaser numbers are up on LifeOnTheBubble now. Click through the above link for details.

Spec Market Roundup:  November 2009
By Jason Scoggins
December 2, 2009

Here’s the cliché you knew was coming: 
Not with a bang but a whimper.  

As usual, the 2009 Spec Market effectively ended as of the week of
Thanksgiving.  (There will be a few
intrepid souls who take scripts out between now and Sundance 2010 — as of this
writing there are three in the marketplace for the week of November 30 — but
conventional wisdom says all thoughts of buying have been banished by visions
of sugar plums and the Wailea Four Seasons.)  November’s numbers were on par with what we’ve come to expect
from this discouraging year:

• 17 new
  specs hit the market, 3 of which sold
• 14 of
  the 17 went out wide, none of which sold
• 2
  scripts from the ancient past (in spec market terms) also sold

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