Hello Good Reader… The French poet Lautreamont in his master work Les Chants de Maldorer spoke of having no time for lunch due to his pursuit of the ostrich across the painted desert– much like that “Super Genius”, Wil-E-Coyote… What’s this got to do with screenwriting? Zero! Other than, perhaps, your relentless pursuit to […]
Columbia College. This is where I’ve made a living for 20 years. I wanted to put up some of my favorite videos here that I like to screen at Columbia. Thought you might be interested. Have dozens of student flicks but haven’t the right to post those. But these are out in the world and […]
“I am in the smallest room of my house. Your review is before me. Soon it will be behind me.”—Max Reger Paraphrasing here, when Samuel Beckett wrote of the ugliest word in the English language: “C-r-i-t-i-c”. Charles Bukowski once wrote me about this subject. I was complaining about a bad review. He told me: “You […]
Just started a new web series class at Chicago Filmmakers so thought I would pull out this post from back in the day about some how-to’s in making your web series. Why make a web series? Because you want to be proactive. I’ve said it many times over the 11 years+ of this blog. Make […]
“You have to protect your writing time. The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.”— William Goldman “Some can just knock it out and some have to lock themselves in a room and get to a fever pitch of self-loathing before they turn in a first draft. . . . each writer’s process […]
