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- From: johnh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (John J Humpal)
- Subject: Re: screenwriters
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.161430.10261@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
- Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
- References: <1992Jul15.105458.13833@husc3.harvard.edu> <57680016@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:14:30 GMT
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- In article <57680016@hpscit.sc.hp.com> fish@hpscit.sc.hp.com (John Fisher) writes:
- >
- > [...]
- >If you're working on a screenplay, John,
- >you're a screenwriter. You may or may not have sold one (I haven't),
- >but that's merely one measure of how successful a screenwriter you might
- >be. You're still a screenwriter.
- >
- You've got a point. I also write short fiction and, although I
- haven't yet sold any of that, I consider myself a fiction writer. Ditto
- for drama. Actually, I backed into screenwriting as I was working on
- a one-act play, so I guess I never really developed the sense of being
- a screenwriter.
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- --
- -John
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- John J. Humpal -- johnh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu -- short .sig, std. disclaimer
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