At…long…last I reached the halfway mark on Oriana’s edits. Yay!<\/p>\n
Never have I struggled so much with revisions. Line edits have proven incredibly painful for two reasons:<\/p>\n
1) Her corrections are right on the money. Every time I start doubting the red pen, I read the before and after version aloud. Oriana: 841. Me: 5.<\/p>\n
2) Where she misses the mark–this is rare–she’s close enough that I yield. Begrudgingly. When I make some bank doing this, I’ll call more of the shots.<\/p>\n
Hope to finish all line edits on The Last Track<\/em> by June 18th, which is the point full on active querying resumes–if necessary. In her infinite kindness, Oriana offered a second pass, probably very granular touch ups.<\/p>\n My check for the Nicholl’s competition cleared, so it’s a good bet my entry reached them in time. In six weeks they announce semi-finalists, which is a good turnaround for judges who consider 5,000 screenplays. By the way, the only contest I would consider entering that has a fee is Nicholl’s, because no other competition offers such a generous prize ( $30,000 ), publicity and a chance for five pitch meetings with studio executives. A review of the last ten year’s winners reveals that within two to three years of taking home the gold, nearly the entire winner’s circle are full-time screenwriters. Therefore, there is a direct and tangible benefit of winning the contest.<\/p>\n And a chance like that is worth a few bucks on the front end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At…long…last I reached the halfway mark on Oriana’s edits. Yay! Never have I struggled so much with revisions. Line edits have proven incredibly painful for two reasons: 1) Her corrections are right on the money. Every time I start doubting the red pen, I read the before and after version aloud. Oriana: 841. Me: 5. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}