Talent is talent. It doesn’t matter if it’s college football players or Hollywood filmmakers. I’m calling it the talent tree, but others have used the pyramid analogy. It both cases the smallest part of the tree/pyramid is at the top (where the most talented and accomplished hang out), there’s a thick middle, and a wide […]
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Note: My new book Screenwriting with Brass Knuckles is available on Amazon in both paperback and eBook. Years ago when I traveled more for productions than I do today, I started this postcard section where I shared various shots on the road. And that also gave me a break from writing a daily posts. So […]
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When singer/actor Mac Davis died this week most people talked about his hit songs that he wrote for Elvis (In the Ghetto, A Little Less Conversation), his own hits (Baby, Don’t Get Hooked, Stop and Smell the Roses), or his popular 70s Tv show The Mac Davis Show. But I flashed to his debut film […]
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“Darling trotted back, smiling, breathing deeply but easily, feeling wonderful, not tired, though this was the tail end of practice and he’d run eighty yards.”The Eighty-Yard Run by Irwin ShawFirst published in Esquire magazine on January 1941 This is how my dedication page reads to my book Screenwriting with Brass Knuckles: To Annye Refoe, Ph.D.—who […]
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“There is a tendency to think that art is finally the place where there are no rules, where you have complete freedom. I’m going to sit down at the keyboard and it’s just going to flow out of me onto the paper, and it’s going to be pure art. No. What you’re describing is finger painting. Rules […]
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“You can’t learn bull riding, except by getting on the bull.”—David Mamet Several years ago I wrote a post titled Can Screenwriting Be Taught? and I used parts of that for the introduction to my book Screenwriting with Brass Knuckles. Some say writing is a natural gift like a bird taking flight, and others say […]
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As I watched the Miami Hurricanes football team beat Florida State on Saturday I smiled when I saw the new brass knuckles-like rings that Miami used to celebrate to touchdowns this year. Here’s the preface to my book Screenwriting with Brass Knuckles. The book is kind of a greatest hits of the more than 3,000 […]
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”I think it’s one of those times to really think about everything that’s important in your life.”—Surfer Kelly Slater (on the pandemic in 2020)The Tim Ferriss Show On Saturday I went to the beach for the first time since things started getting funky with COVID-19 in March. It was a great summer day and a […]
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Look out Casey Neistat — I just published my second YouTube video on this channel in the past six years. It’s a teaser for my book Screenwriting with Brass Knuckles which is now available on Amazon. May thanks to those of you who’ve been longtime readers of this blog. When I started blogging in January […]
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Because I am drawn to clean and simple (even understated) design I knew that was what I was aiming for with the book cover of Screenwriting with Brass Knuckles. (Think the Nike swoosh, the Apple logo, or the “U” design for the University of Miami.) This is what Predrag Capo came up with that exceeded […]
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