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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
A pitch is what it sounds like. It’s a sales pitch. When you write a script, you wait for the opportunity to pitch it to a production company. Sometimes they have already read your script, sometimes not. Sometimes you go …
In a Starlog magazine far, far, away science fiction writer David Gerrold wrote about being a writer. He often wrote about being a writer, and one of the things he said is that a writer has to be an egotist. …