What? You’re sick and tired of waiting to be discovered? You want your 15 minutes of writerly fame now?! How about this for an idea: Instead of writing another spec script, go out and do something. Make your life so interesting, so meaningful, that everyone else in the world wants to write about/read about/watch a movie about you.
Or. what the hell, be the first one to write about somebody else who’s done just that:
No, I’m not talking about the J.J. Abrams movie but about a book written by one of my closest friends, Herb Solow, and his longtime wingman, the late Bobby Justman.
Herb – as Herbert F. Solow, Executive in Charge of Production for Desilu Studios, and Bobby – as Robert H. Justman, Producer – were two-third of the team that worked/fought like hell to get the Original STAR TREK on the air…and keep it there. Years later, these two keepers of the Places Where All the Bodies are Buried teamed up again to write the book Inside Star Trek: The Real Story.
…And he wants us to pay. Ah well, we all love him aspire to become him anyway:
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I also finished editing the pilot episode of our new internet project. It will be called “Learn English with Ricky Gervais” and it’s turned out great.
We hope to have it subtitled into as many languages as possible.
…And it just appeared today! (Who says OldMedia can’t compete?)
What does this have to do with television writing? Check out the Lockhorns’ expressions. Did you ever see such despair?
Pinar Tarhan has some quality insights into writing:
How to Handle Rejection (and When It Might Be A Good Thing) – by Pinar Tarhan
Writers are constantly exposed to a form of rejection. Well, no one likes to be rejected in any area, but we writers need to face the music more often than others. We apply to a lot of writing gigs both online and offline, try to get our stories/novels published, and/ or get our scripts read by producers/agents. And it doesn’t always matter whether we targeted the right market or abided by the guidelines. It doesn’t always make a difference that our writing is good, or the query letters rocked. John Grisham got rejected. J.K. Rowling got rejected. Do I really need to give more examples?