To Turn A Blind Eye – Short Film
BRAINSTORM: Done! PROTAGONIST: Done! LOG LINE: Done! ANTAGONIST: Done! SYNOPSIS: Done! PLOT CHARACTERS: Done! ACT SUMMARIES: Done! LOCATIONS: Done! SEQUENCE SUMMARIES: Done! ITEMS: Done! SCENE SUMMARIES: Done! WEAPONS: Done! Now, it’s time to WRITE the damn thing, HA!
A Week of Progress
Been a nice week of progress for me. Pretty much a week of Log Line and Synopsis writing. Finished the Brainstorm, Main Characters, Logline, and Synopsis for Amachi’s first book and a short film script. I discovered a lot about my two main antagonists, for Amachi, that I didn’t know/realize before. They’ve become a lot … Read more
My First Read Through and Other Things!
I’ve written and plan to direct a short film titled “A Moment In Love” and, last weekend, I had a read through with the lead actor and actress, mainly to scrutinize the dialog. Everything went well and was a great first time experience for me. It was fun, a lot of laughing. It was definitely … Read more
Students of the Craft: Kelly Anelons
In this Podcast, I interview Screenwriter Kelly Anelons. We had a lot of fun and laughed a lot as you’ll hear. Take a listen to find out about Kelly’s ongoing journey as a Screenwriter, her thoughts on the Craft, and why her sympathy goes out to the poor little creature in the first Alien film, … Read more
EFF THAT! I’m Jumping in!
Well, after much debate and mulling over of “issues”, I’ve finally made the serious decision to take the path of the Indie Book Author for my novels. For the most part, I’m a “Do it myself” kind of guy. Ever since the early years of the my creative life, I’ve always wanted and had total … Read more
TPD Project Journal: Press Start
Okay, now, I’m ready to start…again, ha, ha. I’ve finally finished prepping material for the second draft of “Things People Do”. It was a fun process, revisiting the characters, interviewing them, getting to know more about them, adding new scenes. I’ve added a lot to the beginning of the story to show how things were … Read more
30 Days Of Writing: Day 21
Do any of your characters have children? How well do you write them? Not very many of my characters have children. Whenever one of my characters do have children though, unless the offspring is in some way integral to the story, I don’t think I show them that much. Patricia, in “To Turn A Blind … Read more
TTABE Project Journal: Character Interviews
Well, its Week” for me again. This week I’ve decided to slow things down a bit with the screenplay. I haven’t really been following my writing process like I need to. The idea behind this story came so swift and unexpectedly that I basically started writing the script right after I finished the concept and … Read more
