“Dan Fogelman is the new Cameron Crowe.” Script Shadow (November 18, 2010 post) Screenwriter Dan Fogelman has not only racked up an impressive list of movies Cars & Tangled, but his landed some impressive paydays Crazy Stupid Love ($2.5 million) and, according to the LA Times, Fogelman sold a pitch for Imagine for $2 million (with an [...]
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“For me, the goal isn’t to write a novel, it is to write five pages a day. They’re not perfect, they need frequent revision down the road , but at least they exist.” David Morrell (Author of First Blood) Pulled from the audio book The Successful Novelist
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The history of creative writing—and world history itself—could be summed up in the following line. “And for that one moment, everything was perfect…and then that moment ended.” Tangled Screenplay by Dan Fogelman (from a Grimm Brothers story of Rapunzel) Related Posts: Everything I learned in Film School (Tip #10 Neil Simon on Conflict “There is [...]
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The past weekend while driving through West Virginia I may have heard more bluegrass music on the radio than I have in the last decade. The perfect ending to the weekend was a rebroadcast of The 2011 International Bluegrass Music Awards Show (IBMA) that was held in the Ryman Auditorium on September 29. That’s when [...]
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The first time I ever heard the word euphoria it was when I was a teenager and when I learned that was the name of singer Jimmy Buffett’s boat. I had to look up the word in the dictionary. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary euphoria is: 1. a feeling of well-being or elation I took [...]
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While shooting a production in Morgantown, West Virginia I ate dinner at the Cafe Bacchus. The restaurant is in a two-story Victorian house that used to be owed by Lucian Smith who just happened to be one of the passengers who died aboard the Titanic. Each year in honor of Lucian, the Cafe Bacchus has [...]
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This was overheard at a restaurant in Morgantown, West Virginia in regard to all the well dressed women during sorority rush week walking around at the University of West Virginia: “You get to see Morgantown’s finest during sorority week.” Related Post: From West Virginia to Hollywood (on screenwriter Lawrence Kasden—Raiders of the Lost Ark— who grew up [...]
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I asked a West Virginian what Moonshine tasted like and he said;“It’s like drinking fire.” That made me think I needed to start a new category for what I consider original lines or at least ones I consider fresh. 
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When you think of actress Jennifer Garner you probably don’t think of Charleston, West Virginia— but that’s where she spent much of her childhood before graduating from George Washington High School. I was in Charleston shooting a project today and learned that as a teenager Garner worked at a men’s clothing store called Kelley’s Men’s [...]
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