Have you heard the old joke about the woman who tried to make it in Hollywood by sleeping with all the writers? That's a pretty bad recipe for success, but it can't possibly be worse than blogging. Hell, I've been doing it for ten years now, and the only screenplay I ever wrote almost got me sued. Still, Diablo Cody — former stripper, internet It Girl, and author of the screenplay for Juno — seems to think it's possibly to find Hollywood success via blogging, and in Wired, she lets us in on the five-step plan. Steps One and Two (study writing and start blogging) are pretty easy, but "publish your memoir at age twenty-four" is a bit beyond most of us, and Step Five (produce a TV show for Steven Spielberg) doesn't seem to have helped Skip Lusk's career much. — Leonard Pierce
[Step Six: Be named "Diablo Cody." — ed.]
