I dig Girl on Girl Action (girlongirlaction.wordpress.com)

So here is the not-ridiculous part of the post: I have been thinking back on this past year of pseudo-career as a young pseudo-screenwriter. I mean, I kind of am a screenwriter in the sense that I have been able to con Manager Guy and Agent Guy into representing me, and I have specs, and I go on a lot of meetings, and people in those meetings seem to think that I am a Real Writer, and like sometimes the assistant will be all “Elana?!? Oh man, it’s so good to meet you, I loved your sample!” – which makes me think that they don’t realize that I am just some chump off the street or whatever.

BASICALLY: I am a screenwriter, but only in the sense that I am expected to function as though I am one, with the writing and the meetings and the being available all the time and the pitching, etc etc. Of course I am totally clear on the fact that nobody is paying me, so it’s not like I’m a REAL screenwriter. You know? It’s just like I have this weird full-time job I don’t actually make any money doing.

I have a couple of friends who are in this same place, and I was talking to them recently about what’s going on. We all had many of the same comments. So I thought I would write them down and post them on the internets and maybe someday in the future some young baby writer will happen on them and find them useful.

via girlongirlaction.wordpress.com

(Come on, if Elana can make that joke, I can rip it off.)

So I'm probably late to the party and Elana Frick's blog has already been bookmarked by everyone who's anyone, but I stumbled over it this afternoon for the first time and am a big fan. If you haven't, you should check it out, not just because she's got several great posts on how she almost died a month or so ago (seriously) but also because she's in a stage of her writing career that's all too common and writes about it winningly (and humorously, and candidly, and self-effacingly, and so on).  I dig her voice.  And the name of her blog.

Go read it. Right now.

Comments

[M]

She's a downer. Wow...

[scoggins]

I know, right?
It's been one complaint after another, ever since she died.