So because this week wasn't sucking enough already, I got my notification from SN that my Angel spec did not make the finals.

Yes, yes. Always a semifinalist, never a finalist.

ETA: And this post makes me sound more upset than I actually am. Because I'm sort of resigned to it all by now. Final nail in the scriptwriter career coffin, you know.

Oh, shit, Kristen. I bet it's better than the finalists, by rather a lot, too.

And yes, the week, so far, she is suckola de maximus.

Oh thanks. I still love my spec a lot. And hey, if it's the last script I ever write, it was a nice note to go out on. A sort of little love letter to my hometown.

Does it have to be the last script you write?

I don't know the background, but, well - does it?

Eh. It doesn't have to be. I mean, it's not like someone's gonna try and break my fingers if I sat down to write. But, yeah, it probably is the last one.

I haven't had the drive to write a script in...oh...close to two years now. Right around the time that I came to the realization that I didn't have the personality to make it as a screenwriter. Then I lost my job and ended up completely out of the industry. So even if I suddenly had the desire to write a dozen specs, I don't have any contacts in the TV world to show them to.

I wouldn't go as far as to say that I regret the attempt to break into the business but I would say it wasn't one of my smarter ideas. *snerk*

Are you set, completely, on screenwriting? Why not fiction, or drama?

I'm not sure if that question is dumbassed, or out of line. It's just that as a writer, I hate seeing other writers not get their shot, especially if the stuff is good.

Oh I suck at writing narrative. I could drown you in dialogue but ask me to write a descriptive paragraph and I'm like a deer in headlights. That's how I ended up in screenwriting. Because if I wanted Jane to pick up a pencil, all I had to say was, "Jane picks up a pencil."

Sadly, "Jane picks up a pencil," makes for a very boring read.

Sadly, "Jane picks up a pencil," makes for a very boring read.

In fiction, possibly so. But in drama? Playwright in the making, perhaps? Or does that particular journey not feel right?

Or comic books -- the pencil details are completely someone else's problem.

Hey, if Mister Ayelet Waldman can write the next Spiderman movie script? I am damned if I see why our own Ms. K can't collaborate with a drawing type person and craft a whole new comics gestalt.

I mean, I wish to hell somebody would. Someone who is not male, or eighteen, or in love with Laura Croft.