What is your intent with posting these here if it is not to engage with those who read them and comment?

Honestly, I could care less if he engages with other board members.  

Getting hits on his blog.

I detect a stint of jealousy.

Thank God this is a SCREENWRITING website and not a popularity contest.

...or is it?

Generating traffic to my site does not earn me an income, sell one of my screenplays,  improve my chances with women or devalue the person who takes a look.

I enjoy writing, I enjoy discussing writing and if my experience can benefit just one person then the effort is worthwhile.

This week I had a 90 minute transatlantic call discussing with an Oscar winning writer a screenplay of mine that goes into production in March.

If a sixty year old fart who lives in a rural location 150 miles from London can go from never have written a screenplay to where I am today, then there are chances for everyone.

I just want people to know they can do it.

If I cause offence I’m sorry, not for causing offence but for the person who feels offended.

You do what you do, and that's fine, but you got called on it.  End of story.

I have terminal writer's block - if I don't "think through" the idea or scene somewhere else and instead sit down with the intent to write? Nothing happens.

If I chase the idea down an alley and wrestle with it while I'm driving, or food shopping or whatever, and it clicks? Then I rush to the computer and get it down.

So I do a lot of thinking and very little "writing", until it's time to write.

Does this happen to anyone else?

...  I agree that some of his posts are good -- though a mixed bag, for sure...
But if you really get something from it, you can follow his blog.  That's what it is there for...These boards are not Ron's blog, "The Ron Aberdeen Show" -- and he already has his own site for that.

Generating traffic to my site does not earn me an income

Hire Ron: I also mentor new writers, provide screenplay critiques for production companies, offer a script editing service and rewrite screenplays to order, in any genre.

Too much to resist...the second doesn't make the first false, Z.  ;)

I see on your site we can request the first five pages of a script. That's a cop out to me. It's far easier to write an intriguing opener then actually finishing a coherent story. The turns to act two and three are what I look for to learn from.

So pop over there if you want to take a look at my work.

Thanks for your comments and time committed in reading this little piece of mine.  I deliberately made the protagonist a really unpleasant character, a bit like myself really.

This was my third screenplay and written in June 2005 along with another during that month simply as an experiment to see if I could increase interest in my work on InkTip.

I had placed my first two screenplays on their web site in April and May and wasn't getting many hits, so The Scriptwriter and The Box were written quickly and placed up on that site because my first two screenplays were large budget biographical yarns.

It did the trick and by the end of July I received my first commission, from Horror director David DeCoteau.

He commented on the line in The Scriptwriter regarding the dyslexic murderer getting the wrong victims out of the phone book. David said, he like the combination of humour with horror and that line was a premise for a screenplay, on its own.

It is not a script that is likely to ever be produced because of the copyright issues with the various characters who make an appearance, but it amused me at the time and still does to a degree.

But what it has done is get me work from three different sources.

Getting hits on his blog.