"...the Screenplay Morgue"

Screenwriter Mike Snyder posted this on the Internet's Screenwriters Listserv. Welcome to what might be called Reality 101.
"I had a long -- lo-o-o-ong -- (like, 10 1/2 hours long!) story meeting yesterday, and during a break was wandering around the courtyard of the prodco's bungalows at Warners and stumbled across their 'morgue.' The room was probably 10X12, with wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling shelves...all packed with scripts. My guess is fifty scripts per shelf, eight shelves per unit, four units on two walls and five on the other two: 7200 scripts! All had obviously been read, probably covered by some poor schmuck...and passed on (the prodco has only done 3-4 pictures since its inception two years ago). And these scripts were undoubtedly just the submissions through agents.

"I stood there a long time, blinking, then went back to my meeting -- happy to have my script in an office with real people instead of gathering dust in that morgue."

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