Screenwriting From Iowa

“Making it up as I go along. I write with a ballpoint pen and scratch out lines and paragraphs, revising them as I make my way into the story, the characters letting me know what comes next. Once I’ve handwritten a page until I like it, I put in on the IBM Wheelwriter 1000. If [...]

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But, somewhere back there in the dust,
That same small town that’s in each of us.
                                    The End of the Innocence 
                                    Don Henely 
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But, somewhere back there in the dust,
That same small town that’s in each of us.
                                    The End of the Innocence 
                                    Don Henely 
 
Got nothing [...]

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While Natalie Goldberg wrote about the bliss of writing in her first book,  a few years later she added this:
“I have not seen writing lead to happiness in my friends’ lives. I’m sorry to say this, I, who fifteen years ago published a book telling everyone to grab their notebooks and write their asses off. [...]

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 I sometimes write on the inside cover of books where and when I bought the book. Inside Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones I have written, “Georgetown, CO, 9/2000.” Once upon a time there was this wonderful little bookstore in Georgetown, Colorado that was the perfect stop between Denver and the Vail/Breckenridge area. The bookstore [...]

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Farrah. Michael. They are part of the small, but elite club in pop culture that are known by one name. Before their deaths yesterday, both Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson had their share of time in the spot light as well as time getting lost in their own versions of never never land. Seems to [...]

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That kind of thing isn’t supposed to happen in a place like this.
Highly regarded and admired high school football coaches are not supposed to be killed. Especially in a small town in Iowa. But that’s what happened yesterday when Parkersburg High School football coach Ed Thomas was shot and killed.
When I moved to Cedar Falls, [...]

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Ed McMahon played many roles as a spokesman and announcer in a show biz career that spanned more than 60 years.  McMahon, who died yesterday, was best known as the sidekick for Johnny Carson for more than 30 years on The Tonight Show. His trade mark  “Heeeeeeeere’s Johnny” has not been forgotten and probably never [...]

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The first time I read a book by Ernest Hemingway I was a junior in high school. I didn’t chose to do a report on him because he was a literary giant but because The Old Man and the Sea was so thin. In about the time it takes Melville to explain whale blubber in [...]

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If I told you I was going to write about the most famous writer from Jamestown, North Dakota that probably wouldn’t be a good clue for most people. If I told you that at one time he was one of the most popular writers in the world and is mostly known for his westerns you [...]

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