screenwiter’s blues

Jesus, man. Shane just keeps getting better and better:

During my ten years in Los Angeles, I have visited the Sunset Strip a handful of times. In my first year here, I was convinced that Hollywood Deals

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  2. Thanks Wil. It always means a great deal to me when you link to something I’ve written, especially when the link is accompanied by such kind words.
    Hey, Shane, when are you going to write a book, man? All the cool kids are doing it!
    As soon as Monolith Press starts publishing other bloggers. 😉

  6. Wil, my good man,
    you’d be quite surprised how close that just hit home with me.
    I first arrived in Hollyweird in 2001, and lived just off Cahuenga and Santa Monica. I did paid audience work and the odd background gig.
    I did as you did, and explored the dark backways of Hollywood, trying to find a better gig, and yes the people are all flakes, liars, backstabbers, cheats and shallow.
    They do always look past you, hoping to see someone more important than them, to leach off, and become a hanger-on.
    As a writer, I always got screwed over by people (can I say Brannon Braga*cough* and some other show writers, who love pilfering ideas they overhear in bars and food places).
    Literary agents always never had time with new faces and wanted established people, which is stupid as if you’re established then you already have agents.
    But anyhow, they were the best of times and they were the worst of times. Mostly the worst.
    So, Wil, your words are like gospel to me, and so I say preach on Brother Wil, and enlighten those less wiser into the pits of Hell that we all call Hollywood.

  7. And thank you Shane for being the enlightened one, when it comes to the depths of depravity in Hollyweird.
    (an adendum to my above post)

  8. Wil dude – you are a real blogger. You also happen to be a celebrity. You’ve eclipsed the negative aspects of being just a “celebrity blogger” long ago, though. You’re also a poker blogger (‘ray!), and a political blogger, and a family/personal blogger – and guess what? That’s what real bloggers do, they write about everything in their sphere of experience. The good ones do it well. Take a bow, man.
    P.S. Didja’ get Darwin his own shades yet?

  9. For what it’s worth, Wil, you’re not a celebrity blogger to me. I started reading your blog because I had heard via word-of-mouth that you wrote interesting, thoughtful, and poignant posts, and that’s what I look for in my daily blog-reading.
    So to me at least, you’re a writer first and foremost.

  10. Blog Blog Blog
    And did you mean, screenwRiter? Or was the “witer” intentional? Like wit from the screen…
    And any business (Movie, TV, is a big business) which deals in Mega-millions is going to be strange and attract the leeches, but not for medicinal purposes.
    Blog Blog Blog

  12. This is completely off topic, but I thought you would like to know if you don’t already.
    I was listening to the latest TWiTcast (the podcast that Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, and some of the old TechTV hosts do now)and Leo was mentioning that he is going on a Geekcruise which is also a Star Trek cruise.
    Anyway, Patrick Norton mentioned that he is a huge fan of you. Just thought you would like to know.

  14. Well, geez since everyone is going off topic, well dammit so must I. Hey Wil…I happened across your interview on SlashDot (thanks to BoingBoing ) And discovered you have a blog…I must ask if you are the very same Wil (Willie) Wheaton credited in the made for TV animated movie (2001) Flintstones on The Rocks? I was one of the Writer/Directors of it and just wanted to know. If so, cool! And also, if so, have you seen it?
    Best,
    Chris Savino

  15. It ain’t just Hollyweird that gets the flakes, cheats, liars, and wannabes. There’s more in common between that place and Wash, D.C. than either side would like to admit.
    and let’s not get started on academic and church politics…
    😉

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