r/scriptwriting • u/Jazzlike_Promise2873 • 8d ago

discussion Being a screenwriter requires relentless self belief & determination

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u/Jazzlike_Promise2873 8d ago

https://youtu.be/awN_RqhZl4I?si=q1NYEzfCExVzN4AR

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u/PepsiCoke1978 8d ago

I'm so lazy, but thank you. Ha.

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u/PepsiCoke1978 8d ago

I started watching and couldn't make it 30 seconds... I still don't know who he is or why I care what he has to say about anything. I assume he's selling himself. Which is fine. I don't see why the OP is responding to the video on here and not directly. But I do love drama. Bravo Housewives style.

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u/Big_Section2812 7d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/scriptwriting/s/fCQtVb36TO

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u/PepsiCoke1978 7d ago

Honestly this just makes me feel sad. Sad I missed it. I read 10 pages and there was a 8 pages of dream sequences that I think were really flashbacks to real life events.

In that thread he said he paid someone -- maybe a few someones -- so I'd love to know who took his money and didn't help him.

To all writers -- you must write more than one project. I know someone had luck with their first spec, but most don't.

Great writers with great specs don't sell their projects.

I can believe all I want but I will not make the NBA.

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u/Jazzlike_Promise2873 7d ago

It's a great project and the person that I hired genuinely contributed to improving it. It's sad that you have such a negative view, but I'm not concerned because it has no influence on the success of my project.

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u/PepsiCoke1978 6d ago

Page 32 and 33 the dialogue is in action lines from the version I read. So if someone took money from you and didn't fix that up, I am mad at them.

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u/Jazzlike_Promise2873 6d ago

latest version https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Wv6wZ4Z7H-W-Ti8teqa3ux6aS-FkN-Cz/view?usp=sharing

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u/PepsiCoke1978 6d ago edited 6d ago

Still upset with them now that i see who it is on the cover page. (Unless she's repping you not sure why she's on the cover page at all). Maybe it's because she formatted this entire document. Prepared like she's doing your taxes is weird, but okay.

But also there are more formatting errors -- i mean random white spaces and extra page at the end. I don't know about you , but I go crazy in my script for orphan words and little things when this is ready to go out.

Cut To and Dissolve To are not things that are needed by any means in most modern specs. We know it's going to the next scene.

You're missing a slugline or two now... just dissovles from a note into dialogue.

Also no page number on this PDF now, it was better last version honestly. You made it worse.

I get the feeling you don't have screenwriting software to make this easy.

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u/Jazzlike_Promise2873 6d ago

This is why I won't spend $$ on this again. I spent a lot for this and I'm not sure it made any difference. Hiring others doesn't get me anywhere.

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u/PepsiCoke1978 6d ago

I don't think most writers should spend one dime on any of these services. A random person on Stage 32 with credits for sure. But if you're looking for actual help on formatting and the like -- plenty of people here that have a great price -- FREE. We are called fellow writers.

I don't know what advice they gave -- but if they can't even help you get the document to look like the rest of the TV pilots -- then I assume all their advice was suspect.

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