Would You Like Loglines With That?
Episode 128 — Released Jun 11 2021
DISCLAIMER: Yes Shell’s audio is weird! No there wasn’t much that could be done. Yes she’s trapped in a drive thru speaker. Sorry!
How do we keep getting bad story pitch content? (it’s because there’s so many bad story pitches)
Storypitches.com, that’s Story Pitches Dot Com, is a thriving and lucrative WordPress blog where aspiring and lucrative writers can leave a logline teasing their story idea and have it ostensibly put out before some number of viewers for potential optioning into a book, film, or what have you. The first one’s free, but you’ll get so addicted to tossing ideas into the ether that you’ll surely pay for more!
This document is filled with just a sampling of the great lengths to which people will go to not fully write a story and still try to be a writer. But it’s not just wannabe hacks! Some of these hacks are [self-]published and used in school[s][?] Drive on up and run your eyes down the menu of dreary delicacies crafted by dire dilettantes.
This week, Extra Credit writes more, but worse.
With Positive Stress, Chai Tea Latte, Turtle, Frank West, Ironicus, and Shell Game
Edited by Shell Game
Content provided by Dijon Du Jour
Cover art by Shell Game
Subject featured
- https://storypitches.com/
Music used
- Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield
- Hollywood Perfume by Pretenders