Nicholl Fellowship 2012 open for submissions

[JoJo]

Originally Posted by Rhodi

That's a below the belt comment. As Jeff has acknowledged, Aspirant provides some excellent advice for up and coming writers on landing representation and working with managers.

Looks like attention-seeking behavior to me by putting himself forth as an expert when all he does is parrot his rep's advice to him, and then insist that advice applies to all of us and says we're all fools for not believing every word he says.

And how serious is he about a writing career if he spends most of his time here having a pissing contest with Jeff, and not working on his next project?

[JoJo]

Check out the "word cloud" Greg posted on FB. It shows the percentage of genres entered in the Nicholl so far:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150780187762603&set=a.10150780187 717603.463655.247826442602&type=1&theater

[figment]

Originally Posted by JoJo

And how serious is he about a writing career if he spends most of his time here having a pissing contest with Jeff, and not working on his next project?

How serious is Jeff? Pot to kettle.

I'm starting to hate the term "pro" -- its flung around here very often as if it implies all-knowing instead of having individual experiences, which may not be another's experience (pro or not).

[Anagram]

Originally Posted by JoJo

Check out the "word cloud" Greg posted on FB. It shows the percentage of genres entered in the Nicholl so far:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150780187762603&set=a.10150780187 717603.463655.247826442602&type=1&theater

Interesting. I wonder how "Dark" is defined, and how it's different from Horror.

I don't know if this is just me, but is anyone else finding the reader feedback disheartening?

All that goes through my head is, damn, those are some pretty glowing comments. How's my script going to compete?!

But I dont want them to stop, I know it's just a little self-doubt.

Got to sack up.

[iggy]

Re: Wordcloud

Does the Romantic category include romantic comedies and romantic dramas? Are there 2 different genres lumped together there?

Thanks.

[gregbeal]

Originally Posted by iggy

Re: Wordcloud

Does the Romantic category include romantic comedies and romantic dramas? Are there 2 different genres lumped together there?

Thanks.

The Word Cloud was created by my colleague Joan Wai.

A slight misnomer in that it doesn't exclusively display genres. Rather it displays instances of the 21 genre words that appear in the Nicholl application's primary and secondary genre fields.

Thus "romantic" and "dark" are modifiers associated with a primary genre selected by the entrant, most often comedy or drama.

The Word Cloud is a representation of the number of times each of the 21 genre words was selected by entrants.

Perhaps I'll ask her to produce a cloud that only displays the ten primary genres. I know she's planning to produce a cloud displaying Nicholl-winning script genres.

[gregbeal]

Originally Posted by Anagram

I don't know if this is just me, but is anyone else finding the reader feedback disheartening?

All that goes through my head is, damn, those are some pretty glowing comments. How's my script going to compete?!

But I dont want them to stop, I know it's just a little self-doubt.

Got to sack up.

Sorry about that - except someone somewhere is going to have to react to your script in similar fashion if you expect to move forward with your career. And then another person and another . . .

[Anagram]

Originally Posted by gregbeal

Sorry about that - except someone somewhere is going to have to react to your script in similar fashion if you expect to move forward with your career. And then another person and another . . .

Hehe no need to apologize, I'm just venting a little stress.

[JoJo]

I think I checked "dark" as a modifier. I can see how these sub-genres could be interpreted differently by each entrant. I meant "dark" as in noir - I define noir as bad things happening to bad people and there ain't no happy ending.

Dark could mean something different to someone else.

[JoJo]

Originally Posted by Anagram

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I don't know if this is just me, but is anyone else finding the reader feedback disheartening?

No, I find them insightful: a window into the screening process in this initial round. It also indicates what a mixed bag of entries there are - lots of diversity in the scripts that got positive comments - it could be anyone's to win!