The First Few Pages
Screenwriting professionals have short attention spans. Everyone has a screenplay, everyone wants someone to read it, and everyone who’s interested in working in the film industry has to pay their dues by reading a bunch of stinkers. Opinions vary on formatting and whether or not to stick to the three acts, but what almost everyone [...]
It is Done
This was originally posted on another blog on January 24, 2009: On March 27th, 2004, I saw the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. That film prompted me to write the prior post about finding my voice. A few months ago, I also posted about my struggle with the 70-page Stretch. Go ahead… take [...]
Pitching The Soup Storm
If you follow any of my other sites, you know I’ve been working on getting a screenplay into the hands of people who are interested in paying money to turn it into a movie. In a recent post on Fiction Matters, Brad laid down the gauntlet and challenged his readers to come up with the [...]
Finding My Voice
This is a repost from another blog. Originally posted March 28th, 2004: I have read almost everything by Nick Hornby. The man is one of my favorite authors (Kurt Vonnegut being my absolute favorite of all time). The reason I mention him is because in the Thunder Road chapter of SongBook he writes about how he [...]
