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anecdote: My first script, awesome, of course. So I'm figuring out who to send it to. So I send some letters, get dear John replies. Then I get some phone numbers. So I call Miramax. Lady answers the phone,
I ask for the director of development...
hold please,
and then hello, this is so and so.
I say I have a script.
She says, nice, what's it about...
What's it about? It's an action story.
Yeah, but what is it about?
I stumbled every which way to Sunday because I could not, in a very few words, explain what my story was was about.
After a minute of stumbling, she said, very politely, when you know what it's about, call me back. I never did call back and I'll never forget that phone call.
So, you should be able to say what your story is about, in very few words.
That was the first time I got close. Only one other time, but never since. And even then, that was a total fluke to get in on that call, or, as Donald Trump put it, it was a failure to be prepared when opportunity presented itself.
Ah, yes, Steven, my friend, I do remember that. I defintely did not do a very good job with actual examples, did I? Piss poor, actually.
Very good point, but at least my point got through, although it should have been much clearer. I was probably in a crappy mood and didn't want to the spend the extra 4 1/2 minutes it would have taken. My bad!
Actually, if a person takes the time to become a writer of any kind, they really should take the time to learn such basics as grammar. I should have known what was wrong, or better yet, not made the errors in the first place.
anecdote: My first script, awesome, of course. So I'm figuring out who to send it to. So I send some letters, get dear John replies. Then I get some phone numbers. So I call Miramax. Lady answers the phone,
I ask for the director of development...
hold please,
and then hello, this is so and so.
I say I have a script.
She says, nice, what's it about...
What's it about? It's an action story.
Yeah, but what is it about?
I stumbled every which way to Sunday because I could not, in a very few words, explain what my story was was about.
After a minute of stumbling, she said, very politely, when you know what it's about, call me back. I never did call back and I'll never forget that phone call.
So, you should be able to say what your story is about, in very few words.
Bang on! We can all agree to that! Logan, or no Logan.
Why not? People would be able to discuss if its interesting or not, and try to help improve it. What's wrong with it, what would work, how to make it short and sweet, etc all that stuff.
My main concern, Slabby, is opening the floodgates on that.
I mean, look at the Work in Progress board, where (many) people post the first random thought that pops into their head -- as if a script is actually forthcoming.
It is just posting to see yourself post, if that makes any sense.
If one person starts a "How's my logline?" thread, I shudder to think how many more will soon clutter the boards.
If you got a script, a logline goes with it -- and then it is time to discuss the quality of that particular logline.
Otherwise, you are waaaay into cart-before-horse territory.
We could always have one thread that's devoted to posting your log line for feedback. Any one who wants to post a log line can post it there. Sound good?
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