GLAWS Rewrites Itself
The Greater Los Angeles Writers Society is an active group. We have critique groups that meet once or twice a month, depending on the group, we have monthly Special Speaker Events that are open to the public and we, along …
Category: GLAWS
Certificate of Appreciation
Back at the December GLAWS Special Speaker Event I was one of four members to receive a Certificate of Appreciation “For Your Outstanding Service, Important Contribution of Time and Energy, And Invaluable Support of the Society’s Mission and Vision”, from …
WHAT NOT TO SAY
The first GLAWS special speaker event of the year was held last weekend on Saturday, January 17, 2015. The topic was “What Not to Say to an Editor or Agent” with speaker Steven Hutson. Mr. Hutson is a literary agent …
A NEW BEGINNING
New Year is a great time to restart and reboot. So first off, sorry for being away for so long. It started with me missing a week, then another, then another. So I finally decided that instead of trying to …
Log Lines
What is a log line? Put simply, it is your elevator pitch. It is your story in three or four sentences. This is not an easy thing to do. You spend months, maybe even years, on your screenplay, then you …
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?” …