“Once there is sufficient volume of air involved in this phenomenon, it can sometimes begin, quite slowly at first, to turn in a counterclockwise direction, an effect of the drag of the earth’s rotation, the way a speeding truck will create whirling dust devils along the dry shoulder of a highway.” John D. MacDonald Condominium […]
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Author ArchiveThe work of photographer and documentarian Camilo José Vergara reflects a sense of time and place. Often a place heading toward a state of decay. Places like Detroit, Harlem, Newark, Los Angeles, Chicago and Gary, Indiana. Check out the evocative photos on his website. There’s something about his photos that tell a deep story and stir the soul. […] “All humor is rooted in pain.” Richard Pryor “I like to swing upon my perch and sing little song, But there’s a cat that’s after me and won’t leave me alone.” Tweety Bird Related post: Conflict—Conflict—Conflict Visual Conflict Protagonist=Struggle Scott W. Smith
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Zeus, Paul Bunyan, & Tim TebowPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaTim Tebow hit a home run in his first professional at bat. Of course he did. That’s how mythologies are made. (Sure his home run was in unimportant instructional league game, but we’re still talking professional baseball here.) But since this is a blog about screenwriting, let’s look at Tebow’s life so far from a […]
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Writing Quote #61 (Cheever/Stegner)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“The novelist and short story writer John Cheever, when asked why he wrote did not say, ‘To show the upper middle class lives of Connecticut.’ He said, ‘To make sense out of my life.” Wallace Stegner On Teaching and Writing Fiction P.S. Both Wallace Stegner and John Cheever had connections to Iowa. Stegner (who won […] I grew up watching the Apollo launches from Cape Canaveral dreaming about being an NASA astronaut and traveling into space. The astronaut thing faded away long ago, but the space travel thing never died. Time will tell if SpaceX (or some other group) will realize some kind of space tourism, but this SpaceX promo shows […]
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Filmmaking Quote #46 (Coppola)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“I don’t think there’s any artist of any value who doesn’t doubt what they’re doing.” 5-time Oscar winner Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather) Academy of Achievement Q&A Below is a partial list of Francis Ford Coppola related posts I’ve written over the year. I’m going to designate Coppola the Godfather of this blog. If you’ve never […] “Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening—and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.” Arnold Palmer This morning when I heard he’d died it reminded me of a couple of years ago when […]
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Screenwriter Greg DePaul Q&A (Part 9)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa[Note: To support this blog, and further interviews, please become a patron at Patreon. Even if just $1 or $3 a month.] Today rounds out the nine part series with screenwriter, and author of Bring the Funny: The Essential Companion for the Comedy Screenwriter, Greg DePaul. Scott W. Smith: What do you tell the writer who’s been […]
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Screenwriter Greg DePaul Q&A (Part 8)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa[Note: To support this blog, and further interviews, please become a patron at Patreon. Even if just $1 or $3 a month.] Scott: Part of my emphasis on this blog is to put the spotlight on filmmakers doing things in unlikely places, which are often micro budget filmmakers. Do you think there’s a place with Amazon, and […] |
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