Please forgive this bitchy rant...

Hi gang,

I had a nice talk with Bob after class, and I realize that the things I said to him won't change anything about the class or us as a group. So I am appealing to my teammates in this endeavor.

Three posts to each blog last week was pathetic. It was not productive at all, and let's face it, we have some work to do. Now please don't take this the wrong way. I'm not trying to be high-and-mighty here, and act like I'm any better than anyone else. I will be the first to admit my shortcomings. I let the minimal response affect the effort I put forth, and that disappoints me. So I'm not going to do that anymore. You're going to be hearing from me a TON (sorry if it gets annoying)...

So here's what I really wanted to say: I think this is one of the best classes in theMPT department at AAU, and here's why. How many times have you been given an assignment, but known nothing was ever going to become of it once it was submitted, graded and returned? It's quite understandable why you would not be inspired to put much effort forth, when it felt like just an exercise in a class.

Well this is SO different! We are writing something that is actually definitely going to get made! As writers, one of the best things we can hope for (aside from someone paying us six-figures to write a sctipt, and then having it win an Oscar) is that our movie just gets produced. Imagine the thrill of seeing the characters we conceived, and wrote in black and white actually come to life in full color and three dimensions. I want to promise all twelve of you that any of us will be VERY LUCKY to ever see a script we write get produced professionally. The odds are just overwhelmingly against us.

Well, here we are with a guarantee that our work is going to get produced! I can't believe that each and every one of us is not massively inspired by just that fact alone! Now, add to the mix the fact that we have a professional screenwriter from Hollywood flying up every week to teach us, guide us and encourage us to write some scripts that really are worth the school's money to produce. Let's use Bob as the valuable resource that he is. PLEASE!

For all our sake. Just get writing on this blog. Throw any and all thoughts and ideas down, no matter how small or insignificant they may feel when you conceive them. Don't ever take it personally if your idea seems to get ignored or not used in the end. If we are lucky enough to actually get writing jobs someday, it is something we will experience for the rest of our careers (so why not get used to it now). Think of it this way, an actor auditions for 100 roles to get one. So let's each put 100 ideas out there, so maybe one will actually get used. Right now, we suffer from a severe shortage of input.

Please help me get some momentum going. This project is SO worth it for a million reasons. And don't forget, we each get a chance to write a webisode. And Bob is putting the writer's name on it, where it will stay. So take that credit and run with it. Take other student's ideas from the blog and use them. We can always throw out what we don't want or need. But not having anything to go on (like last week) is just a waste of everyone's time, most importantly Bob. Have any of you ever had to fly 400 miles each way to go to work every week?

Let's show some respect, huh? PLEASE?!?!?

OK, hope you don't all hate me too much. Oh, wait, we're artists, if we care who hates us, we'll never amount to anything! Screw your critics! Just write something!!!