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Because I love James Garner and Steve McQueen and wouldn’t hesitate to chop off a toe, foot or leg to have a drink with either. Godspeed to recovery, JG.
Unk had another installment on screenwriting structure last week, focusing on the Protagonist’s entrance into the NEW WORLD which would, as it turns out, mark the […]

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Somehow the conflux of JK Rowling’s Harvard graduation speech and John August’s advice regarding “wanting to write something else” has me feeling a blog post. With regards to JA, it’s always nice to have something like…
“The time to move on is when reaching the “best version” of your script ceases to be interesting to you.”
…externalized […]

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my eyes are on strike

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Somewhere between getting my drafts in order for the competition deadlines, my daily bill-paying 8 hours in front of the computer, the compulsive Sam & Max playing, weekly overseas television downloads, beefing up my digital design portfolio and the 3-year old eyeglasses prescription I’ve royally fraked up my eyeballs. Since I’m incapable of moderation, I’m […]

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Revising my definition of Busy

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

I don’t do a lot of heavy thinking and I don’t know that I’m particularly suited to the task, but I recognize that there is this pattern that I fall into on the blog: I go on a spree and hack out a lot of posts about any sort of subject, baseball, hockey, television shows, […]

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propaganda part 2

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

I should qualify that I want to tell a damn story well. I left the ‘well’ out in last post, but it’s important to acknowledge that it’s an on-going process that must include an audience.
Some declarations before I continue: The increased amount of scripts, screenwriters and films was a natural consequence of Modernization. One major […]

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