Archive for April, 2013
Apr
16
2013
 
“A Little Good Good New Today”Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaToday I thought about the song A Little Good News Today. That song was released by Anne Murray 30-years ago, but the lyrics written by Tommy Rocco, Charlie Black, and Rory Michael Bourke hold up pretty well. A Little Good News Today I rolled out this morning Kids had the mornin’ news show on Bryant Gumbel was [...]
Apr
15
2013
Jonathan Winters (1925—2013)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“Everybody wants to be funny.” Jonathan Winters “In 1981, my sitcom ‘Mork & Mindy’ was about to enter its fourth and final season. The show had run its course and we wanted to go out swinging. The producers suggested hiring Jonathan [Winters] to play my son, who ages backward. That woke me out of a [...]
Apr
12
2013
Postcard #31 (Shingle Creek)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaSeveral years ago I added the section of postcards to this blog as a shorthand way of keeping this blog rolling when things get really busy. And they mix it up a little, but sometimes I find that even in a simple photo I can find a tie in to one of the themes of [...]
Apr
11
2013
Writing Quote #38 (Jorge Luis Borges)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“What I have read is far more important than what I have written. For one reads what one likes—yet one writes not one would like to write but what one is able to write.“ Jorge Luis Borges This Craft of Verse H/T What 50-Famous Authors Want Us to Know about the Writing Process
Apr
10
2013
Writing Quote #37 (Hemingway)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” Ernest Hemingway 72 of the Best Quotes for Writers Tagged: Ernest Hemingway
Apr
10
2013
Writing Quote #36 (George Orwell)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither [...] Today marks the 1,500 post here on the blog Screenwriting from Iowa. Though it was more than five years ago when I started the blog Screenwriting from Iowa…and Other Unlikely Places, it just doesn’t seem like that long ago. I’m sure when I started I never thought I’d end up writing 1,500 posts. But that’s what [...] “I like to sit in the dark and enjoy movies. I think of old films as a resource of treasures. Movies have been made for 100 years, in color and black and white, in sound and silence, in wide-screen and the classic frame, in English and every other language. To limit yourself to popular hits [...] Since I’ve written the last few posts (and many over the years) about screenwriters and filmmakers who either start with theme, or how theme plays an important part of the stories they tell, here’s a Wes Anderson quote showing how creative people often take a 180 degree approach to what other people are doing: “If [...] “The more you can find a theme that unites the plot and the character and think about that theme as you’re writing, the better off you’ll be determining the story’s structure. Taxi Driver, is a brilliant example of this. A theme to that movie would be alienation leading to violence. You pick a character who [...] |
