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I can't take this dry weather any more. The past few weeks in NYC have been steaming HOT!!! I worked several days last week on a short comedy titled "MR. LUV" which was written by Daniel Cooper and co-directed by Daniel Cooper and Mike Walker. I was the Script Supervisor and it was oven hot out every single day. There was no right way to dress because regardless of what you were or were not wearing the sun was just too powerful. Even the shade was hot…Nevada hot…I'm looking forward to colder days, but with this global warming crisis who knows when they will come …
Anyway, I've been trying once again to organize my personal life as well as my career. I had a super long chat with my good pal, Director Mark Ezovski , regarding the future of film and the evolution of the screenwriter. We were chatting it up about the industry and Mark helped me realize that I have been pretty busy for a writer without an agent… Disregarding what my IMDB page says, I've worked on a lot of projects in 2007 alone.
The majority of the projects I've work on I got via word of mouth…I helped someone with something…most likely something I didn't remember doing the second it was completed but nevertheless…down the line I get an email or phone call regarding my line of work…
Truth be told…I'm not agent material…I'm just not ready. In between working on contracted stuff I still have my own projects I desire to complete.
I think 2008 might be a good year to beg for representation. I'll produce massive query letters, spam 'em out and sit back and bask in the sweet aroma of rejection until I get a response.
Joyce looks for typos
At this moment I can't ask someone to work with me on getting bigger projects…I am still working on my spelling and grammar errors, which I make plenty of.
I love reading other writers work and seeing tons of type-os…it gives me a sense of belongingness…I sit back and say to myself…"thank god I'm not the only one"…
I recently re-wrote a short script that I had no intentions of touching again and the number of type-os were embarrassing…It's like I never stepped foot in an English class a day in my life…as if I was diagnosed with this common disease called stupidity and there's no cure…
Proof reading my own work doesn't work and I think I am at a bad point in my career were I rely solely on having some of my friends spell check my work…by the way I do use spell check on Final Draft but it just doesn't catch my poor grammar…
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