Hunting Artifacts
No need for a whip and gun, that’s not the kind of artifacts we’re hunting today. The artifacts I’m talking about are created in the rewrite process. They appear from one draft of you story to the next. Sometimes, as …
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Writing Scenes That don’t Exist
So after I wrote my last blog on Christine Conradt’s GLAWS presentation, I thought I’d check out her two articles in the two “Now Write” books. In, “Now Write! Screenwriting” she has an exercise called “The Scene That Doesn’t …
GLAWS Special Speaker Event: Christine Conradt
Less than twenty-four hours ago as I write this, I was attending Christine Conradt’s presentation on Creating Strong Female Characters. Going into this, my thought was, “how is creating a strong female character different than creating a strong male character?” …
Perfecting Your Premise
Back in September of last year, GLAWS’ monthly speaker event featured writer Art Holcomb. Mr. Holcomb has been a writer for fourty five years working in film, television, theater and comic books. The topic of this event: Perfecting Your Premise …
INTERVIEW: TONY TADARO
Over the course of this blog I have mentioned GLAWS, the Greater Los Angeles Writer’s Society, of which I am a member. GLAWS is a great organization of peers helping peers and professionals mentoring aspiring writers. I am in one …
The 100% Character
Back in USC Cinema/Television we had a professor that would talk about the 100% Character. That is a character that will do ANYTHING to achieve his goal. This kind of character is either extra dangerous or extra courageous, depending on …
Where the Weird Ideas Come From
When I was a senior in high school, I was in AP English. Once in a while our teacher, Mr. John Durand, would get a new piece of educational material to look at and comment on. He would then pass …
Thanks For Nothing, You Useless Reptile
With “How to Train You Dragon 2” out, my wife and I pulled out our DVD of the first movie. After watching it, we watched the deleted scenes. Since I’m in the process of editing my own script, it occurred …
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Last Monday was our biweekly meeting of GLAWS Screenwriting Critique Group that meets at Los Angeles Valley College. Every other meeting we take fifteen pages of two submitted scripts, read through them and critique them. This is the second time …
Book Review: “How to Blog a Book” by Nina Amir
This book is really geared for those writing nonfiction. If you are writing on a nonfiction topic, this book should be a great help to you. The premise is that if you want to write a self-help, how-to or other …