I’m lucky that I have a full time job and make a fair wage. Especially while I chase a dream. A lot of writers have a tough time. Even the really good ones.
Here’s an interesting article over at Deadline Hollywood. The comments are worth a read. Some salty language.
M A R K
Guess!
OK… there are fifty “full-time flavors.” Then, from time to time, they introduce “rookie” jelly belly’s that they consider for full-time inclusion with the “professional” beans. They either make the team. Or they don’t. It’s a cruel jelly bean world.
There are also the jelly belly’s that make up their own family, separate from the “main” [...]
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 get off [...]
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 [...]
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 at [...]
Let’s say you’re not a math genius and someone said to you “Imagine you’re trapped in a six thousand square foot house with 10 foot ceilings. If the thing was completely sealed, how long would it take them to kill each other with the CO2 they exhale?”
I DARE YA!
Surely, a few of you will just [...]
No matter how good you are, you’re gonna come to the point in a script where exposition is needed.
In BELOW THE ICE they come up with “the plan” to get themselves out of their predicament. The “show, don’t tell” idea would lead me to just DOING IT. Just show them enact the plan.
But it’s not [...]
“You’re all just over analyzing sht writing.”
– Quote from IMDB message boards.
What do you get when you take the director of Charlies Angel’s and the writer of Catwoman?
But of course! You would get
TERMINATOR: SALVATION (aka Terminator 4)
It was really really bad.
There were some cool things. Sound. Set design. SFX. But geez. Spend a few bucks [...]
That phrase occurred to me just a while ago as I was writing a new ending for Below the Ice.
It literally had to go to 11.
I looked at what I already had and thought: Is it an 11?
No. It was not an 11. I need an 11. I need it to be so ass-kickingly spectacular [...]
I love music. All kinds. The Police are playing in the background right now. My playlist, which I stream from my wife’s computer via WinAmp remote
to the XBOX 360 and out of the good sound system, is comprised of 514 choice tracks from my library of 21389 (and growing). I don’t say this [...]