Always bring your mother f**king A game.
Rejection letters Page 3
Quote: sootyj @ 4th April 2014, 6:08 PM BSTAlways bring your mother f**king A game.
Exactly.
it's a first date.
So wash your knob.
I actually haven't submitted any sitcom scripts in 2 years, because I don't think I've had anything good enough.
Quote: Ben @ 4th April 2014, 2:44 PM BSTNothing to riducule, Mikey. It just sounds novel.
I've written plenty for foreign climes recently, so certainly don't think there's anything wrong with it. I've earnt more 'out' of the UK than in it.
Yeah, I suppose it does seem a bit strange, work coming out of Africa.
Mind you, I don't think I'd actually like to try my luck with Nigeria though. Unless of course it's funded by a Nigerian prince with a dead mother who wants to stead my life savings of... about a tenner.
Quote: Lazzard @ 4th April 2014, 6:52 PM BSTExactly.
it's a first date.
So wash your knob.
Bugger. It seems obvious now.
I wish you'd mentioned this sooner.
If we're all freelancers I suspect we've all made money from some odd places.
I recently was writing for a mormon tampon delivery company, kids stories for a weird guy who pretended his kids had written them, ghost writing for 2 diferent women prisoners from California.
Just so long as they pay, I'm happy maybe we should set up a freelancers thread.
Quote: JaPi @ 2nd April 2014, 11:43 PM BSTI don't think the problem is with me. If it were I think there'd be a lot more people coming to this site for feedback.
Anyway, thanks people for your grounded interpretations. It seems I'm right to be encouraged (to the extent that I am), and I've not just been taken in by a standard rejection letter. This is good.
Firstly, listen carefully to the advice of the writers on this forum - they really know about rejection.
Secondly, a rejection letter is just that, no more, no less. There is no such thing as an encouraging rejection letter. If they thought you were any good they would have asked you in.
The problem IS you. It's always you. You are in the communications business and you have to find the exact wavelength the audience is tuned to and speak to them on it.
Most unsolicited scripts are skimmed. Scenarios and jokes need to be clear and obvious. Complicated stories and set-ups will get your script binned. If you have a fantastic idea for a sitcom that requires investment and careful reading save it and make your calling-card script about a man with a TV aerial for a cock who's trying to avoid paying the licence fee.
Don't be precious about your writing. If you're interested in the integrity of the written word and crafting a line become a poet. Sitcom writing is contingent writing - like journalism.
Quote: Godot Taxis @ 4th April 2014, 7:08 PM BSTFirstly, listen carefully to the advice of the writers on this forum - they really know about rejection.
Ouch!
But other wise very fair.
Nice to see you back in these parts again.
I suspect Mormon tampon delivery companies make loads of dosh as Mormon husbands surely buy in bulk.
I suspect they try and stay as far as possible from half a dozen wives and a dozen daughters on the blob at the same time.
Quote: sootyj @ 4th April 2014, 7:10 PM BSTOuch!
But other wise very fair.
Nice to see you back in these parts again.
I'd like to post more often but I don't actually want to encourage people to write. I want them to stop. When you have shows like Hebburn and Mrs. Brown's Boys on primetime what possible advice can you give?
And W1A for years I've been saying satire isn't about copying.
Because you'd just watch and laugh at the original.
Then they make W1A which is just a reflection.
Satire is a fractured reflection.