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Feb.28.2013
Just back from a trip out west, and three meetings in Los Angeles with people who've read several of my scripts. One of them looks like a potentially interesting (and I hope fruitful) project, while the idea of adapting my third novel, The Blue Hour, was brought up at two companies. So,...
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Feb.28.2013
Just back from a trip out west, and three meetings in Los Angeles with people who've read several of my scripts. One of them looks like a potentially interesting (and I hope fruitful) project, while the idea of adapting my third novel, The Blue Hour, was brought up at two companies. So,...
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Jan.18.2013
From our "Unintentional Humor" -archives: Note To Screenwriters: you probably didn't want audiences to laugh out loud at the line, (from Arnold Schwartzenegger's new "comeback" film) "Mein name ist Sheriff Ray Owens."
If you are somehow personally committed to the character-name being either "Ray"...
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Dec.13.2012
Going back to 1999: Julia Roberts, superstar, from across a crowded room, gazes into the eyes of her charming, self-deprecating Joe Everyman (played by Hugh Grant—nice average independent bookstore owner in England) and declares her love for him. He loves her! They embrace! The audience cheers! We...
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Oct.08.2012
(Those who are coming to this serialized story for the first time, you can read the complete opus to date by clicking here.)
When I was in my twenties and researching a book, I studied the dark art of fleecing men. This technique, and the con women who taught it to me, were the subjects of...
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Mar.26.2012
Free right now on Amazon (US) and of interest to writers:
The 101 Habits Of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insider’s Secrets from Hollywood’s Top Writers by Karl Iglesias.
Insider Secrets from Hollywood’s Top WritersThis book not only shows how to be a screenwriter, but what it’s actually...
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Feb.11.2012
The pitch for my original script The Uglies (Ambler House Publishing) went like this:
“A down-on-their luck blue collar couple’s fortunes take a sharp turn when they’re kidnaped by a fractious gang of high-spirited bank robbers and taken on a cross-country crime spree.”
I wrote this...
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Feb.07.2012
Writing for the Movies, Art, the Liminal, Science Fiction, and more -
~ from An Interview with Harrison Solow by Madison Woods.
MW: Since you’ve been part of the television and movie industry for some time, have you any insight to offer us on how we as writers might influence the possibility of...
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Jan.26.2012
Just when I thought I had truly read it all, a client submitted a "new" screenplay in which s/he copied and pasted the entire text of a Shakespearean play into Final Draft, gave it a new title and claimed authorship on the front cover.
I diplomatically explained that people who love Shakespeare...
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Oct.06.2011
When people ask authors, “Where do you get your ideas?”, authors tend to clam up or worse, get sarcastic - because the only real answer to that is, “Where DON’T I get ideas?” or even more to the point, “How do I turn these ideas OFF?”
The thing is, “Where do you get your ideas?” is not...
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