I had a great, long dinner with my producer friend on 7 Red last night, as we tried to break the new climax and ending our director is seeking. It’s not too much change in terms of story, but an
Olden Days
I spent yesterday updating all my screenplay files to Celtx. My mega-old burned version of Final Draft has become too inconvenient, since I can only use it when I remember to bring the CD with me and load it in,
Also – it has a lot of letters in it
Here’s the full press release that Meyers put out. Most of the trades and affiliated websites have run summary articles like the one I linked to earlier, but it’s an easy explanation why none of them include my name –
It begins
Okay, so the cat isn’t entirely out of the bag yet, but it’s got its nose free and is sniffing the air. This article doesn’t mention who wrote 7 Red, but I’ll go ahead and spoil it: it was me
Good thing he’s here to tell me these things
Someone in a writer’s community who doesn’t know me reviewed the script for the short film I am going to make, and called it “something that completely ignores the primary principles of good film making.” He added that “it feels
Strange Associations
This torturous video (really, click only if your love of music is strong enough to survive this assault) illustrates a point I often try to make about screenwriting books (really, bear with me). While there is great insight and clarity
The Price is Right
Last night, I was talking with my screenwriting class, and the topics of low/no-budget filmmaking and digital distribution came up. It was in the context of my Vegas Project, to which I answered I didn’t think those avenues were appropriate
Affirmation
My long-time buddy Irish knows my writing going back to my very first, very miserable-bad screenplay, and he’s both pretty sharp when it comes to story and pretty willing to speak his mind. He’s one of those trusted readers who
Dancing with myself
It has been a strange experiment, essentially working with the 25-year-old version of myself as a collaborator. I think I’ve mentioned before that several years ago, I started writing a sci-fi script on a whim – no outline, no sureness
How to Do ‘First Class’ screenwriting in a comic-book movie
(Full disclosure: I know a couple of the guys who wrote the script for X-Men: First Class. I’d feel the same way about their movie if I knew them or not, but part of the reason to write this is