The Writer for Hire
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By kyle southam in Writing Published: Sunday, 18 February 07 - 09:20 AM (GMT +12:00) |
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When you hire a carpenter to fix your door, you don't expect them to have added a third room to your house, now do you? The same goes for a producer hiring a writer. If they give you guidelines to follow, don't get up on your high horse and try and re-invent the whole story. Do the job you are hired to do and deliver that. Once you have delivered what they have wanted, then you can maybe subtely offer suggestions. If you are a writer for hire and you want to be hired again, don't build that extra room on the house.
I have worked as a writer for hire on screenplays and have done my little bit. It may be pacing or flushing the humor out some, but I have seen a writer take what should be a final polish and add new characters, change the ending and added everything apart from alien takeovers to this romantic comedy. To a producer this is a waste of time, especially for a low budget production where time may be critical. To this producer a week has just been wasted and their shooting script has been held up by some pompous writer who thinks they are God's gift to the writer's guild.
Yes, writer's piss me off just about as much as anyone else.
Thank you,
Kyle
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| Looking for a writer | Aurélien | 07/02/07 |
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Top | Reply to this Title: Looking for a writer Author: AurĂ©lien (http://www.nootouch.com) Date Posted: 02 Jul 2007 11:29 AM (GMT +12:00) Hi, I'm looking for someone able to create green/eco jokes, any idea? Cheers Aurélien |
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