Re: Should we all be writing books instead?
Is a screenplay a finished product? Of course. If it weren't, the copyright office wouldn't let me register it, and Amazon and other places wouldn't let me publish mine as Kindle eBooks.
And don't forget that the goal of pretty well every novelist is to see his/her work eventually as a film:
"Whoops! Where's the screenplay!?"
So whose product is more complete than the other?
Well, I won't get into that argument. Both are. From the foregoing, we might think a film is the most complete, but you'd get plenty of debate there, too.
As for film awards, most notably the Oscars, I barely care who wins the best Adapted Screenplay, but one of my favorites is the one for Best Original Screenplay. That's spec screenplay, to you and me.
Is a screenplay a finished product? Of course. If it weren't, the copyright office wouldn't let me register it, and Amazon and other places wouldn't let me publish mine as Kindle eBooks.
And don't forget that the goal of pretty well every novelist is to see his/her work eventually as a film:
"Whoops! Where's the screenplay!?"
So whose product is more complete than the other?
Well, I won't get into that argument. Both are. From the foregoing, we might think a film is the most complete, but you'd get plenty of debate there, too.
As for film awards, most notably the Oscars, I barely care who wins the best Adapted Screenplay, but one of my favorites is the one for Best Original Screenplay. That's spec screenplay, to you and me.
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