January 2011
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New Year's Eve Prep
Booze: Check
Chocolate: Check
Tiara: Check
Pretty Shoes: Check
Boyfriend: Oops
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It looks like I will be kissing strangers this year again.
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Happy New Year
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December 2010
181 posts
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“Talent is not when your friends tell you they
love your work, but when people...”
– — James Danziger
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BACK TO WORK | MAX CLASSES →
Upcoming 2011 —
Online Master Classes in Screenwriting Taught by yours truly Max Adams:
January: The Art of the Pitch, 01.11.11 [*full] Visual Writing, 01.11.11
March: Character Writing, 03.15.11 High Concept Writing, 03.15.11
May: Non-Static Writing, 05.17.11 Structural Writing, 05.17.11
July: Character Writing, 07.19.11 Visual Writing, 07.19.11
September: High Concept...
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ON VISUAL WRITING
Readers are entirely dependent on you. There is no movie unless you put it on the page. So, you have, absolutely have, to give readers a visual. This does not mean a map of the furniture layout in the protagonist’s room. This means an impression of the location. Is the furniture out of Salvation Army or out of a French showroom? Does this location scream cash? Or last dime? What does...
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Once again I am forced to cut an actually interesting Tumblr person for a long sequence of far from interesting “ask anything” posts.
I will miss the cool photos.
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“I am the meaner more vicious ‘Strudel.’”
– — holiday max
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“Stop trying to fit in and start trying to stand out.”
– — max adams
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TalkCity.com chat with Max Adams →
*Note, this online interview — which includes questions from guests — took place in 2001, when the book first came out. The revised edition is coming out in 2011 [ten year anniversary yay!] and I am going down memory lane.
TWBookmark: Welcome to Time Warner Bookmark. Warner Books is proud to introduce our special guest Max Adams, author of “The...
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TalkCity.com chat with Max Adams →
*Note, this interview took place in 2001, when the book first came out. The revised edition is coming out in 2011 [ten year anniversary yay!] and I am going down memory lane.
TWBookmark: Welcome to Time Warner Bookmark. Warner Books is proud to introduce our special guest Max Adams, author of “The Screenwriter’s Survival Guide — Or, Guerrilla...
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“You know what scares people? Success.
When you don’t make moves and you
don’t...”
– Nicki Minaj (via amodelgonewild)
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“Write like a pro and you will become a pro.
Write like you are not a pro, and...”
– —max adams, the screenwriter’s survival guide
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“Write like a pro and you will become a pro.
Write like you are not a pro, and...”
– —max adams, the screenwriter’s survival guide
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What Not to Do
WHEN YOU GET YOUR FIRST WRITING DEAL:
1. Don’t spend the money before the check arrives. People writing those checks are collecting interest they are not in a hurry to cut your check. 2. Don’t spend money before the check clears. Checks don’t always clear. 3. Don’t get too excited about zeroes. [The agent takes 10%, Uncle Sam will take 35-40%. If you’ve got a...
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“The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you’re dead.”
– —David Lynch (via writerofscreen)
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“I don’t just want your heart. I want your
flesh, your skin and blood and bones,...”
– (via icrydiamonds) ~Isobel Thrilling
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ScreenTalk #12: Max Adams | SU’s ScreenTalk Radio →
Max Adams is a former recipient of a Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting and an Austin Heart of Film Screenwriting Award. Her original script EXCESS BAGGAGE was released by Columbia Pictures in 1997. Her uncredited adaptation THE LADYKILLERS was released by Touchstone Pictures in 2004. Her current project, SAVING ROSE GILLESPIE, is in pre-production with director Michael Listo attached. Max is...
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“Star quality is if you’re on stage and a cat walks on and they still watch you.”
– — Jack Nicholson
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“Star quality is if you’re on stage and a cat walks on and they still watch you.”
– — Jack Nicholson
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ScreenTalk #12: Max Adams | SU’s ScreenTalk Radio →
Max Adams is a former recipient of a Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting and an Austin Heart of Film Screenwriting Award. Her original script EXCESS BAGGAGE was released by Columbia Pictures in 1997. Her uncredited adaptation THE LADYKILLERS was released by Touchstone Pictures in 2004. Her current project, SAVING ROSE GILLESPIE, is in pre-production with director Michael Listo attached. Max is...
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back to work | max classes →
Upcoming 2011 —
Online Master Classes in Screenwriting Taught by yours truly Max Adams:
January: The Art of the Pitch, 01.11.11 [*full] Visual Writing, 01.11.11
March: Character Writing, 03.15.11 High Concept Writing, 03.15.11
May: Non-Static Writing, 05.17.11 Structural Writing, 05.17.11
July: Character Writing, 07.19.11 Visual Writing, 07.19.11
September: High Concept...
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— Christmas Duel, Cindy Lauper & The...
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“From now on, the only person who gets
to yell is me. Why? Because I have a...”
– — Gus, The Ref
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Carol of the Bells, George Winston
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“From now on, the only person who gets
to yell is me. Why? Because I have a...”
– — Gus, The Ref
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“Now I have a machine gun. Ho ho ho.”
– — John McClaine, Die Hard
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navillusnylamme-:
my sister put in a taylor swift christmas cd in our soundsystem to play throughout the house and my uncle walks over and picks up the cd case like ‘Taylor Swift huh?’ and i was like yep and he goes ‘i wonder if there are any tracks where Kanye interrupts her’
omg. i died.
Christmas stories better than fiction….
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“My great aunt Jennifer ate a whole box
of candy every day of her life. She...”
– —Sheridan Whiteside (via bettevsjoan) 