![]() ![]() And even if you've got a lot of time on your hands (which I didn't), you still can't read more than, say, 10 or 20 scripts in a week. See, it takes about an hour and a half to properly read a correctly-formatted screenplay. Within six months, I was sure I was being voodoo cursed by a couple hundred writers out there. They were coming in faster than I could keep up. So I made a policy of reading everything that came in - or at least of giving it a genuinely "fair go".Īfter about a month, I was so hopelessly behind, that I would never catch up. We were inundated with about a hundred and fifty.īut, being a writer myself (and knowing how much effort you put into it), I didn't want to just reject screenplays out of hand. There just aren't that many people in Australia writing screenplays. But a funny thing happened.Īnd when I say inundated, I don't mean we were swamped with hundreds of thousands of screenplays. Those producers are closing their minds to the more complex and valuable material, I assumed.Īnd then I started looking for screenplays to produce.īeing the enlightened one, I accepted any and all unsolicited screenplays through the Embryo films website. No matter WHAT I came up with, it could never truly reflect the richness of my words. How was anyone with talent supposed to break in, if the people within the system made it virtually impossible to get noticed?Īm I really supposed to be able to encapsulate my entire kick-ass, finely-detailed, one-hundred-page screenplay in TWO SENTENCES?! That's got to be the most ridiculous thing I'd ever heard. When I was a frustrated, struggling writer, I used to believe there was something wrong with the system. ![]()
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