Hey Guys,

I Wrote this attached Blog for a bit of Fun !!! Had a bit of time to kill so I thought I would post it on here in the chance you guys get a giggle from it.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hqqq3hdmo4c1hd7/Screenwriting.pdf

You may think it's a bit of a "Pessimists" view though I feel it may be more of a "Realists" view on screenwriting.

Even though it may not sound like it !! "I do love the Art"

ENJOY and let me know what you think.

Regards Alex

I see you follow me on Twitter. If not, hell of a coincidence, haha. Nice work. Luckily, I've reached the 11 year mark, which isn't covered in the article (I don't think). FML.

Quoted from spesh2k I see you follow me on Twitter. If not, hell of a coincidence, haha. Nice work. Luckily, I've reached the 11 year mark, which isn't covered in the article (I don't think). FML.

Thanks spesh2K,

You'll have to continue it up to the 11 year mark. Hee Hee

Thanks for taking a read and hope you had a laugh.

Alex

Skimmed it, and you nail some of our early learning steps perfectly with some nice satire. But I didn't see the one that was most maddening to me over the years: reading countless "how-to" books and having various "gurus" contradict each other on some aspect of screenwriting, such as, "Yes, camera angles are fine to include, that's what the pros do and you want your script to look like it was written by a pro" vs the next book where you read, "Never, ever, EVER include camera angles." Same can be said for conferences where at one lecture the guru advises you to give each MC a quick but unique description and at the very next lecture the other guru says the very opposite.

Oh, and mind you that most of these gurus have never written a screenplay that actually got produced. Kind of like politicians who never owned or ran their own business telling you how to run yours. Or more accurately, a politician who formerly ran a business badly or drove it into the ground now telling you how to run your business.