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:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/109525/top_five_ways_to_ensure_your_screenplay.html

Haha, good one.

Quoted from article 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.

If you like this kind of screenwriting humour, check this blog: http://jerslater.blogspot.com/

Very humorous read indeed.

Quoted Text Tip Four: Don't proofread. 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?

I wondered that myself.

Jer Slater's blog is fantastic. Go read about Rape Bear. I dare ya!

Those are some good rules. What these people are saying makes an enormous amount of sense. Good advice for wannabe screenwriters.


Cheers, Chismeister.

Thanks for sharing George, that was hilarious.

That first rule is not always true - http://www.simplyscripts.com/WR_BC_start.html

Quoted Text 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

From simplyscripts.com no less :P

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.