Good morning, fellow artists! Welcome to another exciting edition of my weekly Hollywood blog. I recently mentioned that I started bringing my rugby feature film script to my career administration meetings so that my partner could read it out loud, 10 pages at a time. I felt excited and nervous when he was about to read the first ten pages on September 22nd. I felt giddy when he read certain bits of dialogue that resonated so beautifully and powerfully. I also remember those moments when I tilted my head to the side whenever something didn’t click or make sense. Armed with questions I created for him, he provided valuable and exciting feedback after each reading. And this past Monday, he finished reading act one!
As a writer, these feelings never grow old, nor do they ever disappear whenever talented actors read my words for the first time. I mean, can you blame me? The writing process consumes me. I put my all into my writing (as well as other forms of artistic expression, like acting). Writing is incredibly vulnerable and personal, and I’m honored and privileged to have trusted artists with whom I can share my work. Keep reading below 🙂
AND…LOL…having readings of your script is so important because that’s where you discover mistakes! Whether it’s a typo, grammatical, or formatting error, readers help to find those mistakes because they read the words with a fresh pair of eyes. Case in point, when my admin partner read through the rest of act one over Zoom and got to the part where the protagonist tries out for the rugby team, the script says that he performs a “Hick Kick” drill. LOL.LOL. LOL. As soon as the words came out of my admin partner’s mouth, I tilted my head to the side and silently questioned if that was a legitimate rugby drill. Yes! It had to be! I wrote it! He then stopped and asked, “Is that high kick catching?” I responded with, “Yeah, that should be high kick catching.” We laughed, and I immediately fixed the error in the script. He quickly added, “The other reason that it’s good to read through these…high kick catching…we’re not kicking any hicks here.” We laughed again. Keep reading below 🙂
Have you ever found hilarious mistakes in your writing? If so, leave me a comment below. See you next week!
Chasing The George 