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Archive for January, 2010

29 Jan

Boogie with Stu

Few weeks back, I was hacking my way through my treatment for AIR TIGHT. It was “feature complete” meaning I knew all the big beats, but a lot of the transitional and character stuff wasn’t there — both mentally OR on the page. It was crunch time. Do or die. Make it happen. Shit or [...]

25 Jan

Just turned eighteen.

Just put the finishing touches on the EIGHTEENTH full-length script, AIR TIGHT. You can read the first 10 pages by clicking on the link on the left side of the page. Wow. So that’s about 1890 pages of content. All me baby. Is it good? Well… it doesn’t suck. It was, like all of the [...]

22 Jan

Mark’s All-Encompassing Guide to Writing Perfect Screenplay Treatments! ™

This is my treatment. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My treatment is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I master my life. My treatment, without me, is useless. Without my treatment, I am useless. I must write my treatment true. I must write better [...]

15 Jan

Stephen King

I’m admirer of Stephen King. Both the quality and the quantity of his writing. His effortless style, smooth use of metaphor and symbolism, and  his  keen insights into the human condition inspired me when I was quite younger. If you’ve never given his writing a shot (has anyone NOT read a Stephen King book!?) then [...]

09 Jan

Trapped in a …

Venture / Void / Osiris is about a group of people who are trapped in a escape shuttle in the middle of space. The story is about how they cope with the predicament. When I wrote it, I thought I was writing a horror movie first, a suspense movie second.  Venture (as it was called [...]

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