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Somebody ask me if you need an agent to start your career as a writer. Go ahead, I’ll wait… The answer is no. Ask me if you need to submit to screenwriting contests to start your career as a filmmaker. The answer is no. Ask me if you need to go to LA to start […]

Chat- Beginnings

December 1, 2012 0 Comment

We’re going to try something new. I want to give you a real-time look at how a micro-budget movie is made. This will be chronology; it will be insight from the inside, the life and making of the movie CHAT. Self-serving? Sure. This is SCRIPT GODS, I am happy to cop to selfishness. I hope […]

“Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.” -Erma Bombeck It’s Thanksgiving week, and as with many holiday scenarios, my own Thanksgiving will be spent with family and friends. In my case, actually, ex-family. I spend the holidays with my brother’s ex-wife’s […]

  For those of you unable to make the lecture today at Chicago Screenwriters Network. I’ll post the full content shortly, but for now, let me ask you this: Do you need an agent to start your career as a writer? Short answer is… No. Do you need to submit and place well in screenwriting […]