Re: Black List founder Franklin Leonard answers your questions about the Black List
But the operative word (quite literally in this case) is chance, not circumstance.
It wasn't chance that made the person rate that script an 8. It was the fact that the writer wrote a script that the reader responded to. To claim that it's chance does a great disservice to the writer who wrote a script that elicited a reaction in our reader. It suggests that every script written or every script submitted would eventually elicit such a reaction if it just found the right reader. And more importantly, that suggestion is just flat wrong. There are plenty of writers who that have paid for two, three, even seven reads at this point, and never so much as gotten above a rating of five.
I'm sure at this point you're going to counter that it was chance that routed this script to this reader, and sure, on some level, chance dictates every aspect of our lives. But that's a fool's argument, and it doesn't discount the fact that that script moved that reader to that score, which is what we're looking for.
And as for what would have happened if he hadn't bought that second read, well, I'm sure he would have pursued other avenues and may have found success with them. I'm not sure what you could possibly expect us to do to address this possible concern beyond forcing everyone to buy multiple reads to start in order to have more data points. We opted to give writers the power to make their own decisions. I'm happy with that decision.
Originally posted by CthulhuRises
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It wasn't chance that made the person rate that script an 8. It was the fact that the writer wrote a script that the reader responded to. To claim that it's chance does a great disservice to the writer who wrote a script that elicited a reaction in our reader. It suggests that every script written or every script submitted would eventually elicit such a reaction if it just found the right reader. And more importantly, that suggestion is just flat wrong. There are plenty of writers who that have paid for two, three, even seven reads at this point, and never so much as gotten above a rating of five.
I'm sure at this point you're going to counter that it was chance that routed this script to this reader, and sure, on some level, chance dictates every aspect of our lives. But that's a fool's argument, and it doesn't discount the fact that that script moved that reader to that score, which is what we're looking for.
And as for what would have happened if he hadn't bought that second read, well, I'm sure he would have pursued other avenues and may have found success with them. I'm not sure what you could possibly expect us to do to address this possible concern beyond forcing everyone to buy multiple reads to start in order to have more data points. We opted to give writers the power to make their own decisions. I'm happy with that decision.
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