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From Fire Comes Light: Screen(re)writing from the Soul
During the past two years, and under the tutelage of Hollywood script analyst Michael Ray Brown, I’ve been writing, rewriting, and revising my fourth feature-length screenplay called A Beautiful...
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What the Dickens is Going on with Writers Today?!
Charles Dickens wrote “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” the immortal opening sentence to A Tale of Two Cities. Just imagine if he had left behind a typo! Today, writing truly sees...
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A Writer’s Roots: My Super Powers and Secret Wars as a Wordslinger
“I can’t believe it’s been twenty-five years since I bought my first Super Powers figure!” said the salt-and-pepper haired hipster working the floor at St. Mark’s Comics while pointing out a few...
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Craft Before Content, Part One: The Bob Ross Effect
The other night I was at Bar Majestic in Downtown Jersey City with Marinell all set to do some serious Cerise planning and prep work. Above us on a big screen, a video playing––The Joy of Painting,...
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Craft Before Content, Part Two: Anyone Can Be a Writer Nowadays, Right?
Nowadays, people are allowed to fancy themselves as anything they like with just a smidgen of experience and a lot of book smarts. When someone asks me what I am, I quickly reply, “I’m a poet.” I can...
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Ten Pages a Day: Getting Your Screenplay From First Page to First Draft
Traditional screenwriting is kaput, in my humble opinion. For those of you who follow my tweets and Facebook status updates, you might recall that a few weeks ago I finished the first draft of my...
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Auteurs Rising: Filmmaking’s First Act Revisited
I recently had a brief but insightful discussion with a screenwriter friend of mine about just how long it should take to write a short script. Apparently, someone mentioned she’d taken a while to...
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Riding the Writer’s Road: Three Lessons Learned in Three Months of Writing
Today marks the beginning of my fourth month writing The Tao of Crowdfunding for Filmmakers, and on May 1st I should have a complete manuscript ready to turn in to the editors at Michael Wiese...
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Hitting The Writer’s Block (And Breaking Right On Through It)
In all my nearly twenty years as a poet and writer, I’ve never believed in writer’s block. And this isn’t a piece expounding on how I suddenly found myself staring into the blank Microsoft Word...
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