Earlier this week I drove through St. Paul, Minnesota which just happens to be the birth place of F. Scott Fitzgerald who is most well-known for his novels The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night—both which were made into films. ”All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.”F. Scott Fitzgerald (Stumbled upon this [...]
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“As a guy who runs a blog about the nuts and bolts of screenwriting, I sometimes get frustrated by aspirants who only want to dip their toes in, or believe they should be able to have a thriving film career in Duluth. The don’t want to commit fully to the form or the craft.” John [...]
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“What applies to musicians, artists, ballet dancers, and practitioners of all arts applies to screenwriters. In order to create viable art that will hold someone’s attention, you must have dramatic tension. Which, in screenwriting, is created by a line of action and opposing forces. Tension=Attention. It is obvious that screenplays have many more elements than a [...]
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Tuesday night I drove by the Vali-Hi Drive-In in Lake Elmo, Minnesota off I-94 just outside The Twin Cities. It’s been at least a decade since I’ve been to a movie at a drive-in. But I stopped and took this picture because it’s hard for be to pass up the combination of neon and an old [...]
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I’ve driven over 3,000 miles in the last month which is more than normal for me. And on those 12, 15 and even 20 hours days working on video projects it’s hard to sneak a post in. So I’ve decided to add a new category called Post Cards from the Road where I can give [...]
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Downtown Kansas City taken with my iPhone 8.13.11 from the public viewing area above WW1 National Museum. (And using Chase Jarvis’ The Best Camera App.) Scott W. Smith
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“All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.”Grant Wood (Iowa painter, American Gothic) Since I’m shooting in Duluth, Minnesota today I’ll make this my last Kansas City-related post for a while. Gordon MacKenzie worked for Hallmark Cards in Kansas City for 30 years—to the day. He began as [...]
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Everyone who is old enough to buy a Mother’s Day card had heard of Hallmark Cards—or has at least looked at one. But how many people know that Hallmark Cards has its headquarters in Kansas City? And what does all of this have to do with screenwriting? Rewind fifteen years when UCLA’s William Froug released [...]
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After spending six days in Kansas City I realized that two of the biggest influences in recent American history, both had major Kansas City connections and both had the name Walter; Walt Disney & Walter Cronkite. On Saturday I drove by the original Walt Disney studio on 31 Street. Disney was born in 1901 in [...]
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It always comes back to Diablo Cody doesn’t it? It took being in Kansas City several days field producing some stories before I realized that Diablo Cody in fact has a connection to Kansas City. I don’t have cable and have never seen the show The United States of Tara, so until now I didn’t [...]
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