Comments for Screenwriter's Compass http://indelibleink.com/wp Navigating the art, craft, and business of film writing. From one who's been there and survived to tell the tale. Tue, 11 May 2010 09:21:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on The Habit of Respect by Guy Gallo http://indelibleink.com/wp/2010/04/21/the-habit-of-respect/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Guy Gallo Tue, 11 May 2010 09:21:01 +0000 http://indelibleink.com/wp/?p=463#comment-10 Oops. Egg on face. Perhaps it supports the contention that real proof-reading has to happen on a hard copy.... Oops. Egg on face.

Perhaps it supports the contention that real proof-reading has to happen on a hard copy….

]]> Comment on The Habit of Respect by Polanaut http://indelibleink.com/wp/2010/04/21/the-habit-of-respect/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Polanaut Tue, 11 May 2010 04:36:14 +0000 http://indelibleink.com/wp/?p=463#comment-9 Guy, can't let this one slip by, re: proofreading. The first sentence of "Literalism and Poetic License" contains the very error you mention that spellcheck doesn't catch. Apart from that, nice to have stumbled upon you! - Dan Guy, can't let this one slip by, re: proofreading. The first sentence of "Literalism and Poetic License" contains the very error you mention that spellcheck doesn't catch.
Apart from that, nice to have stumbled upon you!
- Dan

]]> Comment on The Treatment by GrimBlazer http://indelibleink.com/wp/2010/02/17/the-treatment/comment-page-1/#comment-6 GrimBlazer Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:19:55 +0000 http://indelibleink.com/wp/?p=393#comment-6 It’s interesting. When I first studied screenwriting a zillion years ago, I was taught that treatments normally ran from sixty to eighty pages or so. They were extremely detailed and provided a complete outline of the proposed screenplay. Nowadays people call documents as little as five to ten pages treatments—which we used to call synopses. To your point, I think anyone today investing the time to write sixty to eighty pages should just stop and write the screenplay already. That’s called a first draft. It’s interesting. When I first studied screenwriting a zillion years ago, I was taught that treatments normally ran from sixty to eighty pages or so. They were extremely detailed and provided a complete outline of the proposed screenplay. Nowadays people call documents as little as five to ten pages treatments—which we used to call synopses.

To your point, I think anyone today investing the time to write sixty to eighty pages should just stop and write the screenplay already. That’s called a first draft.

]]> Comment on Read it: Money 101 by GrimBlazer http://indelibleink.com/wp/2010/01/22/read-it-money-101/comment-page-1/#comment-4 GrimBlazer Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:03:39 +0000 http://indelibleink.com/wp/?p=347#comment-4 Great post. People would do well to look at the career of the late American composer Charles Ives . Though a successful composer, he spent a lifetime working in the insurance industry. From the looks of it, he never depended on music to earn a living. Worth considering given the odds of selling your screenplay. Great post. People would do well to look at the career of the late American composer Charles Ives . Though a successful composer, he spent a lifetime working in the insurance industry. From the looks of it, he never depended on music to earn a living. Worth considering given the odds of selling your screenplay.

]]> Comment on The Binding Question by GrimBlazer http://indelibleink.com/wp/2010/01/19/the-binding-question/comment-page-1/#comment-3 GrimBlazer Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:27:36 +0000 http://indelibleink.com/wp/?p=338#comment-3 I agree wholeheartedly with using two brads and washers. As far as covers, I always use black. I once worked with a director who said, “I won’t read anything that doesn’t have a black cover.” He was probably kidding but since then I have used nothing but black. I agree wholeheartedly with using two brads and washers. As far as covers, I always use black. I once worked with a director who said, “I won’t read anything that doesn’t have a black cover.” He was probably kidding but since then I have used nothing but black.

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