I ran into — Joanne Lammers at Austin Film Festival. Joanne is a friend and really cool and is the Director of the Archive at Writer’s Guild of America. I have known Joanne more years than I will say in public but to put it in perspective, one of those babies was a bump […]
The new — Online screenwriting class Non-Static Writing begins in one week. There are still two open seats in this class. Non-Static Writing | Begins March 9, 2010 Non-Static Writing : 6 Week Workshop begins Tuesday March 9th 2010. This is an online 6 week advanced course on non-static writing taught by yours […]
Jan 5 — January 5 SeeMaxRun Character Workshop : The 6 Week Character Workshop begins Tuesday January 5th. This is an online 6 week advanced course on characterization taught by yours truly Max Adams. Subjects include introductions [aka authorial intrusion is your friend]; protagonists vs. antagonists; using point of view characters; defining characters through […]
I bitch — A lot about things gone wrong in scripts I read for Nicholl. Bad brads. Bad action. “Etcetera.” WAY too many Dead Elvis jokes — There is another side to this too though. Sometimes things go really right in Nicholl scripts. The thing about that is though, Nicholl reading requires a certain […]
Okay — Never. Ever. Put “etc.” in scene description. Just don’t. where the art work comes from : that is girl with dunce cap by arthur tress
Thought for today — The coolest thing about Nicholl going fully electronic this year is — No brad mayhem! Yay! where the art work comes from : that is magician’s rabbit in hat by kent dufault
So I am reading — This script. It is a nice script. Characters are working. Dialogue is working. There is structure. Emotion. Tone. Pacing. The writer even has voice. Things are going great. Then a character in the script starts picking strawberries off a vine. Dead stop. Strawberries do not grow on vines. I […]
This totally requires — A photograph. It is tragically not a good photograph — hey it is a dinky camera phone — but should illustrate the situation. Answers are multiple choice I would not spring a blue book on you. Given that most scripts are created equal before you open them, which script […]