Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting... Denied

At least this time I received a hand signed rejection letter, I must be moving up in the world. With two contest failures in as many days it seems yours truly has just solidified his case to go to a development service to figure out exactly what is wrong with "Vengeance."

I suppose it's always hardest to critique your own work, but I have had a lot of people read it and they all seemed to enjoy it. Seemed being the operative, maybe they're all humoring me, but who knows. If any of you would like to read it, please let me know, contact info is over on the right. It seems that this blog is turning into the emo pity party that I so wanted to avoid, but, with rejection comes that little but of sting that your best just isn't good enough.

The letter I received was well written, but the last paragraph kind of struck me as odd, it read "In January of next year, we'll send you a 2008 application form, which will include a list of the recipients of the 2007 Fellowships."

Now that's just kind of rubbing it in the losers faces, they might as well preface the application, "Boy, don't you wish you were these people?" Oh well, out of 5050 entries 254 made it onto the next round, and unfortunately mine wasn't one of them.

All that's left is Scriptapalooza, which I'm investing any stock into, so perhaps on the 15th of August (my next paycheck) I'll send my script off to the $75 development session to figure out exactly what needs to be improved. In the meantime, I think it's time to really put some time into rewriting One Night in Jersey... a broad comedy might be the route to take. We shall see!