Adding to the white noise.

2011.04.02 | Screenwriting
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Re: Publish America I have no personal experience with this self-publishing company, however I do know a few people who have used their services. The overall opinion I’ve gathered is the writer has learned some sort of negative lesson from using Publish America’s services and went to a different company for their second novel. I’m […]

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Spring Updates

2011.03.26 | Screenwriting
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Update #1 I sold a short film entitled “Middle Ground” to a production company in Florida a year or so ago but with the bad economy and their current heavy schedule blocking out time to film my script has proved difficult. Last week they called to inform me they’ve moved into calendar mode and they’re […]

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6 months in and it still kinda sucks.

2011.02.25 | Screenwriting
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Where I live, it’s a mess. And I can’t live in a mess, so what do I do? I try to clean it up. Everywhere I go I see furniture on the street, monitors broken on the sidewalk, and painted tags by people who think the world revolves around warfare.  Well I’m done with it. […]

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How Not to Write a Scene

2011.02.22 | Screenwriting
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The mark of a new writer, especially a writer moving from narrative to the screenplay format is easy to spot. The page is usually heavy with ink, and every step of every character is notated. It’s important to give actors a motion or prop to deal with in a scene, but I don’t need to […]

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Finding Your Pain

2011.01.28 | Screenwriting
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It’s three a.m. in the morning and I’m sitting here wide awake thinking about pain and what it means to me as a writer. I’m not talking about physical pain, but rather the mental anguish that supposedly comes hand in hand with good writing. If we as humans have no pain to access, how can […]

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Daily Process

2010.11.15 | Screenwriting
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What is your morning process as a writer?  What steps do you take upon waking to get started?  I’m always curious how writers do what they do to get on the horse that day.  It can various day to day, but my process is pretty solid from day to day. I’m not sure if it […]

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2 Months in the Suck.

2010.11.11 | Random, Screenwriting
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The title is a bit cheeky because I’m actually getting use to Los Angeles.  I spend a lot of time in my little hamster cage writing and researching which is exactly what I did in Dallas, so Los Angeles offends me less often than it use to. Maybe I’m on a roll, but I really […]

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When is it time to make the move?

2010.09.24 | Screenwriting
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There comes a time in every screenwriter’s inner thought process when the cycle hits upon where to reside. Should I remain where I am or swim upstream to the land of spec sales?  One could say arriving in the land of milk and honey to concentrate on your writing could be the death of you, […]

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Be ready for anything.

2010.09.01 | Screenwriting
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First a sale, now an impending  interview for a feature ghost writing position.   So this amazing feeling I read about from others is due to five long ass years of hard work?  I’m taking it all in quite well. As a skeptic however, I never truly let go and celebrate. The universe can take […]

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It’s official.

2010.08.15 | Screenwriting
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You are reading the words of a screenwriter who has just sold their first feature.  The story is great, the production company is shaping up to be fabulous, and we’re all putting in 110% to make it happen. I can’t wait to get to work on it. More Details Soon.

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