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Sep.03.2011
Up until the time I entered middle school, that murderer of illusions, I believed in spirits of the air, sea, and earth. My family home was a rocky plot on a lagoon, so all three categories were at hand. The stones were enchanted and had names. There was definitely a spirit in each tree: I visited...
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Aug.18.2011
Hi, I am a committee member of the Universal Film & Festival Organization, and I wanted to share this exciting news with you. ~Blessings, Leah:
For Immediate Release London August 2011
Hollywood Star Maureen O Hara joins the Universal Film & Festival Organization as president
Legendary...
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Aug.04.2011
Following up on my previous blog, here’s more on the difference between writing novels and screenplays.
Some years after my first novel Dry Hustle was published in 1977, I decided to master the film script form so that I could make a decent living. It was time to settle down to one thing;...
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Jul.27.2011
People often ask me what it's like to write a novel after 30 years of writing screenplays. But even more often they ask, "Why?" Why leave a job being paid, and paid well, for writing 100 pages in three months? Sometimes you're even paid a ridiculous sum by the week, hanging around the set...
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Jul.24.2011
I have posted neither blog entry nor new essay (or book review) lately, and there's a good reason for it. Having just spent several weeks preparing a new screenplay to go out for attachments (director, actors) with a production company, I am also halfway through another script that I'd like to...
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Jun.24.2011
Off on a book tour---signings, interviews, panels, car washes, eating contests, targeted assassinations, but you have to order at least twenty books---for the next few weeks. Will post a few of the interviews along the way....Best, Heywood
Interview with Richard Godwin
Heywood Gould...
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Jun.07.2011
Writing is a solitary ritual. We think of rituals as something stemming from religion But the truth is that anything can be a ritual: dancing, playing music, working out, meditation, yoga, praying, taking holy communion, paying bills, cooking, getting ready for bed at night. Even funerals are...
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Mar.09.2011
WICKED
Jack Welch is a handsome, flamboyant, wise-cracking New York undercover cop with a past. He has made enemies on the streets and on the force, but he might be his own worst enemy. Dipping into the drugs offered him while working dangerous assignments are symptoms of a habit he battles to...
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Mar.03.2011
Four Master Teachers - One Amazing Weekend - Screenwriter's Summit Toronto - April 9-10, 2011
www.ScreenwritersSummit.com
Together they've sold over 2,000,000 books, spoken to over 500,000 people and traveled to more than 40 countries. Famed screenwriting gurus Syd Field, Linda Seger, Michael...
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Dec.08.2010
When I first started out as a novelist, plot was the last thing on my mind. Everything was character, all was style. Partly it was due to what I’d been reading in those palmy days after grad school and who had been lately influencing me. Having had the perhaps singular and most interesting...
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