Now that there are several screenwriter-oriented blogs, I thought I’d take a moment to examine the six-degrees of separation quality among them.
Or perhaps I just want to revel in the fact that I’m the Kevin Bacon of screenbloggers.
**★ [I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing](http://hucksblog.blogspot.com/)**
This is how I met [Josh Friedman](http://imdb.com/name/nm0295264/): When I bought my house, my agent said, “Oh, hey, Josh Friedman lives down the street. You should knock on his door or something.” Like’s it’s Mayberry. But one day while I was walking my dog, I said what the hell, and introduced myself.
As it turns out, Josh and I grew up in the same town: Boulder, Colorado. He went to the cool high school downtown, while I went to the preppy high school up on a giant hill, literally looking down on the town.
Josh and I had the same agent starting out, sort of. Mine was an actual agent. His was the young woman who [answered the actual agent’s phones](http://hucksblog.blogspot.com/2005/08/one-day-at-time.html).
Josh lives in a bigger, fancier house than mine, covered with vines. (Like Madeline!) Actual famous people grew up in Josh’s house. Honest. Meanwhile, I sold my house to [Michael Rappaport](http://imdb.com/name/nm0001650/).
My moving had almost nothing to do with Josh and his monkeys.
I suspect Josh’s blogname for me will be some derivation of Ned Flanders, pesky do-gooding neighbor. Although it’s pretty egotistical to think he’ll ever write about me. (bashfully twisting foot.)
**★ [The Artful Writer](http://artfulwriter.com/)**
[Craig Mazin](http://imdb.com/name/nm0563301/) and I have the same agent. One day, my agent says, “One of my other clients has some questions about your website. Is it okay if I give him your number?” I say sure.
Craig calls. He asks about how I set up my site. He really wants to know how I got the brad graphic to float over on the right-hand side. (Answer: voodoo.) It’s only after a few minutes of conversation that he mentions that he’s at the hospital, because *his wife is in labor.*
Now that’s dedication. Or avoidance. It’s something.
To this day, I’ve never met Craig in person.
**★ [Man Bytes Hollywood](http://www.davidanaxagoras.com/)**
I first encountered David Anaxagoras’s site through a comment he’d left on a post. Apparently, he was significantly influenced by my site, but his layout and such is actually quite a bit smarter.
In fact, I stole these quotation marks from him. I have not poached his progress bars, but that’s only because I haven’t thought of anything worth charting.
I ended up meeting David when I spoke at his screenwriting class. He’s a good guy.
As for the other screenbloggers, I have no juicy dirt to spill. I only know them by their URLs.