Author Archive
May
20
2016
 
‘Make good art…’—Neil GaimanPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive. A freelance life, a life in the arts, is sometimes like putting messages in bottles, on a desert island, and hoping that someone will find one of your bottles […] “Break on through to the other side…” Jim Morrison You can file this post under “Old dog, New Tricks.” Recently we welcomed a 9-year-old Golden-Lab rescue dog named Ginger into our home. It was just about a year after our 15-year-old Golden Retriever Lucy died, and we still had all of her tug toys and […] “The whole goal is to tell our story… Every single day the task of our social media accounts is to help tell the story of what it’s like to be a Clemson Tiger.” Jonathan Gantt Creative Director at Clemson University @ Jonathan_Gantt It’s not only police departments now that have social media departments producing content, colleges athletic […] It’s graduation time and if you happen to be receiving your degree from film school or as a TV or electric arts major I have good news for you. In fact, if you’re gradating from high school and have a couple of years of shooting and editing short projects I also have good news for […]
May
13
2016
Aaron Sorkin’s Survival JobsPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“I was 21, maybe I was 22 [when I began writing]. It was shortly after I graduated from college, moved to New York, got a number of survival jobs. I bartended in Broadway theaters, I dressed up as a moose and handed out leaflets. I drove a limousine, I delivered singing telegrams. I did all […]
May
12
2016
Freelancing & Retirement in InstallmentsPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“The etymology of freelance is exactly as it sounds. In medieval days if you were a ‘free lance’ you were a knight without a lord. You were a mercenary. And I loved the idea of going to Hollywood without an agent, without a manager, without a publicist, without a lawyer, and booking as much work as […]
May
11
2016
Poetry, Punch Lines & The GodfatherPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“At a writing workshop, purely as a courtesy, I attended the poetry workshop presented by a friend, University of Hawaii professor Steven Goldsberry…Perhaps the most useful advice Goldsberry gave was to encourage writers to consider every sentence to be a joke, and to remember that jokes end on the punch line. “This is useful to […]
May
10
2016
A Really Simple Writing Rule (via Trey Parker)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“We found out this really simple rule that maybe you’ve heard before, but it took us a long time to learn it. We can take these beats, which are the beats of your outline, and if the words ‘and then…’ belong between those beats, you’re fu*ked—basically. You’ve got something pretty boring. What should happen between every beat […] ” I don’t know why I’m so hard on you Beth, when you’ve always been the daughter of my dreams. We’re almost the same person, except I don’t have your weight problems.” Joy (Patricia Clarkson) in Pieces of April Happy Mother’s Day. I picked today to round out my set of posts on Pieces of April (2003) because even […]
May
06
2016
‘More than entertainment’—Harry CrewsPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“Harry Crews has a talent all his own. He begins where James Dickey left off.” Norman Mailer “I wrote four novels and short stories before I even published anything, and the reason I didn’t publish any of those things was because it wasn’t any good.” Harry Crews In his interview on The Tim Ferriss Show, […] |
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