Archive for the “Screenwriting From Iowa” Category


Here’s a quote from back in 2013—a few years before Greta Gerwig made her directorial debut with Lady Bird. (A film that just won Golden Globe awards for Best Motion Picture-Musical or Comedy, and Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture.) “[Directing] was never something I realized I could do for a long […]

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“Sacramento is the Midwest of California.” Lady Bird Ten years ago this month I launched this blog after seeing the movie Juno. Diablo Cody ended up winning an Oscar for writing the Juno screenplay about a pregnant high school student. Last night Lady Bird’s writer, Greta Gerwig, won a Golden Globe award for best musical or comedy. I’m […]

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“I had a wonderful teacher, Irwin Blacker, and he was feared by everyone at the school because he took a very interesting position. He gave you the screenplay form, which I hated so much, and if you made one mistake on the form, you flunked the class. His attitude was that the least you can […]

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Happy New Year Yesterday after the University of Central Florida’s football team beat Auburn in the Peach Bowl it completed UCF head coach Scott Frost’s Florida project. If  their season was a movie you’d write it off as a sports cliche. Frost took over a program that was 0-12 just two years ago and turned […]

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I can’t remember all the times I tried to tell my myself To hold on to these moments as they pass A Long December/ Counting Crows When I was 12 years old I remember thinking it odd that I had yet to know someone who died. But that would all soon change. Then back in […]

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For the last few days I’ve been working on condensing a massive amount of digital files. And when you do something like that you stumble across a few gems. Here’s a photo I took while photographing Gary Kelley’s artwork for a multimedia project we were working on a few years ago. Give you a little […]

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“I recommend you dispose of anything that does not fall into one of three categories: currently in use, needed for a limited period of time, or must be kept indefinitely.”  Marie Kondō, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing This week I’m doing a little winter cleaning. Starting the […]

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Silent night, holy night! All is calm, all is bright Silent Night Lyrics by Joseph Mohr (Written in Salzburg, Austria and performed around the world for 200 years) R.C. Sproul was the Elvis of theologians. He corresponded via letters with novelist Pat Conroy and scientist Carl Sagan. He was a diehard Pittsburgh Steeler fan, did a […]

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Silent night, holy night! All is calm, all is bright Silent Night Lyrics by Joseph Mohr (Written in Salzburg, Austria and performed around the world for 200 years) R.C. Sproul was the Elvis of American Theologians. He corresponded via letters with novelist Pat Conroy and scientist Carl Sagan. He was a diehard Pittsburgh Steeler fan, did […]

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“What does love look like? …It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.” Saint Augustine, Confessions Late Saturday afternoon […]

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