Screenwriting From Iowa

Here’s the first shot from the Good Morning America’s taping in Downtown Cedar Falls, Iowa.

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Sometimes I think about the only way
That I’ll ever see life beyond L.A. is dying
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“The antagonist must be as strong as the protagonist. The wills of conflicting personalities must clash.”
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“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing [...]

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 ”Time. We live by it, ladies and gentlemen, it doesn’t live by us.”
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“The pivotal character knows what he wants…Without him the story flounders…in fact, there is no story.”
                                       Lajos Egri
One of the hang-ups that some people have with the classic writing book The Art of Dramatic Writing by Lajos Egri is that its focus in on theater. And while some of the references are more well known [...]

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This week I called one of the most respected make-up artists in Iowa for an upcoming shoot and I found out she’s booked into August. Turns out she’s working in Des Moines on a feature with Forrest Whitaker (Oscar winner for The Last King of Scotland) and Adrian Brody (Oscar winner for The Pianist).
That’s some [...]

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“The premise is the motivating power behind everything we do.”
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So it’s been just over six months since I had the crazy idea to go daily with this Screenwriting from Iowa blog. Like Lance Armstrong I don’t know if I’m going to return next year or if December 31, 2009 will be the finish line for the daily gig. In the meantime, I continue to hunt [...]

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“People who wouldn’t know an emotion if it slapped them in the face usually aren’t good storytellers. The good storytellers are the people who are attracted by the mystery of things that ‘don’t make sense’ rather than fearing those things. The human part of you is the part that doesn’t make sense. This is the [...]

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