Josh Olsen can kiss my Effing ASS!

Can't really blame him. That's what you pay professional reviewers to go over your script for, or if you have an editor, that's what they're supposed to do.

Slow news day I guess...

What a jerk. The reason people send their stuff to him in the first place is because they believe he can help them. They don't want a pat on the head. That's condescending at best. They want genuine feedback from someone in the know. This wad obviously doesn't understand what it means to be human. Let's hope karma catches up to him.

Too funny. But it's true. Everyone wants a favor...until it's time to give a favor.

Man, I feel bad for Olson after reading his full essay. When you're cornered like that, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. If I were him, I'd do the same thing and just tell everybody they can [eff] off.

I understand it, if I spent the time to professionally critique someone's script and they got pissed that I gave them constructive criticism rather than just telling them that it's wonderful and they'll be a great writer and rich one day, like I'm sure their parents did, I'd be pretty effing pissed too.

Now, if people were appreciating his critiques and taking them and reworking their scripts with his thoughts on them in mind, maybe he wouldn't be so angry.

You know what Josh? Let's do it this way - You won't read my script and I won't read your long annoying article about why you won't read other people's scripts. Deal?

I wonder who was nice enough to read his first script and give him a break? Probably not some a$$h0le like he's become.

You forget the biggest downside to being a professional writer, and having appreciative folks looking to you for a helping hand:
What happens when they send you a story that has a very small thing in it that slightly resembles a scene in your almost completed work, which you have already submitted to the editor?

When your work hits the stands, you get hit with a lawsuit saying YOU stole THEIR work...
Hence the standard response of most authors, screenwriters & producers who send back unsolicited manuscripts, unopened, unseen, and most definitely unread.

Before anyone else comments that he's an ass please read his full response in the link above. He has a very valid reason for having given this type of response.

Sounds like a perfectly reasonable attitude to me. Do people expect plumbers to fix toilets for free? For accountants to do their taxes as a favor? For barbers to cut your hair out of the goodness of their hearts? Writers and editors do this for a living; it's not a hobby.

You want somebody to review your ms? Take a creative writing course or submit it to an editor like everyone else.

I don't disagree with him. I love writing screenplays as a hobby and would like to do it professionally one day, but I would never ask a random acquantance to read something, then get bitchy about their response. I actually agree with him that writers ask for honesty but secretly just want constructive criticism with praise mixed in... I work hard on my stuff and take it hard when people done't like it...BUT I don't like ignorance either, I'd rather know if you think it sucks because, realitically, you're only one opinion. Knowing what various people think works and doesn't can only be benefiicial, even if it hurts to hear it.

After reading the full article, I think it's kind of irresponsible for SciFiWire to not post more than just that bit of rant from it. It gives the completely wrong impression of the man and makes him look like a douchebag.