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Had an interesting thought today while looking back at this year in #screenwriting...
The first producer who read a certain script of mine stopped halfway through and called it too confusing to bother finishing.
Then that same draft became a Nicholl Semi-Finalist.
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The first producer who read a certain script of mine stopped halfway through and called it too confusing to bother finishing.
Then that same draft became a Nicholl Semi-Finalist.
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The first manager to read the script also stopped halfway through, either bored or confused, I can't remember.
I still don't have a rep, but then that script went on to land me a paid writing assignment (+10% lol) and a connection to a producer working at the studio level.
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I still don't have a rep, but then that script went on to land me a paid writing assignment (+10% lol) and a connection to a producer working at the studio level.
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Throughout all this, my feelings about the script have remained pretty much the same: "I wrote it to direct, that's the plan, and the rest is noise."
So the thought was... Let the industry noise cancel itself out, then ask yourself how you actually feel about your own work.
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So the thought was... Let the industry noise cancel itself out, then ask yourself how you actually feel about your own work.
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Because if your instincts can write it, those same instincts can judge it. The rest of the noise out there is just that... noise.
Feedback comes as a lottery of opinions. Take the good with the bad, rewrite what you want to rewrite, and then go get what you came here for.
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Feedback comes as a lottery of opinions. Take the good with the bad, rewrite what you want to rewrite, and then go get what you came here for.
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Oh, and apparently some of the noise comes from algorithms now, so... there's that.
Happy writing.
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Happy writing.
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