The Day I Met The Unknown Screenwriter
Posted on December 9, 2007
Filed Under Uncategorized
Comments
41 Responses to “The Day I Met The Unknown Screenwriter”
Leave a Reply
-
Recently Written
- Spelling sound effects: Onomatopoeia
- Subplots Screenwriting Structure Part 16
- I Bow to Greatness…
- Character blockage…
- Screenwriting structure Part 15
- Is imagination natural talent?
- I bow to Greatness…
- Screenwriting Structure Part 14
- What’s up with The Unknown Screenwriter…
- Screenwriting structure Part 13 The Protagonist’s call to action dilemma
-
Categories
-
Archives
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
- July 2006
- June 2006
Scribosphere
- $1000 Film
- 101
- A Place Called Say It Say It Say It
- Ann Wesley Hardin
- As Long As I Don’t Have To Leave My Apartment
- Bamboo Killers
- Between The Pavement And The Stars
- Bootstrap Productions
- Borderline Inappropriate
- Brook Brannon
- Burbanked
- Carlo Conda’s Blog
- Confessions Of A Serial Hobbyist
- DanielMedley.com
- Development Hell
- Federal Income Tax Facts
- Fencing With The Fog
- Gravity
- Holy Embers Of Dreams
- If It Ain’t On The Page
- JoshuaJGreene.com
- Living The Romantic Comedy
- My Excellent Adventures
- My Next One Will Be Better
- Mystery Man On Film
- Nicholas J. Robinson
- Nicolle C. Jones
- On The Scene
- Our Man In Los Angeles
- Overheard Lines
- Paul Zadie
- Philosophy Of Screenwriting
- Pimped Fiction
- Planet Pooks
- Red Right Hand
- Revealing Of The Soul
- Rooneyverses
- Scenes From The Edge
- Screamwriter
- Screenwriting Manifesto
- Script Notes
- Sex In A Sub
- Shouting Into The Wind
- Supergun Cinema SuperBlog
- The Moviequill
- The Poke Show
- The Scherer Joy Of Writing
- The Screenwriter’s League
- The Unemployment Cafe
- The Word Demon
- The World’s Greatest Writerist
- Things They Won’t Tell You In Film School
- Think Virtue!
- Uninflected Images Juxtaposed
- Writer Joshua James
- Writing & Building
- Writing On Spec
Wait, so you’re not the unknown screenwriter? That’s weird.
Tom,
Apparently not… LOL.
Unk
Aren’t we all the unknown screenwriter?
Dude, that was you at the coffee shop? Man, I had no idea! :D
So, Unk?
When’s that zombie picture coming out?
ps. You really should try to kick those cigarettes. Nasty! ;-)
I like seeing this in screenplay format. Gives a glimpse of how UNK writes… I see you’re a big fan of em dashes.
Couple of thoughts, first, bumming cash off someone you just met? This guys a bum, and there is almost a blackmail aspect to it with the whole “I’m gonna write about it” schtick. And should writers really be talking about what they are writing during a writers strike?
Lastly, a zombie that passes for human is not really a zombie. There have been dozens of movies about cannables already.
Money for coffee but not for smokes . . .
I friggin’ love that.
I’ve been looking for a title for my zombie script. Brainmunchers sounds good.
Bravo, dude!
You meet the most interesting people when you open your laptop in a public place.
Apparently, I’m the Unknown Romance Writer. No one ever pretends to be me. Wah.
Will you pretend to be me in a coffee shop, Unk? Pretty please? Come on, I know you want to…
Well, I could pretend to be you, if you wanted to, but I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t look very good with a dress and make-up :P
Dave,
We are at that… LOL.
Elver,
Yeah, that’s me… Just look for the guy in the black ball cap that says FUGHEDABOUDIT wearing Ray-Bans… I wear ‘em even in the theater.
Mike,
BRAINMUNCHERS ain’t my baby… LOL. And if it was, I think I’d kill it.
Tom,
Yeah — love the dashes. I think subconsciously, it helps pacing and flow and I actually hate using a lot of small fragmented sentences…
rjschwarz,
This particular coffee shop is literally across the highway from a university so we get a lot of college kids bumming money, stealing tips — you name it.
And it’s cool to talk about what you’re writing I think… Even during the strike. I would simply assume that if a WGA writer was talking to me about a particular screenplay, it means they’re working on it as a spec.
Josh,
No way am I going to enable someone to smoke… LOL.
emily,
You can’t copyright a title… LOL. I actually hope the little prick reads this… LOL.
Fun Joel,
Danka…
Christian,
AbsoFUCKINGlutely.
Ann,
Something tells me I wouldn’t have the first clue on how to be YOU.
Elver,
Get a room… LOL.
Unk
I’m not a WGA writer so I may be wrong but I thought nobody was supposed to be writing anything, or so they tell each other, and then when the strike finally ends people turn in the “old” scripts.
Maybe that’s what happened last time and this time it’s a bit more realistic since writers write, they are compelled to, even without pay.
rjschwarz,
Even a WGA can still write during the strike… They just can’t be writing for a studio or producer. They can however, write a script for the spec market.
Unk
You gotta keep us updated if you see that idiot. I gotta konw what he will do or say if he notices the Ray Bans…..
