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This is awesome. I ran across it on Associated Content, and I just loved its tongue-in-cheekness. Rather than read about all the wonderful rules to get your script sold, let's focus on how not to do it. After all, that's what you want, right? Especially if you follow these guidelines:
If people don't get your story -- it's their problem, not yours.
This is great advice for not getting a script sold. Screenplays are like baby pictures; it's pretty hard to find someone willing to tell the mother her baby is ugly. Honest criticism is very hard to get, so the writer must not ignore it. Fixing typos and continuity errors is not doing a rewrite, it's just adding a little make up to the first draft.
People will be so wrapped up in your story that they won't even notice typo's or spelling errors. Besides, spell check catches all of those mistakes. Their is know weigh spell check will knot fined an error.
Is the "typo's" intentional or is this a case of irony?
When I wrote the first draft of LOVE LIZA, I really had very little idea of where the story was going. I had a few things to start off with, and somewhere I wanted to end up down the road, but that was it. It was terrifying and difficult to remain seated. But the most original characteristics of the screenplay came out of the immediacy of trying to come up with what's next
True, and I admit to having written this way as well. But writing this way will almost always be followed by extensive rewriting to ensure the story is viable on screen.