Ive recently started working more on triggerstreetlabs and as much as Ive gotten invaluable advice there, Im starting to think I need to give it up. For every gem of advice, Ive had to spend hours sloughing through terrible scripts and even longer reading comments telling me that grammers not really important and screenplays arent meant to be read anyway, theyre supposed to be watched, and it MAKES ME WANT TO COMMIT A HATE CRIME. Maybe itll look great, but hows it going to sell if no one can picture it?! If the scripts painful to read?! Then I get all worked up and look at award-winning scripts and flip through my script theory books and go IM RIGHT, IM RIGHT DAMNIT!!! But I never respond because the first rule of the internet is do NOT partake in internet fights, you wont have a good time. But I like, loose sleep over this guys. People leave these drive-by comments saying that there are no rules when its just not true, there are rules and I know them. Then I start thinking of the majority of people in this industry and how theyre mostly jerks. I know Im a jerk too, but Im a different kind of jerk than most and I dont get along with the other jerks. Then I think that if everyone in the film industry are such slimy buttholes, why am I in it? OH RIGHT its my God-given talent and one true passion. THAT SUCKS! I hate film people, love writing films, what a sadistic curse. Tina Fey said it best - one day, we can generate actors on computers, then there will be no need for anyone but screenwriters. Well type it out and it will become a movie. A lovely fantasy. Sometimes its the only reason I can sleep at night. .....anyway. What do you think, give up on triggerstreet? I hate every second of it, but I dont know any other way to get feedback on my work. Their system of give a review, get a review works great, until every other script you read is a manifesto against grammar and you want to kill yourself. Maybe I could have friends read for me. But thats asking a lot, scripts are long. Maybe I should focus less on getting writers to help me write and more on getting producers, directors, and actors reading my scripts. In any case I AM LOOSING SANITY AND NEED HELP. /endrant
Posted on: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 02:20:28 +0000
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