While many people dream of a white Christmas, you rarely here anybody pine for a white halloween. But that’s what it looks like many in the upper northeast will get this Halloween. Thursday night this is what Maine looked like outside where I ate dinner and watched snow gently fall on the pumpkins. Now, if [...]
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2011
 
Terraria (Oyster & Escargot)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaMy two day streak of lobster ended today in Maine, but don’t feel bad for me, I did get to experience a personal culinary first—escargot on an oyster. From the minute we pulled up to The Tides Beach Club on Goose Rocks Beach in Kennebunkport I realized I was a long way from Cedar Falls, Iowa. (Though [...] Yesterday on a shoot in Maine I was subjected to eating prison food—and it was better than you think. I don’t know how many prisons today serve lobster for lunch, but many years ago in Maine the lobsters were so plentiful that they would wash up on shore. I was told by the chef that [...] On Monday I was in Orlando finishing up shooting a video project when I got a call about shooting another project in Maine. About 24 hours later I was in Kennebunkport and this was one of the first sites I stumbled upon— Hidden Pond. Last Saturday night I was invited to and attended a play in Sanford, Florida called Touch and Go written by playwright Jules Corriere. It’s kind of a sweeping overview of the Central Florida town. Corriere crafted the play based on pulling parts of the 1,500 people who had told their own personal story of living [...] “Yeah, there’s a lion on Mount Perry Road and Gratiot Road.” 911 call in Zanesville, Ohio on October 18, 2011 A couple of weeks ago on my way to a location shoot I drove from Canton, Ohio to Charleston, West Virginia on Interstate 77 and made a brief stop in Cambridge, Ohio and took some [...] This week I finally got around to watching Tangeled and so I’ve been on a Dan Fogelman kick and just read a blurb from the New York Times last month where Fogelman tells what he’s been reading recently: I’ve read three novels by my new favorite writer, Justin Cronin. His latest, “The Passage,” is post-apocalyptic [...]
Oct
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2011
Screenwriting Quote #164 (Dan Fogelman)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“Dan Fogelman is the new Cameron Crowe.” Script Shadow (November 18, 2010 post) Screenwriter Dan Fogelman has not only racked up an impressive list of movies Cars & Tangled, but his landed some impressive paydays Crazy Stupid Love ($2.5 million) and, according to the LA Times, Fogelman sold a pitch for Imagine for $2 million (with an [...]
Oct
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2011
Writing Quote #31 (David Morrell)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“For me, the goal isn’t to write a novel, it is to write five pages a day. They’re not perfect, they need frequent revision down the road , but at least they exist.” David Morrell (Author of First Blood) Pulled from the audio book The Successful Novelist The history of creative writing—and world history itself—could be summed up in the following line. “And for that one moment, everything was perfect…and then that moment ended.” Tangled Screenplay by Dan Fogelman (from a Grimm Brothers story of Rapunzel) Related Posts: Everything I learned in Film School (Tip #10 Neil Simon on Conflict “There is [...] |
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