“Just focus on the writing and everything else will fall into place.” Aaron Guzikowski While the name Aaron Guzikowski may not roll off the tongue as easy as saying Diablo Cody, there are similarities between the two screenwriters . Cody is a writer with Chicago/Iowa City/Minneapolis roots who worked a regular job at an advertising […]
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“Just focus on the writing and everything else will fall into place.” Aaron Guzikowski While the name Aaron Guzikowski may not roll off the tongue as easy as saying Diablo Cody, there are similarities between the two screenwriters . Cody is a writer with Chicago/Iowa City/Minneapolis roots who worked a regular job at an advertising […]
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“Somewhere a screenwriter is preparing a query letter to send out. Will you read the letter? We will. Will you write the letter? You should. It has to start somewhere.” Producer Adam Kolbrenner (Prisoners) “#1 – IT ALL STARTS WITH AN ENVELOPE Let’s go back to 2006. It was a simpler time in America for […]
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On this repost Saturday, I thought I’d reach back to September 2009 when I wrote this post on Lawrence Kasden that was originally called From West Virginia to Hollywood: Since Diablo Cody is my poster child (female) for a screenwriter coming from outside L.A. (and the original inspiration for this blog) then I think I’ll name Lawrence […]
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“When I was traveling the Midwest by car, bus and train, I regularly visited small-town libraries and found that readers in Keokuk, Iowa, or Benton Harbor, Mich., were checking out Proust and Joyce and even Svevo and Andrei Biely. D. H. Lawrence was also a favorite. And sometimes I remember that God was willing to […]
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“I am a creativity kleptomaniac.” Austin Kleon “How does an artist look at the world? Well, first she asks herself, ‘What’s worth stealing?’ And second, she moves on to the next thing.” Austin Kleon Author of the New York Times bestseller Steal Like an Artist H/T to chasejarvisLIVE and creativeLIVE for the interview yesterday with Kleon that […]
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“Impact. Energy. Emotion. If you remember that all the time, you’re golden.” Photographer Mike Corrado creativeLIVE workshop Rock and Roll Photography The only thing that sucks about creativeLIVE’s Photo Week of over 100 hours of free online creative workshops going on this week is, if you’re like me, you want to watch them all. But I […]
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“Storytelling can be found in every culture.” Daniel Milnor In the wee hours of this morning I caught part of a free rebroadcast on creativeLIVE of a seminar by Daniel Milnor. He began his career as a photojournalist and is now a Photographer at Large for Blurb. In this era of content creators being content distributors, […]
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“Who says you can’t go home” Lyrics by Jon Bon Jovi & Richie Somber Many of the people I’ve met over the years working in production have a little gypsy blood in them. A strong desire to see new things and experience new cultures.They don’t just endue it, they embrace it. They even crave it […]
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Since yesterday’s post ended with John Wayne it seems fitting to find a post for repost Saturday that has some kind of John Wayne connection. So here’s the post that originally ran on October 26, 2010. Yesterday I was fortunate to have lunch with The Angry Filmmaker (Kelley Baker ) and Jon Gann, founder of the D.C. […]
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