Hillary Marek

@oelma__ There is no cure it's being human. Part of the experience, you can learn coping mechanisms and strategies to where the impact of it doesn't knock you down for days at a time. We need to experience small bouts of depression from time to time. We can't be happy shiny people 24-7

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@storyandplot I hate loglines tbh I feel like they all sound so cliche and when I read them in mind I hear Mr movie phone guy

Old Thinking: This screenplay does not lend itself to a good logline, so I don't care about loglines. New Thinking: Maybe this isn't a great idea for a screenplay.

@mcknight_writes I fear thou wouldst taketh me up upon thy shield and expose my very soul to suffer unbearable atrocities in place of a moment of inconvenience that might fall upon thy shadow and place truth where deception doth currently lie. I shall endure no more of this assemblage. Go forth.

Writing is fun because right now I'm sitting here trying to come up with a medieval-sounding way of saying "That sounds like a 'you' problem"🤣

@mcknight_writes Twas not my plight that hath endured such disfortunate wrath. As now it is with heavy heart an a solemn prayer I do bequeath, and bid thee ado.

@theyoungilkim @HwoodScrptReadr But I genuinely like helping people. So if you find me on @substack, @LinkedIn @Clubhouse or Chatter social app, I will talk with you for hours. And because you made the effort, I’d happily do the same. The takeaway: engage with the community=get seen.

@theyoungilkim @HwoodScrptReadr Because no matter how nice the cover letter is, if I don’t know you, (it’s not hard to reach out & say hi I’m ___ do you have time to read my script, I’d appreciate any feedback.) I am not obligated to read/respond/promote/greenlight/network anything for anyone.

This one's gonna get me in trouble but I have to respond to a comment I've gotten more than once. Here goes: Maybe, just maybe there's a pile of brilliant screenplays out there somewhere that no one has ever read but I doubt it. I mean there could be some genius screenwriter no one has ever heard of who puts their finished scripts in a desk drawer and never shows anyone ever but who would do that? Screenplays are the currency of the industry. They are its lifeblood. Every young creative exec and junior agent in Hollywood is out there looking for new writers with unique voices all day, every day. That's why they work 60+ hours a week, give up their Sundays to read a pile of crappy screenplays, and schlep themselves to film festivals all over the world to sit through bad indie movies for 10 hours a day. And here's the thing. Good news travels fast. Everybody wants to be the person who found this or that and brings it to their boss because that's the fastest way to get ahead in this business. A spec is a calling card. Sometimes they get made, most of them don't. What they do kickstart a career. They get you noticed. They get you meetings where you start to make meaningful connections. So that when you go out with your next one you're already on their radar. From my many many years of experience I know one thing is true. Most scripts are pretty bad. Mediocre at best. Like 90% of them. The good ones stand out and get passed around. Of course, there’s probably someone in the wilds of Canada reading this right now, shaking their fist at me through their laptop screen and I get that. You feel like you’ll never get a fair shake because you just don’t know the right people. Does it help to be where the action is — the Antifa-ravaged wasteland that was once Hollywood, California? Yeah, it does. But it’s not impossible if you’re not. The hard truth is that most people just aren’t good enough to make the cut. Some never will be. Nobody wants to hear that because it’s easier to blame geography, gatekeepers, or bad luck than to face the fact that your work isn’t at that level. At least not yet and maybe not ever. Like anything else the longer you keep at it, the better you get, and over time your odds can change. Wherever or whoever you are, you still need to do the work. By which I mean write good scripts and make connections and try to be the kind of person that people wanna work with. For now maybe you are you are exactly where you should be and success will come when you're ready for it. Maybe I'm wrong and you have a brilliant screenplay on your hard drive right now that no one has ever laid eyes upon. And you think that if only you could just get that one person to read it you'd be on your way. Chances are you don't, but I bet at least one of you does. And to that person, I say – and this is sincerely from the bottom of my heart: no, I will not read your script.