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OVERHEARD DIALOGUE It gets annoying, doesn’t it? All the experts–and yeah, me too–trying to tell you how to write F-U-N-N-Y? Is such a thing even possible? It’s doubtful there’s a simple answer. . It would be more complex, like at Second City where they provide you with tools to bring out your natural gifts, or in […]

It ain’t workin’. You knew it would take time, you’ve put in your dues, but MAN, that fab career in screenwriting just has not arrived. Is your blind belief in your abilities just delusion? You thinking of bailing? What can you do differently?   You might have fallen prey to one of these traps. Check it out… […]

No idea how there is no evidence this article, written by Allen Glazier, Director of the Slamdance Screenplay Competition, ever existed. So be it. I’ll republish it for posterity. This is a compilation of everything bad he sees in screenplays that come (came?) his way. It first came out on Wordplayer.com quite some time ago […]

Xtranormal

June 16, 2021 0 Comment

Hey all… Sorry for the long delay in posting, with the two shots of Pfizer vaccine I have finally made it out of Chicago after a 15 month self-imposed exile. I’ve been on the road roughing it in Costa Rica… Maybe someday I’ll find a way to connect 2020/COVID to screenwriting (or in my case, […]

Amazing New York Times offering, director commentary is the best. Learned a lot from this series, especially on the directing front. Here’s a sampling… BOMBSHELL FORD VS. FERRARI THE LIGHTHOUSE JOKER AD ASTRA