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Archive for April, 2009

24 Apr

Boisenberry? Boysenberry? Boisanberry?

I’ve never ever… ever ever ever… read a script that is typo free. EVER. A script runs 20,000 to 25,000 words. Wow. Twenty thousand words typo free. Does that sound likely to you? Can you dash out 25K words and hit a home run? Every time? Probably not. No worries, though. Let’s say you you [...]

19 Apr

The Root of the Problem

Writing VEAL (a 5 page, one location, horror) sort of intrigued me.  In 5 pages (or less) you have to arc all of the characters. If you limit yourself to one location (so now your into a newb producers wet-dream territory) you really have something. Putting it together is a puzzle in efficiency: how can [...]

17 Apr

Busy busy.

Not much time right now.  Here’s the short version.  Went through about 15 heavy re-writes on The Possessed (formerly Soul Purpose, formerly Between Good and Evil).  We’ll do the full project update next Friday. You can read the first 10 pages by clicking on the link on the left side of the page. Just back [...]

10 Apr

The Masters

Shhhhhh Be back next week. M A R K

03 Apr

How ZORK taught me everything I need to know about writing.

It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue. The year was 1980. Jimmy Carter’s presidency was coming to an end with, among other things, a 1.5B dollar bail-out of Chrysler. The Pittsburgh Steelers became the first team to win The Superbowl (tm!) four times. The U.S. beats the Soviet Union [...]

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