one mooooore thing…



This is actually very humorous I think, it seems Nicholl letters went out this week, and since I’m sorta bad about checking my mail, I didn’t know until someone mentioned it on a board, so I check my mail and find this:

Yep, rejection, in an particularly gruesome fashion, if I do say so myself. I’m not really upset, because I knew Stainless was particularly flawed when I mailed it, super out of date since I started it in 99 and since that time CSI has killed the genre. But most of all I entered cause I felt rather obligated because I haven’t entered any real screenwriting comps that aren’t local. Can’t be much of a writer without competition, eh? Really, though I know it’s not all that good, so it did what I wanted it to do.

BUT, one wonders what about the script was so bad that Greg Beal reacted like that? I mean, half a letter? How many folks get that kind of smackdown? Maybe it was the JFK line- some people don’t like it:

JUDE
Hard to tell, no skin left to pull residue, but it’s fairly clean, definitely not blunt. I ran the track and there’s no trace left. He’d been in the mud for a while.

REYNOLDS
Exit?

JUDE
Look for yourself.

Reynolds eyes Jude warily for a moment before slipping his hands under the base of the corpse’s neck and lifting–

–exposing a caved-in mess of liquid tissue, which spills out of the head onto the table. Reynolds drops the head in surprise, causing a bit of the soup to splash in his direction.

REYNOLDS
Shit!

JUDE
Rumor has it, JFK’s head was like that.

Reynolds stiffly brushes at his clothing.

REYNOLDS
Yeah. Sorry.

JUDE
He was a goner long before you arrived.

So I guess the lesson here is don’t crack on JFK, even in a study of morbidity. Sorry about that Greg and readers, I’ll avoid it in the future.