Screenwriting From Iowa

“For me, it was a matter of years of trying to develop my writing in the same way that some people spend years learning to play the violin.” Writer/director Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption) Note: I pulled this quote from my 2008 post Screenwriter’s Work Ethic. I think it might have originally been from the […]

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“Of course Nebraska is a storehouse for literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born in a pigpen and raised in a sty, he would still find plenty of inspiration for work. The only need is the eye to see.” Willa Cather My Antonia P.S. I pulled this quote […]

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Once upon a time I started a little blog called Screenwriting from Iowa. It was meant to be a one year experiment—but here I am nine years later. My original goal was to gather some notes together and eventually organize them into a 50,000 word book. More on the book and the direction of this […]

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“A new heart for a New Year, always!” Charles Dickens (From his short novel The Chimes written in 1844, a year after he published A Christmas Carol) This afternoon I took this photo at the Grand Bohemian hotel in downtown Orlando which is less than two miles away from the Pulse nightclub where 49 people […]

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