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...remember you can't satisfy everyone. Write a script that pushes the envelope than the peeps who are sensitive will be offended, if you write about puppy dogs and ice cream than the hard core action writers will be bored with the script and probably will be out before they hit the second page.
Oh, how true. One of the best things a writer can learn (along with growing a very thick skin) is that *no* script will be universally loved. People simply have very different tastes. The script that goes for subtlety will bore some. A specific action scene may thrill certain people, and elict yawns from others. It doesn't matter where you are in your craft; that will always be true.
Which is not to say that one can't learn and gain oodles from reviews - both pro and con. For instance, if 7 out of 10 people say your script was confusing or overwritten... well, you really should check it out. And one review may be itself be "wrong" on two points (or at least arbitrary) and totally right on point three. These OWCs are great things. But one shouldn't take a single (or even a few) negative reviews to heart. Those reviewers may simply have different tastes than the audience you're shooting for. (Though, any writer who thinks they're perfect and doesn't keep an open mind does so to their own disservice.)
# It's one of the toughest, brutal, yet honest, script competitions you can experience - at the end you often feel you have survived something.
I don't believe that 'honest' is correct. Other writers are the worst people to get advice on your work from... there may be the odd one we connect with. Often I find the advice of other writers is damaging. Which is why I stay away from directing other writers where I believe they should take their work. I may offer up an example, but it's never a serious proposition.
There are some writers that are good at that... not saying there isn't. For the most part though, other writers are crap at giving advice on where a story should go. It's not like they wouldn't have a heap of drafts to do with their work too.
Working with producers is a different thing entirely. Producer comments are designed to encourage... but I prefer to read the analyst notes straight. Analysts will write different notes for producers than they will the writer. You get it raw when they think they're writing for a producer who is going to pass along the notes in a more friendlier format.
Writers comments should be taken for what they are worth... a pinch of salt. Most of them won't be worth listening to.
Since the names are being revealed tomorrow, are we going to put in our guesses on who wrote what? It took a little research, but I'm pretty sure I figured out one of them.
Since the names are being revealed tomorrow, are we going to put in our guesses on who wrote what? It took a little research, but I'm pretty sure I figured out one of them.
Hmmm. I can take an educated guess with some, I think I know which ones were done by Rick, Jeff, maybe Janet(although I still have doubts)...and of course yours.
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