Fear of a Blank Page

Something wicked this way comes.   More details next week. M A R K

Good news: 1st and 3rd act about done! Bad news: bogged down in the 2nd act. Good news: Already wrote the blog for next Friday! Bad news: It’s predicated on finishing the damn script. I should finish the script this weekend or towards the middle of next week.  Yay. It’s not really “the feel good story [...]

I was talking to Don Jackson earlier in the week about how to format a certain scene. We were trying to do a flashback, but avoid using the word “flashback”. This led to future work, which led to outlines, which led to writing good outlines. I explained to Don that my current outline was lacking. [...]

Short and sweet: Did some pick-up work on The Lost Tribe. Read Cambridge Film Classics critical analysis book: “The Films of Alfred Hitchcock” (whoa!).   And then… Last weekend, I went back and created the outline for the new material, breaking it into three crisp, clear acts, setting up each scene, the motivations, etc. etc. Then I [...]