Re: New Black List Thread - Franklin Leonard answers your questions
+1 for more common sense. And IMO calling for a more vague scoring method is not borne out of improving the service but of ego once again. It sounds better for them to tell people (or even themselves) "it was a pass" as opposed to "it was a 3". A pass is just one step away from a consider - ooh, so close! (That's the illusion anyway) when in reality it could have scored 1 when the cut off for a consider is 8. Not so close now, huh?
The sad thing about all this is the current scoring system, ego-denting as it can be to many, actually, puts things into perspective and is less likely to mislead writers and kid them into continuing to try again, to throw more money away and to keep chasing a career they are just not skilled for. If a writer writes 4 scripts and they all score no higher than a 5 then that is the truth hitting him in the face and if he dismisses this then he's in denial. 4 passes on the other hand - well, you can forgive the guy for thinking he's still in with a shout.
Originally posted by Bitter Script Reader
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The sad thing about all this is the current scoring system, ego-denting as it can be to many, actually, puts things into perspective and is less likely to mislead writers and kid them into continuing to try again, to throw more money away and to keep chasing a career they are just not skilled for. If a writer writes 4 scripts and they all score no higher than a 5 then that is the truth hitting him in the face and if he dismisses this then he's in denial. 4 passes on the other hand - well, you can forgive the guy for thinking he's still in with a shout.
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