Hilarious attempt by a script reader to “tweet” their experience while reading a less-than-stellar script:

I offer you a glimpse of my hell: “CAPTAIN JONES, ealry thrities.” This must have been written on a version of Word without spell check.

Not sure what I think of this. While I understand it’s good business, the creative side of me thinks it is complete horseshit and that you should write what comes naturally. Let the rest of the world figure out what box you fit in.

After you learn how to write a dynamite screenplay, you need to distinguish yourself by establishing your unique “brand.” By brand, we mean: How do you as a screenwriter stand out from a huge pool of screenwriters so that a producer says “you’re the one that I want”? Are you going to be the screenwriter who instantly comes to mind when a producer needs a comedy writer or a horror writer?

Regardless of how it all turns out. Author Anne Enright elaborates on her list of Ten Rules for Writing Fiction:

Remember, if you sit at your desk for 15 or 20 years, every day, not ­counting weekends, it changes you. It just does. It may not improve your temper, but it fixes something else. It makes you more free.

I still write on Saturdays. Sundays I take off though. Her first rule, though, is what stood out to me:

The first 12 years are the worst.