Bragging Writes
(I promise I will stop titling posts with awful, awful puns.)
All blogs are paeans to narcissism, and mine is no exception. The Stupid Blogger has opened me up to a galaxy of wannabes and hangers-on clinging to the blogs of moderately successful screenwriters, and I’ve noticed that many of these (including Stupid’s) include a little sidebar hawt CSS action documenting their progress on current projects. I elected to do what any screenwriter would do: I stole it because I thought I could make it better.
I noticed all of these blogs, without exception, ape some code they most likely found here, considering the dimensions and margins are exactly the same (the only difference are the colors). Though it’s helpful and I also stole my code from this blog, I decided to modify it to make it look a little classier (at least, I think it’s a little classier — fuck off if you disagree).
Though I don’t wish to remain fully anonymous (once somebody stumbles across this blog, they can unravel my terrible secrets with ease), I do wish to remain as difficult to Google as possible. As such, I’ll be giving each project outdated working titles instead of the actual, current titles. I know from my own dorky reader experience that if I read a script and wanted to know more about the writer, I’d pop their name and/or e-mail address into Google. If that yielded no results, I’d punch in “[Title] screenplay,” just to see if anything popped up. It only did once, but that’s beside the point: it’s possible. I wouldn’t be thrilled if the Big-Shot Producer or someone from his company Googled “[Dying Proof’s real title] screenplay” and ended up here, where I’ve written moderately hostile things about him.
That long explanation is my way of saying, “That’s why one script shares its title with a Juliana Hatfield song, and the novel is the title of the fictional town in which it takes place.” The war script is so new, I don’t even have an outdated fake title for it. I try to give my material more attention-grabbing titles by the time my work is worth seeing by people who aren’t me and the sad group of Chosen Ones who read my early drafts and send thoughtful comments such as, “Comma splice!” and “Please stop sending me this shit!”
On a slightly less narcissistic note, I felt like I should probably add progress bars like these since I’ll be rambling about these projects more often.
Edit 3/29/08 — Since this is about adding random, unnecessary shit to my blog, I should add that I’ve finally added functional, threaded comments to Stan Has Issues™ — enjoy!
Posted by Stan on March 28, 2008 4:34 PM | Permalink | Print-Friendly | Random Musings | Digg It
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