It was Anne Lamott’s book Traveling Merices that first drew me to her writing and I quickly followed it with bird by bird; Some Intsructions on Writing and Life. Lamott writes in a way that makes you believe that there is something significant about writing and about life. And she does it with her own quirky [...]
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Last night I watched for the first time the old Billy Wilder film The Spirit of St. Louis which starred Jimmy Stewart as Charles Lindbergh. I’m not sure why I hadn’t connected it to this blog earlier. After all Screenwriting from Iowa is all about the fly-over states. About great stories coming from unusual places. [...]
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“Aspiring screenwriters always ask what’s the best way to break into the Hollywood? I say move to Minnesota.”
Ken Levine
Emmy-winning TV writer [...]
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Friday I had a meeting in Minneapolis and it’s true there are things the big city has that we don’t have here in Cedar Falls…traffic, difficulty finding a parking spot, and two kids were shot standing on a street corner. Thankfully, the injuries were not life-threatening. The shooting took place near a park where 30 [...]
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According to Script magazine White Rock Lake Productions was doing something a little different when they produced Angel of Death recently not only as a web series but also a feature film at the same time. Directed by Paul Etheredge from a script by comic book writer Ed Brubaker, Angel of Death takes online production up a [...]
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When Tender Mercies came out in 1983 I was still in film school and watching that movie just left me in a daze. I saw it three times in the theater in its original release and numerous times over the years on VHS and DVD. Though Robert Duvall won and Oscar for his performance as [...]
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“Let me get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing right at you out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the [...]
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“Reseachers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.”
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When I came up with the title Screenwriting from Iowa in 2004 it was meant to be ironic. That is Iowa is one of the last places that people think of when they think of screenwriting and movie making. Of course, it was a set-up of sorts because right here in Cedar Falls, Iowa is [...]
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Writer Horton Foote died a few days ago, but his writings will live a long, long time.
In 1962 he won an Oscar for the screenplay adaption for To Kill A Mockingbird. That alone is enough to be remembered by. Here are some things to consider about that movie:
Atticus Finch, played by Gregory Peck, was voted #1 [...]
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