In polishing my first four pages of a new script, I found a typo that made me laugh out loud in this dialogue. Do you see it? It's a wrong word... which is spelled right. Took 4-5 editing passes to notice it.
Screenwriting : Editing - typo blooper - a doozy of a whoopsie by Brian Shell
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“new” should be “no”, correct ? :)
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That's a bingo! - Well done Chantel... good eye... a slightly different meaning, eh?
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I find that when I read my script in PDF I find so many mistakes that I don't catch when reading in Final Draft.
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Yes Brian, new alcohol—the old alcohol or drugs just didn’t do the job!!! Lol
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Christine, I too cannot believe how many mistakes I find after proofreading in Final Draft and then saving the pdf...frustrating to spend so much time combing through scenes and dialogue only to find more stuff you missed. :/
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Chantel totally frustrating! I can't believe how many mistakes I find.
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Chaun Lee Yeah, I tried servin' up some old drugs to the children -- like Atari 2600 and ColecoVision -- and those kids kicked sand in my face and called me names like Digital Dinosaur Dude Ex
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Lolololol, Brian Shell, Atari was the best!!! What do they know? We’ll build sand castles with their sand. :)
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Yeah Chantel, Atari 2600 was Dope. And... If they kick sand, build sand castles - luv it!
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hahaha I read it and said "hold up, what?" lol Because you told us there was an error chances are we'd find it. I definitely had a good laugh there. That would have thrown readers for a loop had you not noticed it haha
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Finding mistakes in drafts.
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I get my PC to read to me. Then my long suffering wife. I don’t trust the damaged brain.
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Not only long-suffering, your wife’s a saint, Craig!
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R.D Francis Intellivision??? That's raising da stakes like an I triple dog dare ya!
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The thing that's really funny about this typo is that children are the ones who will serve the homeless... all of whom are homeless, in part, due to alcohol and drug addiction.
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Chaun Lee Yep. I can walk into a room with some mad idea and she just smiles and says "You should give that a go". She helps me with whatever is happening and is a source of many great stories.
She is was a federal agent for many years. She joined straight from school at the age of 17 as an office clerk and worked her way up to leading a field team. Small lady with a bucket load of punch.
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That’s awesome Craig, truly awesome. Not too many creative people have someone so supportive and willing to participate in the journey. Sweet. :)
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I was told the other day that we no longer use the term 'homeless people'; now they're referred to as the 'unhoused'. I guess that's politically correct now and it must make 'em feel better. Have we gone nutz, or what?
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Well as long as those drugs are new, they should be okay!
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I agree Cumberlain.
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I heard a story about a Hollywood producer who slept in his Rolls Royce to keep up images and perception. Houseless not homeless... as everyone has a Home from where they came. Unhoused and unhinged
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This past Friday, I hung out with rocker Chip Z'Nuff from E'Nuff Z'Nuff - their song "Get High on a New Thing" now suddenly becomes funnier after finding this typo.
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New alcohol is the new thing—ha! Funny.
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In 1979, in Bucksnort, Tennessee, Mom bought a pop-top 6-pack of J.R. Beer (from Dallas and JR Ewing). In 2009, I drank 'em. Tasted like a port wine. Still got me toasted though.
In 1997 in Seattle, I spoke with a homeless woman who cried, "I fear I've become the worm at the bottom of the tequila bottle who dreams of being a butterfly." - sobering.
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Thanks Erik.. just finished watching the KOMO documentary. Lotsa memories from '97. The whole point is that I'm writing a low budget horror script, and homeless are the group who will face the monster in the house.. via an intervention... to be medical guinea pigs for a new technology
Dan Guardino Great suggestion Dan!! The scene has a few jokes after that dialogue, and I've been laughing too hard when I tell it to others here near Ann Arbor... will add it in.
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Ah Haha!
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R.D. Francis I see your Magnavox Odyssey and raise you a Commodore 64. And I still have one sitting in my garage...alive and well.
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You new instead of no.
Isn't the Commodore 64 keyboard used in John Wick 2... when the lady is typing up the bounty document? James Pappoe Jr I raise you Pong sir.
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Haha!! Yeah, Brian that's too much for my blood. Gonna have to fold on that one, haha!
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And yes it was a C64 they used. I guess it would be hard for the government to hack into an old 8-bit system.
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James Pappoe Jr Pong was my double dog dare ya - the jokers in my backpocket were DOS, COBOL, BASIC and FORTRAN... and endless feedback if-then looping. Oy!