"There are three groups of people in Hollywood..."

From GITS/The Black List:

"There are three groups of people in Hollywood:

Group 1: People who know nothing or next to nothing about story.

Group 2: People who can tell you what’s wrong with a story, but don’t know how to solve its problems.

Group 3: People who not only can determine what’s wrong with a story, they can fix it.

Guess which group a writer wants to be in."

Read more at:

http://gointothestory.blcklst.com/2012/06/the-business-of-screenwriting-there-are-three-groups-of-people-in-hollywood-2.html

the group that makes all those Asylum films?

Group 4: People who dress as super heroes and hang out in front of the Chinese Theater.

Group 5: People who clean public toilets in all the heavy industry customer hotspots and leave their:
loglines posted on a yellow postie in front of the urinals
synopsis posted on the inside door of each stall
script written on toilet paper -- 3 uses: make them cry with tears of laughter or tears of joy, or well, you know wipe :(

Group 3: People who not only can determine what’s wrong with a story, they can fix it.

There are three scripts on the Consider list that have interesting concepts, and could earn ten thousand dollars for the writers with a simple rewrite.

Knowing how to fix a story... that's what we should be discussing.

Creating escalating conflict in Act Two... that's good.

But finding something original, that doesn't mimic a dozen other movies previously made... finding a concept that people actually want to see, instead of just a different way to kill people... finding the humanity in a character so we relate to him...

all worth discussing.

Well, Lisa I'm not sexist. I leave my post-its over the urinals.....and the broken tampon dispensers.

DD -- you must be going to the wrong bathrooms. they don't have tampon dispensers in the posh Beverly Hills restrooms. they have baskets next to the sinks and mirrors (where you should leave your postit note logline) full of everything a woman needs to stay fresh. so, next time if you see a dispenser just leave.

damn, I knew I was doing something wrong. Spray painting my e-mail address on small dogs with expensive collars hasn't panned out either.

So that's what happened to my mother's dpg.

Stoners, Jocks and Geeks. Oh wait ... I am thinking of high school.

The red-neck high school I went to (Northern California) had a "Cowboy Corral"

Heterosexual, homosexuals, and movie stars

I guess the truth hurts :)

DD -- yep! spray paint is cheap. you should be using fingernail polish. that's so classy!