So, things happening now and on the near horizon — Right now — as in right right now and on through Monday — – I’m doing a Black Friday/Cyber Monday deal on script analysis. On Wednesday, December 2nd, I’m doing a Stage 32 Next Level Webinar: Crash Course: High Concept Writing. I’m on the […]
A friend — Was just asking about screenwriting, which she’s interested in, and getting up and running learning the basics. I threw some advice at her and here it is again for anyone out there looking to start and not knowing where to start, screenwriting: I sometimes teach beginning classes through Gotham […]
Oh yez, we have meme winners. Yay! Go see. Also, as of now the book is up on Barnes & Noble and Kobo and going up next on Amazon [expect that by Thursday]. We will see how long iBooks takes, word on the street is iBooks is pretty slow. But — If you do […]
The New Screenwriter’s Survival Guide web page is up. Ooh la la. Why, you ask, does the book have a page before it is in print? Planning, my ninjas, planning. The page needs to be around long enough to get picked up by search engines and propagate so when the eBooks come out in […]
There is this great moment in The Last Boy Scout. This car’s trunk is wired up with explosives and these two guys have to leap over a freeway embankment to escape the exploding car. And they make it, whew! Except — The blowing up car is blown over the side of the freeway […]
So here — Is how this is going to go down. [It always goes down like this.] I have these two classes opening September 18th. One is The Art of the Pitch. That’s about learning how to pitch a story so you don’t soil yourself in front of a crowd of spectators. The other […]
Upcoming 2011 — Online Master Classes in Screenwriting Taught by yours truly Max Adams: March: Character Writing, 03.15.11 High Concept Writing, 03.15.11 May: Non-Static Writing, 05.17.11 Structural Writing, 05.17.11 July: Character Writing, 07.19.11 Visual Writing, 07.19.11 September: High Concept Writing, 09.13.11 The Art of the Pitch, 09.13.11 November: Structural Writing, 11.15.11 Non-Static Writing, […]
Upcoming 2011 — Online Master Classes in Screenwriting Taught by yours truly Max Adams: January: The Art of the Pitch, 01.11.11 [*full] Visual Writing, 01.11.11 March: Character Writing, 03.15.11 High Concept Writing, 03.15.11 May: Non-Static Writing, 05.17.11 Structural Writing, 05.17.11 July: Character Writing, 07.19.11 Visual Writing, 07.19.11 September: High Concept Writing, 09.13.11 The […]
Readers are entirely dependent on you. There is no movie unless you put it on the page. So, you have, absolutely have, to give readers a visual. This does not mean a map of the furniture layout in the protagonist’s room. This means an impression of the location. Is the furniture out of Salvation […]