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Your F*cking Anything…
It seems there was a bit of a rumpus this week surrounding what should be done for free or not.
Looks like it started when Oscar nominated screenwriterJosh Olsin (“History of Violence”), threw down a tiny gauntlet with the following rant:
Apparently this created a whole new cottage industry for what folks will not “fucking do”.
SeeMark Lisanti’s response over at Movieline :
Now, I actually found all this funny. Especially the part about picking out headshots (everybody hates that).
I was all ready to add my own tiny rant, “NO, I will not look at your fucking edit!” and then I came across this…
ViaJoseph Epstein over at Incharacter.org in his post “Blood, Sweat, and Words” .
Yeah. I’d probably say I find writing tough. And I’d probably agree it’s sometimes a burden to “have” to read someone else’s work. And I promise you it’s equally a burden to look at someone’s edit of their project and give them “notes”.
But after a week where we all had tolisten to this…
I’d have to agree with Joseph Epstein:
Or… just keep your cakehole closed.