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dreamer_easy ([personal profile] dreamer_easy) wrote2009-09-12 09:03 am
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Writing advice the way I like it: harsh, cold, and ruthless. >:)

[identity profile] kateorman.livejournal.com 2009-09-15 09:11 am (UTC)(link)
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!

[identity profile] lexifab.livejournal.com 2009-09-16 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
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?)

[identity profile] kateorman.livejournal.com 2009-09-17 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
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!