Thursday, July 19, 2012

Parody of a Screenplay

An amusing satire of the far too many people these days who write books that are meant to be made into movies.There’s an old expression, “If you can’t beat them, join them”.It never much appealed to me. Sounds a wee bit too compromising. Some, perhaps, may consider this a shortcoming of mine, but I’ve never been particularly conciliatory by nature. I’m competitive. A nasty word these days, but there it is. I enjoy beating them, whoever ‘them’ are. And if, after putting forth my best effort, it becomes obvious that beating them is not in the cards then I simply fold my hand and walk away from the table.Joining them has always been out of the question. Recently, however, a certain dilemma has presented itself wherein it seems to me that the only way to beat them is to join them. For a long time now I have been growing more and more exasperated with the publishing business’s bias in favor of books that demonstrate a potential for being made into movies. I don’t write t..

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