HEY WRITERS!!! WIN BIG BUCKS NOW!!!
This offer came over the internet to a simple but honest little girl. She aks a noted authority (that's me) if it
is legitimate.
I now commence with an answer or two or three.
Possible scenario number one:
Somebody out there who knows you, was given a writing assignment. He/she has no
ideas of his/her own, and in desperation has contacted everyone he/she knows in an attempt to get a story. How sad for this
individual!
It reminds me of the time I had to submit a book report in the seventh grade. I didn't have one to hand
in; mainly because I never read a book. I saw a kid in a
wheelchair rolling along to school. Peeking out of his saddle bag was, you
guessed it, a neatly typewritten
book report! I snatched it, handed it in to Mrs Wiedemeyer and she gave me a D. Is it my fault that the cripple kid was a
bad writer? Of course not!
Numero dos:
Some bum wants to make some dough. He sees an ad in a magazine or on
the internet. It went something like this:
"MAKE
BIG MONEY BEING A WRITER!"
"Send us your original love story and we'll pay many big huge dollars if we accept your submission!"
Of course the bum has no talent whatsoever, so he decides to send out emails to everyone he can, offering money (which
he doesn't have) for a "love story". How sweet.
3.
A "wanna-be" movie producer (one step lower than a "wanna-be"
theater producer) is, like the slob in scenario two, a person of no talent, imagination or scruples. He tells everyone who
will listen that he is in production on his latest DVD. It's a love story about two lovers who looked for love, found love
and are in love.
As I stated, it's sort of a love story.
But now he needs just one more scene to complete this
masterpiece. And he wants it to be a love scene. So he spreads this crap around in the hopes of actually getting hold of a
piece of writing he can use in his next "production".
Probably an 8 millimeter black-and-white opus to be filmed in his
basement.
That is the awful truth about 99% of the "offers" one encounters on the internet.
