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How YOU’RE finding The Unknown Screenwriter…

I thought I would do the several hundred people out there performing specific searches and winding up at The Unknown Screenwriter a favor and try answer their questions or direct them to the right site…

Here’s the very top, most searched for phrase:

1)

Answer? You keep forgetting to stick a “?” at the end of that search phrase! How in the hell do you expect the search engines to answer a question if you don’t put it in the form of a question? But seriously… Do you really think you’re gonna find that out by typing it into a search engine? Hmmm. So many people perform that search every day that I’m tempted to go ahead and answer it. Answer it on say, 15 or 20 web sites out there so that when the actual answer does finally get tossed in the hat one day, what the hell you gonna do then?

2)

Yeah… I did this one on purpose… LOL. I wrote the post about the “” program and purposely used “28 Days Later” as the headline knowing that 28 WEEKS LATER was coming out in theaters pretty soon. It was simply a hunch on my part that it would drive a lot of traffic to the site so I played it and BAM! I do feel kinda bad though… Why? Because I keep making sales of that program… I keep hoping that someone will go ahead and send me an email with some kind of review but nope. Now here’s the kicker… You’d be surprised to know WHO ACTUALLY BOUGHT that program… LOL. You would immediately recognize a couple of the names that bought it. I imagine they bought it to find out what the competition is doing; so in a way… I feel kinda redeemed by knowing that screenwriting gurus are purchasing “Write Your Screenplay in 28 Days or Less” — I guess that’s the ONE PART of the puzzle they haven’t quite figured out… LOL. By the way, I don’t have the screenplay…

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Getting lots and lots of traffic on of which I still have a ways to go. Who would have thought that this kind of information would be important to a bunch of screenwriters? Glad to help… As a matter of fact, as soon as the series is over, it’ll be available on the download page in a PDF file.

4)

Even though I never posted about this little PDF file, it gets downloaded like crazy every day… Available on the — I created this file so I could print out a bunch of photo-blue forms that would allow me to write pages by hand if I need to and sometimes, I do. I keep a stack of these pages printed on both sides on a clipboard and inside my backpack just in case.

5)

Are you trying to get to ?

6)

Cool… I’m in some good company here so I can’t complain.

7)

Same here.

8)

Third time’s a charm…

9)

Again… In good company here but are you looking for MaryAnita over at ?

10)

Oops… The post comes right back up… LOL. Sorry about that.

11)

That’s kinda cool… Gotta be screenwriters making this search, right?

12)

Geez. I come up number one on this but no… You can’t find this book here… Head on over to . I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT! *EDIT: In less than a half-hour after this post, I am no longer number one… LOL.

13)

Keep searching once you get here… I’m sure you’ll find something on this… LOL.

14)

I don’t know if these people are actually looking for me or not… LOL.

15)

There’s a hell of a lot more but I think this one pretty much sums it all up…

More transformational character arc coming up…

Unk




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22 Responses to “How YOU’RE finding The Unknown Screenwriter…”

  1. Nick on Monday: 14 May 2007|1907

    I love the fact that so many people are actually searching for screenwriting tips. Here’s hoping it leads to a revitalization of the “well written” movie.

  2. Unk on Monday: 14 May 2007|1916

    Nick,

    I agree. A year ago, searches for anything screenwriting were way less than half of what they are today…

    Outstanding.

    Unk

  3. James on Monday: 14 May 2007|1941

    Thanks for the link, way back when. I get most my hits off #13.

    I’m actually surprised how high up my little blog pops on some of the searches.

    I’d list them, but Unk, you write more often than I do, have a bigger base… and would write to those holes, pushing my teeny blog farther down the ladder :p.

    I posted on Emily Blake’s blog (similar topic) about how the strangest hit I’ve gotten so far is “making love to dead horses.”

  4. Unk on Monday: 14 May 2007|1954

    James,

    There was actually a few more weird ones but I got bored by number 15. LOL.

    Whenever you want to trade links, just let me know… I try to reciprocate links with everyone who links here. Of course, I gotta know about the link first.

    Unk

  5. Unk on Monday: 14 May 2007|2015

    Oh and James,

    I would never purposely write to some other blog’s holes or purposely try to compete with like-posts. I just happen to KNOW what people are searching for when it comes to the subject of screenwriting.

    I write to THOSE HOLES.

    Unk

  6. suburban screenwriter on Tuesday: 15 May 2007|0431

    I think we all get a few head scratchers like you were searching for what??

    unk you forgot the search phrase who is that masked man hehe

    Damn–forgot the question mark.

