A financially stricken screenwriter works through his crippling writer’s block with the help of a misanthropic author, to write the great American novel.

Second one: Despite being in huge debt, a Hollywood hack screenwriter struggles to defeat his crippling writer’s block to write the great American novel.

Hi Scott.

Yeah I honestly thought there’s not much conflict here.

I kept thinking it’s less about writer’s block and more about the issues causing it. (Of which I’m not sure about – whether it’s this cocky Hollywood hack having to humble himself and ask for help, or perhaps he has commitment issues, or perhaps he’s self-sabotaging himself, etc. Perhaps all of them. I dunno.)

So yeah – this one’s still quite foggy to me.

The misanthropic author was going to be this workaholic children’s author writing a screenplay. Meanwhile, he’s this Hollywood hack, no longer passionate about writing scripts who is taking this chance by writing a book (and thus perhaps rediscovering his love for writing and why he did it in the first place.)

So yeah – a film for writers but it’s incredibly foggy.

Also: this logline is part of a “Magnolia” film of sorts – I put up three other loglines/stories (the ones with the retired novelist, playwright, journalist) and they should all intertwine. It should be a love letter to writers 🙂

(Think “Wonder Boys” meets “Magnolia”.)

But again – it’s all very foggy and half-baked still.