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| re: reading unsolicited scripts - Producer Ken Davenport on the closing of GETTIN' THE BAND BACK TOGETHER | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 08:13 pm EDT 09/02/18 | |
| In reply to: re: reading unsolicited scripts - Producer Ken Davenport on the closing of GETTIN' THE BAND BACK TOGETHER - ryhog 05:29 pm EDT 09/02/18 | |
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| I've never met a professional writer who said that doing it well was easy. Some may find it easier than others, but no one I know or have read about ever said it was easy. Getting your script read, meanwhile, is as easy as entering an open submission contest (the Yale Drama Series is free) or sending in to open submission theaters. Person to person networking can be tough, but it isn't the only way to get noticed. My hatred of standing in noisy, crowded spaces and talking about myself may have been a liability when I was younger, but it didn't hold back my career to any meaningful degree once I had actually mastered the skills of the craft. I know, each person's mileage may vary, but I read too many scripts from complete amateurs to believe that there are any meaningful barriers to having a script read by a professional. |
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| re: reading unsolicited scripts - Producer Ken Davenport on the closing of GETTIN' THE BAND BACK TOGETHER | |
| Posted by: ryhog 08:43 pm EDT 09/02/18 | |
| In reply to: re: reading unsolicited scripts - Producer Ken Davenport on the closing of GETTIN' THE BAND BACK TOGETHER - Singapore/Fling 08:13 pm EDT 09/02/18 | |
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| Chuck can speak for himself but I read what he wrote to imply relativity. I can do certain things more easily than a lot of people, and other things are more difficult for me to wrap my head around. (E.g., quantum physics, string theory...) I think we all have things we enjoy doing and things we CAN do and maybe even well, but that we don't enjoy and they are therefore a challenge. Your last paragraph perhaps. Anyway, let's all hope we can enjoy our labors, if that's not too thematic. :-) | |
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| re: reading unsolicited scripts - Producer Ken Davenport on the closing of GETTIN' THE BAND BACK TOGETHER | |
| Posted by: chuck6373 10:27 am EDT 09/03/18 | |
| In reply to: re: reading unsolicited scripts - Producer Ken Davenport on the closing of GETTIN' THE BAND BACK TOGETHER - ryhog 08:43 pm EDT 09/02/18 | |
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| I did not mean to imply that writing, at least writing well, is easy. Relativity is a good concept. When writing, one only needs to depend upon oneself; when finished it is easy to forget the struggle of getting from A to Z of that phase when facing the next challenge as a novice of being noticed. Think of it mathematically - a lot more scripts are written than are ever read. | |
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