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This week's Answer:
Surviving
No Screenwriting
Not at all, T.K. It's perfectly
understandable that, if you didn't have screenwriting, your
mental faculties would crumble like a cookie and you'd
race madly through the streets, proclaiming, "I'm mad
as hell and I'm not going to write screenplays
anymore!" Perfectly understandable.
Surviving without screenwriting can
be very difficult. Maybe even impossible. But
it can be done. I'm not saying that it's easy.
But it can be done. Your letter comes at an
opportune time because I'm currently working on creating
and producing a reality show:
Surviving
Without Screenwriting
Concept: Screenwriters
are flown by helicopter to a remote island where they must stay alive
without cell-phones, laptops, computers, typewriters, word processors,
even paper and pen (not even toilet paper and pencils). If a
screenwriter contestant is discovered writing anything in a context
that resembles a screenplay format, such as using a twig to trace FADE
OUT: in the sand, or lining up cocoanuts to make a slug line, then
the contestant will disqualified and sent back home, where he or she
must remove all submissions to "Inktip" and not speak the
words, "option," "three-pic deal," nor
"points" for a whole year. If the contestant is
discovered to be
secretly creating a screenplay in his or her mind, a lobotomy is
performed on the contestant, wherein the contestant is sent home to
participate in a second reality show:
I
Want to be a Reality Show Producer
DcH
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