Screenwriting From Iowa

Note: I’ve been on a run of posts about St. Petersburg , Florida and since today they’re having a Jack Kerouac Celebration at The Dali Museum—not far from where he lived and drank in his later years, and where the On the Road writer died in 1969— I thought this was a fitting time to […]

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Yesterday I was the guest speaker at a production workshop at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg (USFSP). The campus is located in downtown St. Pete next to Tampa Bay.  These boats are used by the USFSP (often nationally ranked) men and women’s sailing teams.  The university also has a close ties with the […]

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When I’m on the road I’m always attracted to the right lighting hit the right building, and that was the case of Trinity Lutheran Church in St. Petersburg, Florida. Driving by it’s impossible to miss those beautifully framed red doors beaming in the late afternoon light.  Scott W. Smith Tagged: Florida, St. Petersburg

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The Avalon Hotel is advertised as, “A boutique hotel in the heart of St Petersburg. A hip place to lay your head.” I don’t know if the inside is as cool as the outside, but it’s a touch of Art Deco South Beach in the Tampa Bay area. Scott W. Smith Tagged: Avalon Hotel, Florida, […]

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I took this photo on Friday as I drove through Tampa. The sun and clouds did their job to light and frame a the classic building and sign of the Pinarama Bowling Center. And here are three bowling-centric movies to go along with this post: Scott W. Smith

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Yesterday I was in St. Petersburg, Florida and had lunch with a friend at The Moon Under Water which is a super restaurant with views of Tampa Bay. Before heading back to Orlando at night I had hamburger at El Cap also in St. Pete. They’ve been in business for 60+ years, but I was drawn […]

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“The scriptwriting field is unpredictable and potentially hazardous to your sanity, chockablock with all the paraphernalia of warfare–booby traps, blast craters, land mines, poison gas and agents. Your best hope of survival is to begin the journey with as much information as possible about the landscape and the strange people who live hereabouts. Because, while […]

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(This was originally posted on December 30, 2009 on my post titled Filmmaking Quote #7. Since then James Cameron’s movie Titanic no longer sits at the top of the box office—it’s been replaced by his movie Avatar.) “I rode a school bus for an hour each way… so I had two hours a day on […]

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If someone sees a story at a certain point in their lives, they can see this character (Bella), albeit a fictional character, has survived something, and not only survived it, but grown from it. That’s what all of the things in our lives, even the negative, painful experiences, they all I think provide an opportunity […]

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“I think that we make progress by telling our personal stories. The personal story can change the world.” Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (Milk) (Note: This is s a reprint from a 2014 post but a nice follow-up to yesterday’s post.) What follows is the best example I’ve ever seen of using note cards to outline a […]

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