Nick Walsh: Screenwriter in West Des Moines, Iowa.

Hi, Everybody!

I received this post after placing my screenplay on InkTip: "Although we believe you have good intentions by writing this script, we felt upon reading it that the script needs a BIPOC sensitivity reader to provide detailed coverage. InkTip reserves the right to remove any listing." I didn't know that. I thought it was the producer's role--that I've subscribed to InkTip to connect with--to accept or pass on this script, no matter the content or how well written, not the the decision of the site I'm paying over thirty dollars a month to post my screenplays. [NOTE: Stage32 doesn't do this.]

This script is a graphic satire on racism. It is a tragi-comedy, and it is meant to elevate our awareness of racism in an exaggerated (maybe not), sometimes horrifying, but elucidating way.

The script is on this site under Loglines in my Profile if anybody would like to read it and give me your take on it.

Thank you,

Nick Walsh

I’m writing the Slugline:

INT. SNOW LODGE - KITCHEN - DAY

The next scene is the same location, just later. Which slugline is correct:

INT. SNOW LODGE - KITCHEN - DAY - LATER

OR

INT. SNOW LODGE - KITCHEN - LATER

Thank you in advance.

I wrote my first screenplay over 20 years ago referencing Sydney Field's screenwriting book and it won 2nd Place Runner-up at the Austin Film Festival. I didn’t write another until I retired from the construction business eight years ago. I attended ScreenwritingU and got my Master Screenwriter Certificate and have since written three more features, all of which have placed in contests. My latest, a TV Pilot, was a finalist in ISA’s ScreenCraft TV Pilot 2021 contest and was one of five finalists in the 2022 Page International TV Pilot contest. I am now looking for the right literary manager to introduce them to the market..

I am an inventor and problem solver by nature, looking at things with an inquisitive mine, always playing with ways to make them better—that goes for my scripts, too. I am also an open-minded negotiator. True story: I once prevented a murder by convincing a Mafia hitman I befriended not to kill his ex-wife’s lover. Through my intercession, by the end of the night, all tension was gone and they became friends. My life’s experiences and dealing with a range of personalities inform me when I create unique characters.

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