"I can't write this"

[Final Cipher]

I've had the issue that no writer, even among the freelancers, wants to write my custom script. Are there script elements that people will refuse to write, no matter what? Is it possible to get around this somehow if I find the right kind of writer?

[Kylestien]

I don't know for sure, but try taking a look at the scriptwriters and seeing what their least liked genre is. If you wrote a romance and all of your scriptwriters HATE romance for example, maybe they will refuse?

[Final Cipher]

I was specifically asking romance writers. If it helps, the film's name was Hands of Fate. I don't know if it's preprogrammed to reject films with that title. It may also be the all-female cast or the gay love triangle? I'm not sure if the game is built to consider these things or not

[Kylestien]

Originally posted by Final Cipher:

I was specifically asking romance writers. If it helps, the film's name was Hands of Fate. I don't know if it's preprogrammed to reject films with that title. It may also be the all-female cast or the gay love triangle? I'm not sure if the game is built to consider these things or not

Yeeeeeeeeeeah, it's prooooooooooobably the all female cast and gay love triangle. It's 1929 currently, people are not as... accepting as the modern day and that is very much a factor in game I hear. My advice is shelve it until a more accommodating audience comes along. Sucks, but that's 20's showbiz for you.

[Final Cipher]

Understandable, I just wanted to narrow down which part of it was causing problems, and see if anyone had found any workarounds, before admitting defeat

[greifental]

It's the gay love. Only "openminded" (don't know the correct term in the english version, but it's a character trait) writers will do this.

[Sonic the Dredgehog]

Yeah there's your issue. I also had a script with a gay romance and nobody would write it, went back and changed gender for one of the roles and they immediately said yes and it was one of my best scripts.

[Kylestien]

Originally posted by Final Cipher:

Understandable, I just wanted to narrow down which part of it was causing problems, and see if anyone had found any workarounds, before admitting defeat

Fair enough. One of the above posts seems to say there's a "openminded" kinda trait that might do it if you find a screenwriter with one. But good luck finding that in the 30's.

[Final Cipher]

Originally posted by greifental:

It's the gay love. Only "openminded" (don't know the correct term in the english version, but it's a character trait) writers will do this.

Thank you! I will name the director of Hands of Fate after you

[greifental]

Originally posted by Kylestien:

Fair enough. One of the above posts seems to say there's a "openminded" kinda trait that might do it if you find a screenwriter with one. But good luck finding that in the 30's.

I stumbled across one in 3 runs. In my other runs I didn't check all the available screenwriters.

Originally posted by Final Cipher:

Thank you! I will name the director of Hands of Fate after you

That's nice. Thanks! ❤

[Kaampper]

maybe change your company name to ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, then it wil work xD

[veevoir]

Funnily enough - From the freelance writers I was able to buy a ready script, where romantic interest turned to be also male.

[DottorCaligari]

I had a similar situation, but with actors.
Male actors struggle to accept a role in a movie with a female boss character

[CryonicSuspension]

The first lesbian screen kiss on North American television, was in the Rosanne show, in the 1990's and that was supposedly controversial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Ask,_Don%27t_Tell_(Roseanne)

In the UK, Alan Turing was put to death for being gay (1912-1954). Being gay was still under the British criminal code until the 1990's.

Some countries still have the death penalty for being gay.

It's hard to know the real story of Billy Tipton (1914 – 1989 ): maybe it wasn't a simple case of transgenderism.

"...While paramedics were trying to save Tipton's life, they, alongside Tipton's son William, discovered he was born female. This information "came as a shock to nearly everyone, including the women who had considered themselves his wives, as well as his sons and the musicians who had traveled with him...

... Two of his adopted sons changed their names not long after learning of Tipton's assigned gender, as they felt Tipton behaved deceptively..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Tipton


This article says "“He gave up everything,” Oakes said. “There were certain rules and regulations in those days if you were going to be a musician.”

Death Reveals Musician Who Lived as Man to Be Woman

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-02-02-mn-2585-story.html



"...We know as much as we know about Billy thanks to a newly published biography by Diane Wood Middlebrook, Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton. Middlebrook reports that Dorothy Lucille Tipton decided to become Billy Tipton in 1935, ostensibly because it was the only way an aspiring jazz musician could get work in an almost exclusively male business..."

https://www.straightdope.com/21342213/what-s-the-story-on-the-female-jazz-musician-who-lived-as-a-man