Over the weekend I had the opportunity to attend the 2009 Screenwritng Expo. This was the smallest I’ve ever seen it. Maybe only 1,500 to 2,000 people and most of them were just there to pitch. It was still a good conference, but this was also the 5th time I’ve attended the conference and you begin to notice the same people and if not that, the same categories of people – actors, film students, mom and pops, recently retired, not so recently retired. It reminded me of other conferences, namely the startup and tech ones in Silicon Valley. Now I know must in tech would never consider themselves to be similar to those dreamers down South but I started to see some similarities:
- Most work very hard for long hours
- They believe they just need that one connection to make it big
- They’re all dreaming despite knowing that 99% of them will fail
We in Silicon Valley like to think what we do is serious work but as Eric Ries points out in his recent post, many of us in Silicon Valley are chasing a myth. A similar myth that anyone can write the next Million-Dollar Spec Script.
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