One thing newbie writers do is to think that their dialogue is so clever (a-la Clerks) that it will carry a movie. It won’t.
Movies are about “moving pictures” not “moving pictures of two people talking.” If I want to see two people talking, I can go down to the local Jack in the Box, right?
Right.
Put [...]
Since I’m doing this on the fly, I wanted to get in and out. Here we go with PROJECT UPDATES!
1) 2 0 3 – nobodies really read it! So sad because it’s pretty damn good. Soon, soon.
2) American Monster – it’s a tough one because of it’s graphic nature and the fact that it’s “based [...]
For all of you folks asking “what’s up with [INSERT TITLE HERE].”
Here we go. A blow by blow run-down…
On Every. Single. Script.
Look! It’s “Below the Ice”! Click on the link on the left side of the site if you want to read the first 10 pages.
In the most desolate locale on Earth, ten crewmembers of the icebreaker Ava Rita battle for survival against a beast brought to the surface when the ocean temperature rises one degree.
This [...]
I gotta whisper ’cause I can’t be too loud.From the song “Lips of an Angel” by Hinder.
I didn’t write the song. I wish I did. It is kind of catchy.
But, come on, for what other reason would one whisper other than to “not be too loud”? That’s needless exposition.
Admittedly — I was a little hurried on the last BLOG entry. Remember two BLOG’s ago? There are different levels of “done” and, at that point, I had two outlines — one for Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe (EMMM) and one for Blind Eye (BE). The outlines were vastly different — one was 40 pages, one [...]
Happy New Year!
So here I am, two days late. Usually I have this done on a Saturday morning (or before). but matters more pressing have delayed just about everything. Like I said in the last BLOG, we’re moving — well, moved at this point — and putting Humpty back together takes a while — that’s [...]
The outline for Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe (EMMM) is done. I think in the last BLOG I said it was going to be about 30 pages. It ended up at 40. Obviously, at 40 pages, it’s a fairly detailed outline, right? I was gonna do the artwork and update the main page but — eh [...]
Another two weeks, another BLOG entry.
I plodded through the outline for a new story called “Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe”. Plodded refers more to my personal style that the effort or enthusiasm for the project. I tend to plod through most everything.
The first version of the outline is about 25 pages — I’ll do a few [...]