In a final push in what must be the most posts ever put up on the Scripped blog in a single day, I offer this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-handel/hollywood-under-siege_b_143373.html. Don’t let the “Huffington Post” URL fool you. This is probably the most thorough and insightful piece on the evolution of Hollywood and the Internet that I’ve come across.
You HAVE to enter this competition that CoverageInk is sponsoring. It’s called Writers on the Storm and the first prize is 10 grand. If I had any talent whatsoever, I’d enter myself. Instead, I rely on Zak and Ryan to do all the talking/writing.
Special thanks to Jim Cirile for his nice post the other day about his young daughter writing with Scripped! I can say with certainty that our partnership with Coverage Ink will be beneficial to the Scripped community. We will be announcing more details on our coverage partnership with Coverage Ink soon!
In the meantime, enter this competition and make some $$$! Tell us if you wrote your script on Scripped and please notify us of any success stories! The folks at CI are extremely nice, and they, or Scripped will be happy to help you with any questions about the competition.
Writers on the Storm Screenplay Competition
*DEADLINE APPROACHING 7/7/08*
$10,000 first prize!
Over $22,000 in total prizes
www.writerstorm.com
Writers on the Storm is presented by Coverage Ink and Writers Boot Camp, two leading names in screenwriting education. With over 140 companies participating and the most development-heavy prize package of any contest, WOTS is designed to help you take Hollywood by storm.
BONUS for Scripped members: ENTER the contest, then e-mail us at info@coverageink.com and say, “I want my free CI Spec Format & Style Guide 2008!” and we’ll send you our fun and comprehensive 80-page guide as a PDF download for free!
Or submit your script to Coverage, Ink for analysis before the 7/27, and contest entry is FREE!
Sorry for the delay, folks. Turns out you can’t blog from China! I don’t know how they do it, but the Party knows which are blogging websites and which are not, and from inside the country my browser cannot find Wordpress. God bless America.
Fortunately, China has other things going for it, like cheap food, cheap taxis, some great universities, and very cheap beer. In fact, I even had two cans of Tsingtao on the plane ride back to the homeland so I could sleep better. And believe me, sleep I did. China is also in the middle of an incredible infrastructure boom. This is no 3rd world country; it has all the fixings of a major metropolis. There’s a maglev in Shanghai and 8-lane streets throughout Beijing. The internet is slow and censored but it is certainly available, and often is free at cafes. The people, from my limited perspective, are friendly and happy. But then again, I mostly saw and interacted with the business class. That’s less than 1% of China.
But, according to the project I worked on as part of MIT’s China Lab, there are plenty of writers in China! A website, run by ChineseAll, gets 50 million uniques each month and has content driven by real Chinese authors. It’s almost like a Scripped for novels, which is why I was so enthusiastic about working on this project. This is a model that works, and in China they’re already ahead of us, 50 million users strong. This was the best spring break ever.
Unfortunately, it meant I didn’t get my outline done, but I have a bit more inspiration and real-life experience than I left with, and that should count for something. I also read half of William Goldman’s book, Adventure’s in the Screen Trade, which I thought was marvelous. Then the time change caught up with me and I fell asleep. Still, I feel invigorated and excited to do this Script Frenzy.
I’ll do my outline today in entrepreneurship class. The writing starts tomorrow!
We won our first contest. Ryan delivered yesterday by bringing home the Harvard College Innovation Challenge Elevation Pitch Competition! We’ll add the $100 to our bank account… Nice work Ryan!
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