2:23 PM Daniel: i thought about your career
and i decided something for you
me: oh yeah? everybody's getting laid off this month
Daniel: u should write
TV pilots
2:24 PM tv dramas are always just about characters
just write dialogue
thats it
i was reading about josh shwartz
and he was at USC
as an undergrad
and he wrote a script for a class
and it won an award
and he wrote a pilot
and sent it out
and it got bought
for like 500,000
and he wrote another one
me: did it get turned into the oc?!
Daniel: and it got bought too
no
2:25 PM they got turned into nothing!
they were just pilots!
and he made a million dollars just by that
all u have to do is write about the characters
like what they are like
and write one episode
and it gets bought!
thats crazy!
and then he wrote the OC
and it doesnt even seem like anything!
its very cliched and derivative
i feel like i could have wrote the OC
me: yeah but you liked it, right?
Daniel: he wrote it in college rebecca
2:26 PM stop procrastinating
and then he wrote gossip girl
its about nothing!
me: yeah but it's so awesome for some reason
Daniel: u dont even need to know about anything
like to write a medical show u need to know medical stuff
or historical fiction u gotta research that
or sci-fi
me: yeah, procedurals are so boring
Daniel: gotta research
but this
u just write about stuff!!
its easy!
u have to do it
2:27 PM like pilots get made all the time
and they dont get picked up
u get paid no matter what
2:28 PM they buy the script from u
and u get paid
doesnt matter if its successful or nto
and if it is successful
then they want more scripts from u!
and u get paid to read other scripts
and to rewrite them
or doctor them
me: ahhhhh that would be my dream job
i would actually rather write for tv than movies
Daniel: kevin smith got paid like 5 million to revise the superman script
and that was back when he was a nobody
after he did chasing amy
me: okay i would TOTALLY take that
Daniel: and they never even used his script
2:29 PM me: 5 million, really? that's a ridiculous amount
Daniel: nicholas cage got paid 20 million for that movie
and it never got made
so did tim burton
for superman lives
it was pay or play or something
me: oh yeah, thank goodness that didn't get maid
Daniel: they get paid regardless of if the movie got made
me: made, yikes
2:32 PM Daniel: yea i was thinking
wow ur a dummy
anyways
seriously rebecca
write pilots
me: agh you're right
Daniel: u can do one about all your ideas
i know u have so many
asian high school student
dealing with the pressures of the model minority
coming out of her shell
boys
drugs
drinking
me: hahaha, no one wants that stuff
Daniel: the pressuers of that
me: SOOOOO cliche
Daniel: and with the pressures of family obligations
2:33 PM how to balance both
rebecca
its cliche
but
i bet it sells a pilot!
its like my so called life
me: i would rather write felicity! i've never seen my so called life
actually i realized that i kind of want to be jj abrams
Daniel: they made all-american girl
it got picked up
me: he went from felicity to alias to lost to STAR TREK
Daniel: rebecca u arent jj abrams
no
2:34 PM me: i'm no margaret cho!
Daniel: NO
do you see the trash that gets picked up on tv?
i mean
me: yeah, a lot of it sucks
like smallville
Daniel: even abc family
u could write a show for abc family
me: actually i love abc family
Daniel: i bet they would pick up your asian girl show
me: greek.... i wish i could do a show like greek!
Daniel: rebeecca
stop being crazy
me: do you think they'll pick up my college show?
Daniel: ok fine colelge
me: i have a pilot that is like felicity + politics
2:35 PM Daniel: REBECCA!
gosh ur so dumb
felicity + politics?
whos your audience???
middle aged lesbians?
me: ummm, smart political young people?
hahahaahahahahaha
Daniel: REBECCA
how many smart political young ppl are there
me: who watch abc family?
Daniel: you wont even sell that script let alone get a pilot made
MIDDLE AMERICA
write a pilot about teen angst
u need to get the teens aboard
2:37 PM me: it's so cliche!
Daniel: REBECCA
me: plus, that doesn't work: look at that model show with mischa barton that got cancelled right away
Daniel: jeez you're so dumb!
me: on the other hand, one tree hill still exists
Daniel: who cares!
it sold!
dawson's creek was a big hit when it came out
so was the OC
they were huge
write one about an asian girl
asians are big right now
think of all the plot lines
2:38 PM parents dont approve of her white boyfriend
he rides a motorcycle
he drops out of high school
but hes secretly really smart
but doesnt believe in himself
me: omg a monkey robot could write that!
Daniel: she helps him
shse conflicted because her parents dont like him
she runs outside to him in the rain
thats a nielson 3 right there
2:39 PM me: man... maybe you should write it
how do you know those nielsen terms?
2:40 PM Daniel: rebecca i cant write it
im not a writer like u
im an idea man
in the very first episode
she just moved to texas
or something
from LA
omg thats perfect
and u can have LA flashbacks
bring in asians
me: that's like the opposite of 90210
Daniel: that will bring in the asian demographic
2:41 PM her hip LA life
and then her life in texas
senior year of high school
and then her ex bf comes visit her
and he fights her new bf
who wears flannel
and has a motorcycle
like chad michael murray
its perfect
so many plotlines!
me: aaaccckkk
Daniel: she can be fashionable if u want
she doesnt have to be geeky
2:42 PM me: actually i had a very similar but opposite idea for a movie
Daniel: and then end of 1st season
she starts doing presecription drugs
to study
and her biker bf saves her
me: like a satire of azn culture, these two asian twins move from wisconsin to california
Daniel: and thats how the parents start begrudgingly liking him
REBECCA
me: NO JESSIE SPANO moments!
Daniel: stop being such a hater
ur such an azn hater
stop trying to write satires of it
and critiques
and criticisms
u want to make money
and be a millionaire
USE IT
2:43 PM leverage it!
dont try to marginalize it!
you are lucky most azns are too dumb to have done this already
its golden
all u need is 1 pilot
me: who's an azn hater now?
Daniel: and a synopsis of what happens the first season
and sell the script
me: how do you know this stuff?
Daniel: thats 3 years of your salary right there
2:44 PM me: yeah, that would be nice... buy me some time...
Daniel: serious
just sell out first
2:45 PM and then work on your "artistic" endeavors
just write some trashy drivel
just do it rebecca gosh
ur 28
me: ugh, i know
Daniel: noones going to be talking about some 35 year old writer who just wrote some teenage script
they want like that girl that wrote devil wears prada
some young gun
writing about her experiences
your clock is ticking
2:46 PM get with it
jeez
u live in new york
how are you such a puddle of goo
just think of a show that would be a guilty pleasure for you
and think
what would happen at the end of that show
what would NEED to happen
so that i am forced to watch next week
and just write it!
jeez
2:47 PM fill it in with some cheesy dialogue
me: you make it sound so do-able!
2:48 PM Daniel: IT IS
was the OC that special?
i mean
i seriously think i could have written that
me: i don't know, i don't remember the pilot
Daniel: who cares
its like a copy of every other show
dont try to write a veronica mars
or a glee
cuz you'll never finish
2:49 PM write something that you can finish!
jeez!
me: okokok... but AFTER i sell out i can try to write a west wing!
Daniel: ugh
whatever
ur so lame
the lamest person in new york
2:50 PM me: it keeps me humble!
Daniel: whatever u lamer
bye
im getting lunch
me: ok thanks for the "pep" talk
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