Hi guys,
Back during the first week of March, InkTip's newsletter had a spotlight on a small Christian prodco's current open call. My script almost perfectly fit the bill of that open call. So I replied. The prodco got back to me right away with "Sounds awesome! We'd love to read it! And God Bless!" That was March 11.
Well ... I wanted to re-tweak that script just a tad to increase the comedy factor before sending it to them, and I knew it would be a 2-day rewrite. No biggie, right?
Then I got caught up in a family situation involving my elderly mother and the pressing task of finding an assisted living facility for her. I spent two weeks straight on that endeavor, (on the phone, on the internet, and driving all over Massachusetts to visit and evaluate assisted living facilitites, and then I had to prepare a formal written report for my out-of-state brothers on all my findings) so my script sat.
And then my drivers license needed to get renewed, which turned into a paperwork nightmare because Pennsylvania screwed up my license fifteen years ago and so my files have been lost all this time, so Massachusetts says I do not exist, and they are waiting to hear back from Harrisburg.
And then my mother went into the ER on Tuesday night and was admitted to the hospital on Wednesday morning.
Anyway ... I finally got that script off in the mail ... yesterday, April 3. So that was a delay of three weeks and three days.
If YOU were a creative exec, would you be totally pissed off at this delay? Or would you not even notice it?
And here's another thing: I recall going to their web site back on March 11, and downloading their release form, but then it got lost in my own paperwork mess. So I went back to their web site yesterday to download it again, and the web site seems to be offline. So I just downloaded a generic one from a scriptwriter's how-to web site and sent that instead.
Have I totally screwed myself here?
.
Back during the first week of March, InkTip's newsletter had a spotlight on a small Christian prodco's current open call. My script almost perfectly fit the bill of that open call. So I replied. The prodco got back to me right away with "Sounds awesome! We'd love to read it! And God Bless!" That was March 11.
Well ... I wanted to re-tweak that script just a tad to increase the comedy factor before sending it to them, and I knew it would be a 2-day rewrite. No biggie, right?
Then I got caught up in a family situation involving my elderly mother and the pressing task of finding an assisted living facility for her. I spent two weeks straight on that endeavor, (on the phone, on the internet, and driving all over Massachusetts to visit and evaluate assisted living facilitites, and then I had to prepare a formal written report for my out-of-state brothers on all my findings) so my script sat.
And then my drivers license needed to get renewed, which turned into a paperwork nightmare because Pennsylvania screwed up my license fifteen years ago and so my files have been lost all this time, so Massachusetts says I do not exist, and they are waiting to hear back from Harrisburg.
And then my mother went into the ER on Tuesday night and was admitted to the hospital on Wednesday morning.
Anyway ... I finally got that script off in the mail ... yesterday, April 3. So that was a delay of three weeks and three days.
If YOU were a creative exec, would you be totally pissed off at this delay? Or would you not even notice it?
And here's another thing: I recall going to their web site back on March 11, and downloading their release form, but then it got lost in my own paperwork mess. So I went back to their web site yesterday to download it again, and the web site seems to be offline. So I just downloaded a generic one from a scriptwriter's how-to web site and sent that instead.
Have I totally screwed myself here?
.
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