Archive for the “Screenwriting From Iowa” Category
Jul
26
2011
 
Writing Quote #29 (Dorothea Brande)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“Every book, ever editor, every teacher will tell you that the great key to success in authorship is originality….It is well to understand as early as possible in one’s writing life that there is just one contribution which every one of us can make: we can give into the common pool of experience some comprehension [...]
Jul
25
2011
Screenwriting from Iowa —The Book?Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaFor those of you who’ve been wondering about Screenwriting from Iowa…and Other Unlikely Places becoming a book —now’s your chance to help make that happen. This morning I launched my first Kickstarter campaign. (For those of you interested in starting your own Kickstarter campaign, I’ll explain the process this week over at E-Filmmaking.com.) After [...] On part 5 of a five days of posts on Jerry Seinfeld do you think I can find some connection to his success and the state of Iowa? Of course, I can. First Seinfeld point to his appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as the event that changed his life. For decades Johnny [...] So let’s review the bidding on entertainer extraordinaire Jerry Seinfeld: 1) At 8-years old he makes a friend laugh hard enough to spit his milk out and thinks, “I would like to do this professionally.” 2) Graduates from college with honors in 1976 and does his first open mic night. 3) Works on his craft [...] “I did well because I didn’t care if I was successful. I just wanted to be a comedian. I didn’t care about the money, I didn’t care about my career. I just wanted to be up on stage telling jokes.“ Jerry Seinfeld Jerry Seinfeld graduated from college in 1976 and went to open-mic night at [...] “In high school I took geometry and we had to do these theorems where you had to prove a series of theorems and that is very much like comedy. Proving something that is absolutely trivial, but with rigorous logic—that’s what a joke is I think.” Jerry Seinfeld Before Jerry Seinfeld made his mark in stand-up [...] “I would say I was about eigtht-years old, I was sitting on my stoop with a friend of mine. We were having cookies and milk, and we were talking and we were fooling around. And I said something funny and he laughed and spit the cookies and milk all over my face, and hair and [...]
Jul
19
2011
Imagineering with Walt DisneyPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaI grew up on a dead-end street. (Well, technically it was a cul-de-sac, but that sounds less dramatic.) I didn’t watch much television or travel much as a child. In fact, until I graduated from high school most of my life was lived within ten mile radius of my home. Which was fine with me, [...] Today a college professor asked me if I’d come and speak to his class about alternative forms of writing—specifically, blogging. We talked about my 1,000 posts and I told him that if someone would have asked me when I started how many posts I thought I’d write, I might have be ambitious and said 100. [...] Never did I think when I jumped into the blogging world with my first post back on January 22, 2008 that I’d end up writing 1,000 posts. But that’s where we are today on Screenwriting from Iowa…and Other Unlikely Places. 1,000 posts. Not sure I’ll have the energy, time or desire to do this again. [...] |
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