screenwriting
- Creativity
With Creativity, Quantity Comes Before Quality
The other day my wife Kathleen and I were in the car listening to the new “Beatles” channel on our…
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How Hollywood Works (Part 2)
A few weeks ago I started a series on how Hollywood works where I collected quotes from friends in the…
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How To Know It’s Time To Drop Your Idea And Move On
I’ve written about resilience, and how important it is not give up on your ideas, your projects, and your dreams –…
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Writing A Screenplay? It’s Tougher Than You Think. Here’s Why:
Although we don’t ask for them, hardly a week goes by that we don’t receive a movie script, reality show…
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Are You Washed in the Blood? Communicating in a Language and Style the Culture Understands
In my books I write frequently about making sure that in our scripts and programming, we stop the “Christian Lingo”…
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Better Rules for Bad Words
As the culture moves away from a common Judeo-Christian understanding of morality, it becomes more difficult to decide the rules. …
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An Interview with Screenwriter and Teacher Barbara Nicolosi
Some time ago, I did an interview with Barbara Nicolosi, founder of the Act One Program in Hollywood. Barbara created…
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Al Gore Discovers the Challenge of Changing Media Formats
Although he tried to convince us he invented the Internet, Al Gore’s new foray into television isn’t getting a much…
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