Ashley, I just read your blog and wanted you to know I had a similar experience. I am 2009 semi. I got the same three emails and wrote to Greg Beal for an accounting. It’s a monumental screw-up that slammed 84 other semi-finalists. First of all, they’re not the most gracious folks over there… except …
Category Archive: nicholl fellowship
Oct 05 2009
First Act: Complete
First acts are probably the easiest. And I write short anyway. This one clocks in at exactly 22 pages, written in just over a week. 9 days coming out to over 2 pages a day, though that’s certainly not how it was written. 12 last weekend, 10 this weekend. Nothing like my 15 page a …
Oct 02 2009
Nicholl: Another Apology for the False Congrats
Hi Ashley, As many of you already are well aware, we sent two e-mails to you this morning. The first was a regret e-mail telling you that you did not advance to the Nicholl finals. Sadly, that was the correct e-mail. We’re not sure why our e-mail data base system decided to add your group …
Oct 02 2009
Nicholl: The Email I Received In Error
Hi Ashley, Congratulations again on reaching the Nicholl finals. IAll of you have now been contacted, and regret letter e-mails have been sent to the semifinalists. Sorry that went a little slower than I had hoped. So you are free to tell anyone and everyone about your Nicholl finalist status. The Academy Press Release announcing …
Oct 02 2009
Nicholl: Not a Finalist
Dear Ashley, With the judging complete, sadly, I must report some bad news: Bible Con did not advance into the Final Round of the 2009 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition. Having read a number of the semifinal scripts, I know that some outstanding work has not progressed. Throughout this industry, at studios, production companies and …
Sep 30 2009
Setting self up for Disappointment: Nicholl
When Finalists were announced: October 13, 2008 October 6, 2006 October 21, 2005 October 15, 2004 They said early October, but most of those look mid-October. Eek. Can’t find any more dates than those 4. Q: What are the prizes? A: Up to five $30,000 fellowships are awarded to new screenwriters each year. From 1986 …
Sep 28 2009
Busy Weekend; Bad day for a Migraine
Friday was crazy. I got asked to write a pilot by a web producer, to write a polished first act of a feature for a manager, to edit a short, to add something to a reel, and that it’s possible that I will be promoted to Assistant Editor in January and that I will be …
Sep 26 2009
Lots of Twitter Visitors
Where are they coming from? I obsess over the stats on this blog way too much. Probably human nature. In other news, I went to the best restaurant, Panda Inn in Pasadena. Yum. Go Into the Story’s Scott Myers answers a question I asked about how to turn a contest placement into an agent.
Sep 25 2009
A real person read my script
We’ll call these people S and T. S is a manager/producer type, T is S’s assistant. F, my creative partner, has a connection with S, in that she really loved Prombies!, the short he and I made that was about erections turning boys into zombies, and she has been in touch with him a couple …
Sep 23 2009
Inktip Update; Logline published in Newsletter
I just received an e-mail from Inktip that impressed me quite a bit, mostly because I’m always surprised that there are people making sure the website is running the way it should. Subject: Regarding ‘Bible Con’ Dear Ashley, Your script was chosen to be published in yesterday’s industry newsletter, along with six other loglines. This …
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Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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