Do you want to know how the whole writing thing works? Got a great novel/script burning inside you, busting to get out? Then
read James Moran's blog and get the answers.
Honestly, I couldn't have said it better.
Especially this bit:
"If I send you my stuff, will you read it and give me feedback?
No.
Why not? Five reasons.
(1) Because I get tons of requests like this, and I'd never get any writing done if I started saying yes.
(2) Because if your story features a giant robot, and in a year's time you see a Doctor Who story with a giant robot, you might think I nicked your idea and sold it to the production team.
(3) Because if I'm already writing something similar to yours, I'll have to abandon it, otherwise I'll feel like I'm copying it.
(4) Because I don't have the spare time, the spare brainpower, the spare energy.
(5) Because I'd probably be completely wrong about your script anyway - sure, I love A Clockwork Orange and all sorts of clever movies. But I also love movies like Road House. And I'll defend Road House to the death, passionately, not in a "so bad it's good" kind of way, I genuinely love it and think it's a great movie. I might read your script and say it's no good, because it doesn't have a fight scene between two men in sweaty pants. You don't want that."
James Moran, you rock.
The other very cute thing is when you comment, the blog assigns you a cute little blog-monster avatar. Mine has one eye, a protruding brain and batwings. It's like looking in a mirror!
