There’s been a load of compromisin’ On the road to my horizon But I’m gonna be where the lights are shinning on me Rhinestone Cowboy Written by Larry Weiss and performed by Glen Campbell “All the stuff all your writing teachers and all the books say about ‘it’s the journey that matters’ is totally true. Disregard […]
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Author Archive“How weak is man? How often do we stray from the straight and narrow?” Rev. Dr. T. Lawrence Shannon (Richard Burton in the movie version) The Night of the Iguana written by Tennessee Williams “Have you seen the cross?” I had no idea what the lady was talking about. On Monday I made a quick […]
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2013
 
Postcard #65 (Tennessee Williams)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks!’ The world thirsts after sympathy, compassion, love.” Don Quixote character in Camino Real Play written by Tennessee Williams (The first part is engraved on Williams’ headstone.) It just so happens that in the midst of this run of posts on the life and work of Tennessee […]
Nov
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2013
“The Catastrophe of Success” (Part 2)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“Security is kind of a death, I think, and it can come in a storm of royalty checks beside a kidney-shaped pool in Beverly Hills or anywhere at all that is removed from the conditions that made you an artist, if that’s what you are or were or intend to be. Ask anyone who has […]
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2013
“The Catastrophe of Success” (Part 1)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“With fourteen plays and a novella adapted for the screen, no other dramatist has equaled Tennessee Williams’ record for having plays produced in Hollywood.” Naomi Greenberg-Slovin How Hollywood Got Shocked by Tennessee Williams “I am widely regarded as the ghost of a writer, a ghost still visible, excessively solid of flesh and perhaps too ambulatory, but […]
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2013
Emotional Autobiography (2.0)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“My work is emotionally autobiographical. It has no relationship to the actual events of my life, but it reflects the emotional currents of my life. I try to work every day, because you have no refuge but writing. When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or […] “I was born in Mississippi, but I got the name of Tennessee when I was going to the University of Iowa because the fellows in my class could only remember that I was from a Southern State with a long name. And when they couldn’t think of Mississippi, they settled on Tennessee. That was all […]
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2013
Writing “The Glass Menagerie”Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“The idea for The Glass Menagerie came very slowly, much more slowly than Streetcar, for example. I think I worked on Menagerie longer than any other play. I didn’t think it’d ever be produced. I wasn’t writing it for that purpose. I wrote it first as a short story called ‘Portrait of a Girl in Glass,’ which is, I believe, […]
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2013
Writing Quote #45 (Tennessee Williams)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“The process by which the idea for a play comes to me has always been something I really couldn’t pinpoint. A play just seems to materialize; like an apparition, it gets clearer and clearer and clearer. It’s very vague at first, as in the case of Streetcar, which came after Menagerie. I simply had the vision of […]
Nov
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2013
The Shocking Truth (Tip #84)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“The truth is your friend.” Nicholas Kazan “Truth is not found in the sunshine, truth is found in the shadows.” Novelist Paul Lieberman (Gangster Squad: Covert Cops, the Mob, and the Battle for Los Angeles) Interview with Jessy Williams “When I write I don’t aim to shock people, and I’m surprised when I do. But […] |
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