Another Flukey Friday bites the dust…
So another Flukey Friday bites the dust… Was it good for you? I hope so.
Lots of email yesterday… Lots of EXCUSES from several pros I cannot name (they’re calling me crazy) for posting a page from a spec script that has yet to be finished.
Nobody could tell me WHY I’m crazy though… LOL. Well it’s all okay… It’ll come out in the wash. It always does, doesn’t it?
So what did we accomplish yesterday? Some of us stuck a page up so in no particular order, I’m sending you to each one that I know about so you can read the page… There’s some GOOD STUFF here…
By the way, I even earned a badge for my effort:
First of all, Red Right Hand’s Challenge… Very simple. Just post one page on your blog from any screenplay you’ve written within the last 365 days (I think there’s room for leniency) for all to see.
I also received a lot of email from regular visitors who want to know what the hell the point is?
First of all, do we really need a point? Don’t you have to make a friggin’ point with enough other garbage in your life? Sheesh.
The point for me was simply this… FUN. Pure and simple. The additional benefit I got from it was to read some ONE PAGES from some others out there and I don’t know about you but I read some good stuff. Additionally, doing something along these lines helps us become more of an actual community than a bunch of one-man or one-woman shows.
Who knows what could be in our collective future by performing these simple little tasks of bonding? And, it’s not like any of us are knocking on your door and surprising you like the relatives from hell… LOL.
So if you haven’t yet posted your ONE PAGE, go for it. If you don’t know how to do it, here’s how I did it. I simply went into my screenwriting program and kept zooming in on the page until I thought it might fit on the blog. Then I did a screen capture with Paint Shop Pro which I use quite a bit. If you don’t know how to do a screen capture, go ahead and send me a PDF file of your ONE PAGE and I’ll do it for you. How simple is that?
Once you have your page up on your blog, go to Red Right Hand’s blog and click on the link that says, COMMUNIQUES and leave a comment that says you posted your one page… And, if you like, go ahead and post a comment here and I will post a link to your ONE PAGE right here with the rest of the links.
Okay, got that outta the way… Cool.
Now what’s the point?
Hey, this is like displaying artwork, ya know? Are we not proud of what we do? Who better to show your stuff off to than a bunch of other screenwriters? And, I’m sure comments and questions are more than welcome by everyone involved. Maybe a few of us will network and find another “set of eyes” to look at our screenplays… Maybe someone will want to read the rest of the script. Who knows? Who cares? More than anything else, IT’S JUST FOR FUN. Do you like fun?
Here’s everyone that’s posted thus far (that I know of) so if I left you out, email me or leave a comment:
SHADO (click the one page link)
BETWEEN THE PAVEMENT AND THE STARS
If I’ve missed anyone, just let me know and I will be happy to throw you right on up here with the rest…
A side note… Gotta few emails asking about the long list of blogs I was linking to…
I visited EVERY ONE OF THEM for quite a few days making a list of the most updated when lo and behold, my Google pagerank dropped by a point. Bad experiment I guess, so gone is the blog roll and I’m only linking to those blogs that link back to me and in less than 24 hours my pagerank is back… So if you want to trade links and you update your blog more than once a month, I am more than happy to reciprocate links with you… Just let me know.
Back to the rewrite…
Unk
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Tried. Still have no idea how to do this.
Let me get this straight…
You can make cookies…
You can clean the old dried out piss on concrete..
You can lay tile…
But you can’t do THIS?
Something tells me you’ll figure it out. If you need help, let me know.
Unk
Hey, thanks for reminding me to update my links.
You’re now included. Of course.
Got you back up taZ…
You might want to republish your entire blog though… A few pages of your blog are appearing broken up on both Firefox and IE… That seems to happen with Blogger sometimes…
Unk
Speaking of which, I need to add some links. Half the blogs I visit I have to go through a chain (of fools) to get to. Most of my bookmarks redundant, outdated links. I need to clean my computer.
I, for one, am glad I survived the Great Link Culling of ‘06.
My one page is coming soon. As soon as I find a page that doesn’t make me barf…
Dave,
Outstanding!
Sometimes it’s best to use the EENY MEENY MINY MOE method…
Unk
Unk,
Good stuff on your blog. Even before reading about the 1 page challenge, I posted some scenes on my newly created blog. I’m going to post a random page in a few moments.
It’s interesting that the pros are calling you crazy for doing so. That is the mindset Mystery Man addressed head on in his recent rant/manifesto.
The more I think about it, the more I realize he’s absolutely correct.
My father was a professor of microbiology at Johns Hopkins, and when he would publish papers, I remember he’d get comments and requests for clarification from all around the world. It’s all part of the process of the global dialogue between scientists.
Screenwriters should not fear interaction.
-Matt
Hey Unk,
as you might’ve already read. D.Chesher suggested somebody post a first draft of a first page. Well I commited myself to it on her OnePage Contest comments.
here it is: Click
I have no google pagerank.
Alas, I am a crumb on the floor of the internets. (Not a truck, though — a tube, a tube.)
I’m in… fun reading one pages…
My one pager
You inspired me to put a page up from an old script. The only time I tried drama. (I ran right back to comedy.)
Yeah - it became too much work…I suppose I could scan a page, but…
pooks,
You have a pagerank of 5! That’s better than mine but I’m moving right along… LOL.
Dave, Christina, and Dave… Will get links up later today. It’s fucking Monday ALREADY?
Geez.
WC…
Who wants to scan pages after polishing turds anyway?
Unk
There’s no good reason not to do it
(aside from technical difficulties).
If you’re worried about someone ripping off your concept, the post a page that doesn’t give up the concept.
Even then, so you’ve come up with a script about Richard Nixon being reincarnated as a vampire hamster. So somebody else gets that idea too. Big deal.
If it’s gonna sell, it’s going to be the good script that sells. VERY VERY VERY few of us a can sell a pitch in a room. You got to write the script, and so does the guy that steals your concept. And if he writes the better script, you were probably screwed anyway.
Y’know…in comics…Warren Ellis blogs about his ideas before he writes them, then occasionally puts up a page or two of script as he writes them. Then those ideas are paid for by a publisher, published and become very popular. In some part BECAUSE he did that.
He’s doing it now, with a book that has yet to be set up anywhere. When it does, it will be very popular.
Thing about screenwriters…the only writers who don’t want people to read their stuff.
You know, jsut thinking about it now…it’d be damned hilarious if someone got a prodco read request from their page.
Funnier if it ends up selling.
Not likely. Not impossible.
Yeah, I figured it out, Unk. It was simple. I got a chivalrous male to do it for me while I rebuilt my son’s carburetor and changed the oil in the weedeater.