Why you Should Learn to Love the Logline
screenplays through the Embryo films website. But a funny thing happened.
We got inundated.
And when I say inundated, I don’t mean we were swamped with hundreds of thousands of screenplays. No. There just aren’t that many people in Australia writing screenplays. We were inundated with about a hundred and fifty.
But, being a writer myself (and knowing how much effort you put into it), I didn’t want to just reject screenplays out of hand. So I made a policy of reading everything that came in — or at least of giving it a genuinely “fair go”.
After about a month, I was so hopelessly behind, that I would never catch up. They were coming in faster than I could keep up. Within six months, I was sure I was being voodoo cursed by a couple hundred writers out there.
See, it takes about an hour