Posted by: lizhamillscott | September 23, 2009

A Screenwriter’s Lament

It’s vulgar as all get out, yes. But I can understand both the sentiment expressed and the vitriol used in that expression.

http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/why-he-will-not-read-your-fucking-script/

Just because somebody thinks they have “cool ideas” for a novel, screenplay, whatever does NOT make that somebody a writer.

And I swear, the next person who hears what I do for a so-called living and tells me “Oh I love to travel! I could be a travel writer too!” will be in grave danger of getting hammered to death with the extended-life battery of my four-year-old laptop.



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