Richard, you know that script writers face many hurdles - writing words that will evoke interest from producers, reader-gatekeeps, the camera people and notably directors and actors. My preference after all this time - a million maybe in various forms of published print. That means probably twenty million or many words lost, even more keystrokes, endless revisions even before the collaborations... You insist that I write short. OK. Less go shorthand, dot points, pay $ to various "pros" (few who can actually write or are failed B-grade writers) and sort through the good and bad feedback. Me? I think I'll make my own revisions and enter the Nicholls or slip something on the Blacklist and see what happens. If successful, there will be changes, no question. Read an early draft of Men In Black and see the end result. It was a seller - and based on other original material. Hollywood wants it in shorthand, yes? Don't direct the directors (which is possible by sleight-of-hand) and know that some producers will only read the dialogue lines in a script. And the actors will change a word here or there in the end and take credit... Maybe, one day before senility, I will find people with money and like-minds to make my stories better. But how do we find them??? Not your way I believe.
Richard, you know that script writers face many hurdles - writing words that will evoke interest from producers, reader-gatekeeps, the camera people and notably directors and actors. My preference after all this time - a million maybe in various forms of published print. That means probably twenty million or many words lost, even more keystrokes, endless revisions even before the collaborations... You insist that I write short. OK. Less go shorthand, dot points, pay $ to various "pros" (few who can actually write or are failed B-grade writers) and sort through the good and bad feedback. Me? I think I'll make my own revisions and enter the Nicholls or slip something on the Blacklist and see what happens. If successful, there will be changes, no question. Read an early draft of Men In Black and see the end result. It was a seller - and based on other original material. Hollywood wants it in shorthand, yes? Don't direct the directors (which is possible by sleight-of-hand) and know that some producers will only read the dialogue lines in a script. And the actors will change a word here or there in the end and take credit... Maybe, one day before senility, I will find people with money and like-minds to make my stories better. But how do we find them??? Not your way I believe.