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[dreamer_easy]

Writing advice the way I like it: harsh, cold, and ruthless. >:)

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[qthewetsprocket.livejournal.com]

i want this man to have my babies.

i have to think doctors are the only people who must get this kind of 'hey, do your job for me for free?' solicitation more than writers...'hey doc, i've been having this cough for a while; what do you think it is?'

[iblis-kukl.livejournal.com]

[lexifab.livejournal.com]

I liked the piece, but what really impressed me was the pervasive air of desperate neediness and hostile entitlement in the comments section following the essay. Sounds like there are a lot of script writing hopefuls out there who think this is there only way into the business.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

It becomes obvious, as you read, that what he's objecting to is not so much being asked to read something, as the attitude of some of the amateurs doing the asking!

[lexifab.livejournal.com]

It must be the season for it: John Scalzi's just posted more or less the same article

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/09/15/on-the-asking-of-favors-from-established-writers/

(Is this perhaps related to the September thing where the interwebz used to go nuts around the same time that the freshman college term started in the US? Is there some 'screenplay season' equivalent?)

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

That guy's a lot harsher about it, and yet again it's the entitled attitude of the hopefuls that's got his back up!

[iblis-kukl.livejournal.com]