[Writingworkshop] so guys, i got this thing i really need some feedback on......

[Daniel Peters]

literally finished sending that last reply and went over to Hacker News to
do waste some time and the first article in the queue, this is the link to
the comments, you might get a kick out of it.


http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=818488

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Daniel Peters <danieltpeters at gmail.com>wrote:

> the funny part for me is that I saw a History of violence and.....i think
> it fucking blew.  Bad.  It could be the lead, or it could also be that it
> struck me as horribly cliched and unoriginal.  I love that you reacted to
> this piece this way man, I look up to you alot as a writer and my first
> reaction to this piece was in some sense similar, he sounds like such a self
> satisfied douchebag.  Sold me on the "please don't waste my fucking time"
> bit though.
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Neale Morison <neale at nealemorison.com>wrote:
>
>>  I was momentarily heartened by his suggestion that you have to know that
>> craft of writing to succeed, even with a synopsis, in screenwriting. There
>> was a little moment of thinking that maybe I had some slight advantage
>> there. But then I realized that it isn't true.
>> One of the funniest screenwriting gags I ever saw was the extended Cleaver
>> scenario in The Sopranos. I thought Cleaver pretty mPuch covered the ground.
>>
>>
>> Daniel Peters wrote:
>>
>>
>> http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/09/i_will_not_read.php
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