Unk you son-of-a-bitch! Now I know where you hang out!
bobbie
Elver, I don’t wear makeup or dresses! You are so in.
Unk, believe it or not, you already have an idea how to be me. It’s all in the Ray Bans — the ONLY sunglass as far as I’m concerned.
I wear the Wayfarer II, green and tortoise. What about you?
Ryan,
I’ve seen this kid before and I’ve seen him bum money and cigarettes before…
Let’s just say he got me in a good mood.
bobbie,
All YOU had to do was ASK. LOL.
Unk
Ann,
I recently retired my 15 year old Wayfarer IIs. Solid black and I had a brand new pair of brown tortoise shell Wayfarer IIs that were also 15 years old that I’d never worn — still sitting in their box.
But not anymore… Hmm.
Every time I go looking for a pair of black Wayfarer IIs, they never have any.
But my friends tell me that the tortoise shell make me look friendlier… LOL.
I doubt it.
Unk
I was a black devotee too, for at least 10 years. Then they broke and I spent bottomless shekels on cheap imitations. When I finally decided to shell out again, the lure of the tortoise was too seductive to resist.
Personally I think the tortoise would make you irresistible and unbearably hip. I’m surprised you weren’t mistaken for Audrey Hepburn. I often am ;)
Ann,
Me hip?
Now that’s FUNNY. I’ve been called everything in the book but never hip — let alone, unbearably hip.
And I was just watching WAIT UNTIL DARK the other night and noticed that you two could be twins…
Unk
Unk,
BRAINMUNCHERS could be interesting if you have the zombies eat the brains out of people’s asses. Also, this guy has the ultimate HIGH CONCEPT — as in “you have to be HIGH to enjoy this CONCEPT”.
Poke
Did you say gotta in place of ‘got a’? Gotta isn’t a replacement for ‘got a’, it’s a replacement for got to.
You dissappoint me greatly.
Surprised not to see this theory suggested here, but is it possible that Fake Unk concocted this whole ruse just to draw out the One Real and True Unk? Is there some kind of reward somewhere for doing so?
‘Course, the sorry begging-for-money part of the story kind of flies in the face of such a scheme. The imposter was either extremely pathetic…or AN EVIL GENIUS.
Poke,
Agreed.
Carlo,
Actually, it can be used for either… Sometimes you just writes it as you hears it for certain characters… We’re not opening any approved or certified slang dictionaries here… We’re just writin’. Relax and go have a sammich.
Burbanked,
Long time no hear from… I wondered about that myself but this kid couldn’t have pulled something like that off…
Reward? Hell if there’s a reward, I’ll turn myself in.
Not.
Unk
Carlo, it was you, wasn’t it?
MaryAN,
Couldn’t have been Carlo… Young Man said:
“couple’a”
“gonna”
Carlo would NEVER make that mistake…
Unk
Carlo, this is an informal place where it’s polite to correct a mistake but egotistical to down someone for it. I think the amount of words I’ve read from UNK allow him a typo or grammatical error or two.
The funny thing is that I didn’t notice.
Wait a minute… I thought I was Unk… I mean- I thought I was you, not me… am I me? Well if I’m not me, then who the hell am I?
Audrey Hepburn?
Now I have the Replacement’s I’ll Be You and The White Stripes’ I’m Slowly Turning Into You stuck in my head. I call it I’ll Be Slowly Turning Into You.
Christian,
Thanks but it wasn’t a mistake… LOL.
spat,
You’re spat.
Ann,
So now you, spat, and Audrey… Triplets?
Tom,
Are you sure you’re not Carlo?
Unk
Whoa now, I’m gone for one day and there’s sudenly conspiracies about my identity. Maybe I am more worthy of the title “Unk”.
Or maybe I am Unk.
LOL
Anyways, I was just being a delightful itch in the arse about the whole ‘gonna’ thing. I wouldn’t expect better from myself. I mean Unk.
Sincerely, Tom.
I mean Carlo.
Unk
Unk,
No. And it’s freaking me out.
No… I’m Sparticus
All in all it could have been worst… he could have asked you if you liked snails as well as oysters! LOL
You know, if enough of us wrote our blogs out in format, the naysayers and praisers one day may be able to see past the pudding and realize that yes, there is a sweet cherry at the bottom…
Now, when you open your laptop in a California coffee shop, do you feel safe leaving it to pee?
Because I don’t even feel safe blinking in a new york coffee shop.
Well, maybe that’s a bit of an overstatement. I’ll blink.
I’ll just do it fast.
Clive,
I’ve read your comment at least 3 or 4 times… Sometimes it means different things to me. LOL.
Thank God.
Moviequill,
Ah… The naysayers. They say nay but they still read. Kinda funny to me.
jess,
I hate to say it but you’re right… I always half expect my laptop to be missing when I get back from the head.
I wouldn’t even consider writing in some New York coffee shops unless I had my own bag to piss in. Having said that… I’m just too lazy to shut down and take the laptop with me and I’m known for my bladder prowess… i.e., I can go all day and not take a piss no matter how much coffee I drink.
So that brings some of those New York coffee shops back into focus…
Unk
You are Unk and I claim my five pounds