Turns out writing songs and writing screenplays have some things in common: “Around nine in the morning I’d hear Jackson Browne’s teapot going off with this whistle in the distance, and then I’d hear him playing piano. I didn’t really know how to write songs. I knew I wanted to write songs, but I didn’t […]
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Different Drummer from Linden, TexasPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“Linden, Texas is my home town. It’s a small town in northeastern Texas. When I was growing up the population was about 2,500—2,600. It’s primarily an agricultural area. Some people worked at the steel mill —it’s just a typical small Texas town. There’s an old courthouse dating back to before the Civil War and one […] This is a blog about screenwriting, but there is also an emphasis here of a sense of place. And since tonight is the first college football national championship playoff game between the University of Oregon and The Ohio State University it’s as good a time as any to talk about Eugene and Columbus. Eugene, Oregon […] “I attempted to write my first novel when I was twenty-four. Bagger Vance[my first published book] came out when I was fifty-one. “Twenty-seven years is a long time to labor without success. Can you imagine how many times I was taken aside by spouse, lovers, family, and friends and given ‘the talk?’ Can you imagine […] |
