“I am in the smallest room of my house. Your review is before me. Soon it will be behind me.”—Max Reger Paraphrasing here, when Samuel Beckett wrote of the ugliest word in the English language: “C-r-i-t-i-c”. Charles Bukowski once wrote me about this subject. I was complaining about a bad review. He told me: “You […]
Just started a new web series class at Chicago Filmmakers so thought I would pull out this post from back in the day about some how-to’s in making your web series. Why make a web series? Because you want to be proactive. I’ve said it many times over the 11 years+ of this blog. Make […]
“You have to protect your writing time. The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.”— William Goldman “Some can just knock it out and some have to lock themselves in a room and get to a fever pitch of self-loathing before they turn in a first draft. . . . each writer’s process […]
One of my all-time favorite articles is by a fellow you probably have never heard of, Allan Heifetz, who at one point in a pre-COVID world found himself making a buck as a script reader. The powers-that-be, the money people, the people with an actual vote on whether your script is actually made, are not […]
*Dedicated to Rob Blagojevich, who just got sprung by you know who in the COVID Twilight Zone Year-To-Be-Flushed 2020… Back on December 7, 2011 came this headline… This year, came this headline… Who cares about Blago and what’s it got to do with screenwriting? Because today I’ve got a greatest movie scene that’s never been […]
