Amazing

I never thought that I’d ever be able to say this, but my story outline was approved by my editor, and I’ve just submitted it to the film producer. Now to wait and see if they’ll let me do the screenplay on spec.
It’s nothing major, a very small film by an indie production house, and [...]

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Protected: That’s not in the script!

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Maybe a screenplay, and not a novel.

I flamed out of NaNoWriMo 2007 with a word count under 20,000. The story simply didn’t have enough life in it, and I was relieved when I hit the delete key on the file. Still, getting 20,000 words onto the page was exhilarating in and of itself, so I’ll try again, this time in what [...]

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johnaugust.com » Seven Things I Learned from World of Warcraft

This is cool. The tags of this post read: Gaming/Videogames, Film&TV/Screenwriting, and Work/Productivity/GTD. I never thought I’d have a post that cut across three interests like that, but here you go.
For the uninitiated, John August is a screenwriter. His best-known work is probably Big Fish. Anyway, the man is a geek, and while I read [...]

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Review vs Critique

Scott over at Alligators in a Helicopter talks about film critics.
What I try to do falls clearly within the “review” camp, since I don’t go out of my way to do any real “critiquing” of films (or anything, including games, for that matter). The most important element of any review is how the reviewer feels [...]

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Bear on a Motherfracking Bus!

Jeremy Slater did it.

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