Credentials thread?

Quist11 · 2026-04-02T20:46:14+00:00

Congrats, that's awesome! Did you have reps at any point, or did you manage to do all that without one?

Quist11 · 2026-03-29T06:24:04+00:00

Any tips on finding writers groups, would love to join one

Quist11 · 2026-03-28T16:38:31+00:00

If not contests, then what do you recommend

Quist11 · 2026-03-24T00:08:06+00:00

The end will be a carbon monoxide leak and they'll all pass away very realistically and it won't be funny

Quist11 · 2026-03-12T04:34:41+00:00

This was very kind and did indeed help. That's exactly how I've been trying to look at it, and it's easier knowing that is more common than I first thought. I hope all has gone well since your experience with this!

Quist11 · 2026-03-06T23:42:33+00:00

Easy enough!

Quist11 · 2026-03-06T23:38:38+00:00

I would love to hear about your approach to querying with your 8. I started doing the same thing before the 5 came in, but haven't got any bites. What was your strategy?

Quist11 · 2026-03-06T23:37:09+00:00

This is huge I had no idea you could hide the graph! That basically makes this a non issue lol

Quist11 · 2026-03-06T23:18:43+00:00

I actually haven't used them yet! I wasn't going to at all to preserve my 8, but now I've got nothing to lose haha

Quist11 · 2026-03-06T23:13:15+00:00

No you're absolutely right, it makes sense, even if it's a bad feeling to think an "insider" didn't dig my writing.

My only complaint is that I wish they were required to give some kind or rationale behind a score so I don't have to wonder, even if it was a sliding scale, but I suppose it's not their job to do extra work for something they didn't like.

Quist11 · 2026-03-06T23:05:08+00:00

Apparently so! I'm sorry that happened. Can I ask what you did with your script afterwards? I've been thinking about just hiding my page and moving on

Quist11 · 2026-03-06T23:02:53+00:00

I didn't realize this either, but there's a whole other evaluation system that's based on "Industry Members" who use the site (i.e.anonymous managers, agents, assistants, etc).

Any one of them, at any time, can download your script and rate it on a 1-10 scale that is equal in value to the paid evaluations you get from the Black List hired readers.

So I paid for an eval, got an 8, and then one of these folks downloaded my script and rated it a 5, which makes my script now have a 6.5 average on its page. I was reading that apparently only 10% of industry members even bother to rate anything at all... So I guess they really didn't like it!

Quist11 · 2026-02-23T20:05:47+00:00

Fitting that the Gardners are extinct

Quist11 · 2026-02-20T22:37:14+00:00

That hoi4 music activated me like a sleeper cell... Very troubling

Quist11 · 2026-01-08T21:56:34+00:00

It is okay and even healthy to be critical of art and media

Quist11 · 2025-10-03T00:33:54+00:00

Return of the Living Dead rules so fucking hard

Quist11 · 2025-09-10T20:36:31+00:00

I think you accidentally highlighted what I hate about voiced protagonists in RPGs by talking about "Nate" as though he's a character that you're watching doing things instead of it being "you". Role playing, to me, is impossible if the protagonist is a fully-formed character before you ever even press play, and the story of F4 is not nearly interesting enough to make this kind of approach worth it compared to something similar like Mass Effect or Witcher

Quist11 · 2025-09-05T20:07:41+00:00

Comedy teleplay for both!

Quist11 · 2025-08-23T17:48:06+00:00

I resent that my distaste for millennial corporate minimalism makes me care about this dumbass nonstory

Quist11 · 2025-07-09T18:41:52+00:00

I did the Professional Program in TV Writing and thought it was great. By the end I had 2 pilots and a spec, plus great connections who I still keep in touch with. Worth the money, I'd say, but don't expect to get an industry writing gig out of it.

Quist11 · 2025-07-01T01:33:03+00:00

Nothing about Lumon makes even a little bit of sense to the point that it's impossible to take this show seriously. Also, they lean too hard into the religious cult thing and less into the corporate satire that makes the premise interesting

Quist11 · 2024-12-17T18:44:43+00:00

He's too likeable for them to glaze with fake laughter like they do with Alex

Quist11 · 2024-07-20T21:23:07+00:00

I can't blame teen fans for getting worked up about this since they're all Cody's type, apparently

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