  7. Moviequill on Tuesday: 15 May 2007|0507

    I think I know that MaryAn Unknown… I was on Amazon last night and see that Martell’s Action book is up to $148 now haha. I am so broke but tempted to sell it and earn some dough? Nope

  8. Joshua James on Tuesday: 15 May 2007|0618

    You mean, if I google ‘Stud-pie” I won’t get this site?

    Damn.

    You’re right, though . . . I remember two years ago, spring of 05, I had been running my blog for about five months and there was an article in the New York Times about John August’s blog . . . I went there and followed the links . . . but the scribosphere was much smaller then, it’s exploded in the meantime, growing at a metabolic rate.

    And a lot of blogs crashed and burned, but it’s totally unreal, how much more one can get from this kind of intereaction then one would from a book . . .

    Not that there’s anything wrong with books, mind you . . . me likey books very much.

    BTW, I’m told if you put the words LINDSEY LOHAN’S NIPPLES in a post, it will drive your hits up.

  9. Pamela Schott on Tuesday: 15 May 2007|0943

    How come you get to have all the fun? My google searches are so vanilla: “Sell my script,” etc. Where’s the raunch?

    What will it take, Unk?

  10. Unk on Tuesday: 15 May 2007|1608

    Moviequill,

    You can always become an affiliate of MOVIE IN A MONTH! Even though I made fun of the course, I’m selling 2 or 3 a week from that post.

    The good news?

    I pays for my Americanos.

    Pamela,

    Where’s the raunch? LOL. I don’t get it.

    SS,

    No masks here… But I do sit in the shadows…

    Unk

  11. Script Demon on Tuesday: 15 May 2007|1805

    Unk! Please, dude. This blue shit is murder on the eyes. I love reading your blog, but I need my vision for work. IE: DA SCREENWRITING, PAESANO.

  12. Unk on Tuesday: 15 May 2007|1829

    SD,

    Now would that really be fair to all the readers who LIKE the blue?

    Unk

  13. spatula on Tuesday: 15 May 2007|1852

    Hmmm… my top keywords are “naked girls” “supergun” “macbeth 3000″ “short movies” and “naked pool party”… “hand jobs” is in there somewhere too. How the hell did that happen?!?!

  14. Script Demon on Wednesday: 16 May 2007|0125

    Sorry, UNK. Not a question of liking so much as sharp pain shooting through my retinas into that part of my brain that controls vision. I LOVE BLUE, BTW. And, yes, I AM getting old.

    While we’re on the subject of this thing we do, I have a question over on my blog and wouldn’t mind your “vision” on (or is it “of” — fucking words) the issue I raise.

  15. Ann Wesley Hardin on Wednesday: 16 May 2007|0604

    Search engine phrases can be a hoot. At least the ones you showed us make sense. I get some doozies.

    Currently, more people come to my blog looking for the WWII pics of my dad’s plane than they do for moi. Oh well, maybe they’ll pick up a book while they’re there.

  16. Joshua James on Wednesday: 16 May 2007|0627

    You mean STUD PIE wasn’t on the search list?

    I coulda swore . . .

  17. Ann Wesley Hardin on Wednesday: 16 May 2007|0631

    LMAO! Is it gonna be another one of those fun-filled days? I just handed in final edits…

  18. Clive on Thursday: 17 May 2007|0641

    My google hits are all pretty much screenwriting and low budget indie film related. I do pretty well on anything related to multi-protagonist screenplays because I’ve written a fair amount about that subject.

    The only thing I would say, is if you write a post called “Short Films Suck Ass” as I did recently, you get some great hits from people searching for a more literal interpretation of those words!

  19. MaryAn on Thursday: 17 May 2007|1307

    As for question #1, perhaps you should do some sort of an email lotto and invite your minions to guess your identity. Naturally, those who get it right will never know until that day, if it ever comes, when you choose to expose yourself. Some of us don’t care if you ever expose yourself — my grandmother’s whole “show a little ankle” theory seems to be serving you well.

  20. Ann Wesley Hardin on Thursday: 17 May 2007|1429

    The vision of Unk showing a little ankle is killing me here.

  21. Warren on Thursday: 17 May 2007|2149

    Search engines omit question marks.

  22. Unk on Friday: 18 May 2007|1529

    SS,

    Come on… You know you like SHOOTING PAIN. Otherwise, why would you come visit?

    Ann,

    In other words, they’re dropping by looking for HEROES.

    Josh,

    Stud pie? Please tell me you’re not making THOSE kinds of searches… LOL.

    Clive,

    Short films… I got nothin’.

    MaryAn,

    Yeah… It is serving me well. That’s why everybody stops by!

    Ann,

    Killing you in a good way I hope. If not, I apologize.

    Warren,

    I know. It was my own silly attempt at being facetious.

    Unk

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