Raena
10-19-2000, 10:51 PM
I've read probably every book out there on the market. I've studied several screenplays. I dissected film, television, and stage, anything with conversation. I know every cool Screenwriting site to go to. I've won some awards by default. I've got my scripts through some doors and in the hands of some names (to drop?). All of that led me to the realization that I didn't want it bad enough. Because the more I studied that side of the industry. . the pre-production. .the more I realized it wasn't for me. And even if I did succeed and get my script on the big screen, it still wouldn't be my words because more than likely my script would have gotten re-written and re-written and re-written and re-written more times than I can type the word or copy and paste the word into this post.
Yeah, so what if I'd have like maybe 50 G's in my pocket? If that if I'm lucky because I'd be a new screenwriter. Yet, it still wouldn't be my words on the screen, only my name attached to a pathetic film. A film so-o pathetic that I will never work in Hollywood again. And the 50 G's really wouldn't be mine either, it'd all go to student loans and credit card debt. Yep. So I pretty much gave up.
I still write screenplays, because all in all, I love to write first. I just realized it was a waste of my time to pursue the life of a screenwriter. Masochistic even. And that maybe I would be better off penning a novel or something, just so some studio executive could come up to me and say, "You know, your masterpiece would be a great film." And I'd let them take it and develop it into crap so then at least when people walk out of the theater, they'll be saying, "The book is definitely better than the movie."
So, basically, I admire all of you out there pursuing screenwriting as a career. It takes a lot of heart to pursue it. And with practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, and some prayer, perhaps you'll make it.
[This message has been edited by Raena (edited 10-20-2000).]
Yeah, so what if I'd have like maybe 50 G's in my pocket? If that if I'm lucky because I'd be a new screenwriter. Yet, it still wouldn't be my words on the screen, only my name attached to a pathetic film. A film so-o pathetic that I will never work in Hollywood again. And the 50 G's really wouldn't be mine either, it'd all go to student loans and credit card debt. Yep. So I pretty much gave up.
I still write screenplays, because all in all, I love to write first. I just realized it was a waste of my time to pursue the life of a screenwriter. Masochistic even. And that maybe I would be better off penning a novel or something, just so some studio executive could come up to me and say, "You know, your masterpiece would be a great film." And I'd let them take it and develop it into crap so then at least when people walk out of the theater, they'll be saying, "The book is definitely better than the movie."
So, basically, I admire all of you out there pursuing screenwriting as a career. It takes a lot of heart to pursue it. And with practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, and some prayer, perhaps you'll make it.
[This message has been edited by Raena (edited 10-20-2000).]