Screenwriting From Iowa

Every once in a while an over-saturated media culture something cuts through the clutter and is just stunning. Call it Evel Knievel meets Kelly Slater. P.S. I ridden waves and I’ve ridden motorcycles, but I actually never imagined someone ridding a motorcycle on a wave. Where Do Ideas Come From? (A+B=C) Very well done Robbie Maddison […]

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“I despise outlines…I don’t do outlines, but I do notes. I do a lot of notes. It’s more like stream of consciousness. It might be about the characters. Sometimes I interview the characters on paper.” Screenwriter Jim Uhls The Dialogue interview with Mike De Luca Can you imagine interviewing Rocky Balboa, Scarlet O’Hara, or Tyler Durden? Could […]

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According to screenwriter Jim Uhls, reading screenplays—”as many as you can”—is the best way to analytically as well as intuitively learn screenwriting structure. And while he did his undergraduate theater work at Drake University and his graduate work in dramatic writing at UCLA, he doesn’t believe that a formal education in film school is imperative to […]

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According to screenwriter Jim Uhls, reading screenplays—”as many as you can”—is the best way to analytically as well as intuitively learn specific screenwriting structure. And while he did his undergraduate theater work at Drake University and his graduate work in dramatic writing at UCLA, he doesn’t believe that a formal education in film school is imperative […]

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“There’s an old cliche: ”work smarter, not harder.’ As it turns out, the process of skill acquisition is not really about the raw hours you put in…it’s what you put into this hours.” Josh Kaufman The First 20 Hours, How to Learn Anything…Fast Is it possible to write a screenplay in one day? A feature […]

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“”In my experience it takes about twenty hours of practice to break through the frustration barrier: to go from knowing absolutely nothing about what you’re trying to performing noticeably well….If you invest as little as twenty hours in learning the basics of the skill, you’ll be surprised at how good you can become.” Josh Kaufman […]

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“I thought, ‘This will never get made.’” Fight Club screenwriter Jim Uhls on reading the Fight Club novel before it was published  All roads don’t lead to Iowa, but I’m no longer surprised when a couple of Hollywood stories do. The movie Fight Club does in fact have a connection with Iowa. Fight Club screenwriter Jim Uhls […]

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The instructor once he told me I could work on any line I could tune and make a diesel sing Just like Patsy Cline Broken Man’s Lament Lyrics by Mark Germino Some people claim there is a mystery of how writers have breakthroughs in their career, but I really don’t think there is much mystery […]

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“I never took advertising seriously enough to worry about whether or not there was any sort of moral ambiguity about—I mean [Fight Club] probably more accurately depicts my take on advertising and what it provides for society than any of the advertising that I did. But, you know, you work where you can. I would […]

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“The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club.” Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) I’m breaking the first two rules of Fight Club today by talking about Fight Club. But it’s okay because it’s really Fight Club […]

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