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 [...]
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Author Archive“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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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Postcard #8 (West Virginia Fall Colors)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa
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Steve Martin’s Bluegrass RootsPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaThe past weekend while driving through West Virginia I may have heard more bluegrass music on the radio than I have in the last decade. The perfect ending to the weekend was a rebroadcast of The 2011 International Bluegrass Music Awards Show (IBMA) that was held in the Ryman Auditorium on September 29. That’s when [...] The first time I ever heard the word euphoria it was when I was a teenager and when I learned that was the name of singer Jimmy Buffett’s boat. I had to look up the word in the dictionary. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary euphoria is: 1. a feeling of well-being or elation I took [...]
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The Last Dinner on the TitanicPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaWhile shooting a production in Morgantown, West Virginia I ate dinner at the Cafe Bacchus. The restaurant is in a two-story Victorian house that used to be owed by Lucian Smith who just happened to be one of the passengers who died aboard the Titanic. Each year in honor of Lucian, the Cafe Bacchus has [...] |
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