Work one-on-one with an executive at mutually agreed upon times around your schedule. To start, you'll have a 15-minute strategy call with your executive to get the lay of the land for the month. Then, you’ll have email access to your executive throughout, plus four one-hour story notes sessions. Work on a single screenplay or multiple scripts plus get additional notes on your pitch, brand strategy, and career advice - work your mentorship to its fullest potential!
Lead with the character then give me the hook. Help me see the series or movie poster. Also, be excited about what you're pitching. If you don't believe in it, neither will anyone else.
I'm interested in working with anyone who sees notes as something to look forward to not something to dread. I tend to work a lot in the YA/New Adult genre and really love supernatural stories. I feel like this is where I can be most helpful and I'm always happy to read about underdogs who find their strength and voice.
Zoila, (Zoilita to her large Honduran family) knew since she was a toddler that she would be in show biz. One of her first paths in Hollywood was in Postproduction on scripted series at Warner Bros and Paramount studios. Later she jumped into reality television, where she worked as a Supervising Producer and Story Producer on such shows as PROJECT RUNWAY, Paris Hilton’s BFF and AMERICAN CHOPPERS. Life was sweet, but she secretly dreamed of becoming a writer. The idea of leaving her established career seemed scary, but then she became a stepmother to three teenaged girls. After that, nothing scared her. So, she gave up her glamorous life in Post Production (not to mention the steady paycheck) to pursue her passion.
She was accepted into the National Hispanic Media Coalition’s Writing Program, the CBS Mentorship Writers’ Program, NBC’s Writers On The Verge and the ABC/Disney Writers’ Fellowship. She won Baby First’s Rising Creators Project selling her animated pre-school children’s show Team Abuelita.
She’s been staffed on the Hulu series EAST LOS HIGH, the bilingual series RPM Miami for Mun 2 and THE FOSTERS for Freeform. She also wrote a freelance script for Hallmark’s GOOD WITCH, sold a YA chat fiction story, “Deranged Marriage” to Snapchat subsidiary Hooked and wrote an Untitled Quinceañera feature for Focus Features. She created a YA series with Brat TV called B-TEAM and wrote a freelance script for the animated preschool sitcom ROSIE'S RULES. She also became a playwright in 2020 with her first piece for stage titled “Not Your Mamà’s Period” which debuted on Period Piece a virtual play about periods and the people who get them. Her newest play “Foodie” was published this year by Next Stage Press as part of a new anthology of women Television and Screenwriters.
This year she was selected to the Netflix Created By Initiative where she received a feature development deal. She’s also currently in development with a production company on a feature based on the life of legendary artist Celia Cruz.
Her writing can range from dark and twisted (like her hair) to fun and dramatic (like her family) and she loves writing about the underdog who rises from the ashes to face her demons, literally and figuratively. Zoila is happy chasing her dream as a writer, mom and aspiring karate black belt.
Private Month Mentorship
Each month mentorship kicks off with a preliminary 15-min. call to set expectations and lay out strategy for the month. Writer will have email access to the executive plus 4x one-hour consultations with the exec. Exec will read up to 4 scripts in one month (different drafts of the same script or 4 different scripts) and conduct 4x one-hour story notes calls. Calls can also include feedback on your pitch, branding, or career strategy.
If you pay with the deposit/payment plan, your second half will be due the 2nd week of the Mentorship. If you need a different type of payment plan, email dorian@roadmapwriters.com.
**Please note feature screenplays are limited to 120 pages maximum. Please contact terra@roadmapwriters.com for pricing on a Month Mentorship on screenplays exceeding 120 pages.
What To Expect
After registering, you will receive an automatic Order Confirmation email. Then Roadmap's Director of Consultations, Terra Joy, will get your mentor looped in with you! If you do not hear from Terra or the exec within 3 days of registering, feel free to email terra@roadmapwriters.com for an update.
Before starting your Month Mentorship, please ensure you are familiar with our Code of Conduct.
Cancellation Policy: You may cancel your registration for a refund or Roadmap gift card if you have not yet submitted your material for review. However, once your material has been received, your registration cannot be canceled. Having revised material or a desire to retroactively apply a discount or gift card code are not grounds for cancellation, refunds, or gift card credit. Once your material has been submitted, the only acceptable grounds for cancellation and a refund or gift card credit is an unforeseen, ongoing emergency on the part of either the writer or the exec resulting in more than 6 weeks without any scheduling update from the exec via direct contact or Roadmap, or a sudden change in the exec's ongoing availability. In the instance of an irreconcilable scheduling issue, the writer may still receive a written feedback report from the exec. In this case, the writer is not entitled to a refund or gift card credit as the exec has read the submitted material and provided written feedback in lieu of the call.