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I watched some yesterday. Whilst the britts we're pounding down tea and crumpits(hardly) I sat at a lothargic bar full of patrons who could care less about "Soccer". I did enjoy the cheap goal we got. Twas the highlight for me.
I think we could use a new dump of scripts. I gotta real little stinker in the hopper.
I'm trying. Every now and then, someone will actually engage in a constructive back and forth even, but usually, it's a "thanks, I disagree, don't post anything else on my thread or I'll have it deleted". And then, they do have it deleted, and their thread dies.
We miss you, Pia. I hope things are OK with that situation you mentioned awhile back.
Thanks Jeff! It's not a secret. We had it on the business website even with links to the newspaper. We were closed for a month!! Luckily we opened up this week again and were super busy as if nothing had happened. Weird!
Finders Keepers will be postponed until fall since there was just no way I could organize that after the accident and shooting in the woods in Florida in the summer is out of the question. I will work on the script meanwhile, trying to get it better. I just sent in a rewrite to scriptreaders again. The comments were not as good this time so I'm worrying that I've rewritten it to shit to be honest.
Going to read a script now. A reread which I seldom do.
Here's something I have a question on Jeff. I could post this under its own topic, but since this is kind of a show about nothing, I'll post here.
topic: regional dialect or slang.
Someone from another site sent me some of his scenes. He's a new writer, but fairly good at doing things like English slang, or black inner city dialogue. What I would worry about is being just a little off on something like that. For example, I am from Massachusetts, and there's been a lot of movies filmed here recently that try to capture the "Boston accent". The dialogue will be moving along very accurately, then something will really stick out as fake. Now it's not a big deal since only locals will sense this. But for something like inner city slang, or London slang, if you get one line wrong, a lot of people are going to know, and to me it will sink the script.
So I try to avoid sounding too "genuine". Of course, it's also not something I have an aptitude for either. I am curious what your approach is.
In a similar light, what efforts do you make to try to make a dialogue sound regional, and how important is it. For example, sometimes a simple sentence will look the same on paper, be the same words, but will be said different in London, Birmingham, or Brooklyn. But I think sometimes people really push in their writing to get that dialect sound, when in reality all you really need is the actor to say it with the right accent.
Just making conversation. Mods can delete this or move it they want, not going to ruin my day.
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