I Find The Quality Of His Blog Intimidating
Yeah, I blog, so what?Perhaps most known for his membership in our world-famous Artful Forum, but also somewhat known for cowriting War Of The Worlds, Josh Friedman has a new blog called I Find Your Lack Of Faith Disturbing.
You should read it. It’s really good. I hope to God he doesn’t keep up his current pace of quality and quantity, because he’s making the rest of us in the scribosphere look like hacks. Or maybe just me.
Nice job, Josh!
C.
No he’s definitely making me look like a hack…okay, maybe I’m making myself look like a hack. I can admit that…Is there a twelve step program available? (or since I’m a hack - a six step program?)
Not having a blog of my own (Today I slept til 4:00…watched Dr. Phil…dodged creditors…dinner was left over mac and cheese…), I have nothing to fear from Joshua, but I enjoyed the heck out of his blog, particularly the Koepp enkoenter at the WOTW premiere.
But (and maybe I should ask him this on his own blog), was there really that great a danger that he wouldn’t get any credit on WOTW? Doesn’t the WGA usually bend over backwards to honor the first writer on the project?
I thought it was virtually impossible for a first writer to not get credit. At least that was my experience when I participated in an arbitration (I helped someone else write one, it wasn’t my script.) 1st writer got credit, too, utterly undeservedly.
Josh is in his honeymoon phase. Remember, Craig, you posted massive articles almost daily at the start. Give him a month or two, and he’ll be posting “articles” that in are in fact mere links to other new screenwriter blogs.
And so it begins again.
I caught his last post about lesbians or something. That got my attention.
John:
I hate you sooooooo much. :)
I love his blog but why is it the best thing since sliced bread? All he does is call everyone assholes haha!
i have a love/hate relationship with that blog. and not the black out in a red room type.
but why is he writing films i don’t want to see whilst posting stuff i’d kill to see on screen?
still, as long as the blog is there, i guess i can live without the films that could’ve been.
(although his style doesn’t translate easily into screenplay format. maybe that’s the reason)
yeah, i like the tone over there. this is still my first stop, though
It is easy to write a lot in the beginning but after a while a blog/web site just becomes and addiction or a chore. It becomes something you have to do or hate to do but can’t stop - like washing your clothes.
In light of a few of these comments, I find the title of Josh’s blog oddly appropriate.
RED
Yeah, I love his ‘insider game’ take.
And kind of off-topic, yet on, been thinking of recent SM4 playoff’s (kinda an artfulwriter game of mine). Hey, saw your pic in the recent scr(i)pt mag, boy you sure did body-slam FP. :)
[ideas made to go POOF by the lawyers…]
As a car salesman I take exception to this. I am neither large, nor scary.
Just a reminder…everyone gets antsy about unsolicited ideas, not because it’s rude or anything, but because the lawyers get angry when we screenwriters get within a mile of someone pitching ideas at us…even in fun.
Sorry for the poofage, Chris. :)
Standing. Hands raised.
The car salesman rejoices!!
Ahh, yeah, sorry for the legal thicket dive-in. Momentary lapse, just I am the ‘story talk it out’ Alex Epsteinistic type — I bounce everything off, seeing if it sticks. But all in good fun, used car salesmen not withstanding. ;)
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