May 2011
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bella102:
“ Kidnapping? I prefer the term “surprise adoption”. “
LOL
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SlushPile Hell: My writer’s group tells me that my... →
slushpilehell:
“My writer’s group tells me that my epic novel is highly likely to land me a publisher…”
I’ve read your query and sample pages, and I can give you a list of 5 things more likely to happen than your manuscript landing a publisher:
5. Rebecca Black will have a long, critically-acclaimed singing career.
4. I’ll start savoring the taste of lite beer.
3. The NY...
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Have I mentioned how in love I am with the new iPad?
No?
I am so in love with the new iPad.
:::happy sigh:::
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Paddy Chayefsky’s Notes for ‘Network’ - Film -... →
United Artists - The screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky(1923-1981) won an Academy Award for his jeremiad “Network” (1976), starring Faye Dunaway
By DAVE ITZKOFF
LAMENTING the lack of “satirical clarity” in the screenplay he was laboring on in the early 1970s, Paddy Chayefsky was mad at himself and American television viewers at large. He was seeing the venomous spirit of the era of Watergate and the...
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Writer Reunion →
kitty sibille, max adams, patricia burroughs
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massive tumblr neglect
So it has been crazy tumblr neglect around here. Sorry ‘bout that. Something about an interstate move, Nicholl reading, and two classes I teach starting Tuesday. Not a lot of time to play. But once Tuesday launches things should be simpler and I can stalk the tumblr halls seeking interesting photos and such. Yay! See you again then.
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Celebrity Judge | The Academy of Film Writing →
Jeff Lowell —
Jeanne Veillette Bowerman and I are celebrity judges in the Sidewrite screenwriting competition.
I want to be Simon. Yay!
I suspect I do not have a chance in Hell Jeff will steal that away in a second and totally be Simon, oh well I will be Paula the nice sweet judge everyone loves that totally works too.
Check it out: :::sidewrite screenplay comp:::
*by the way jeff keeps...
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::: non-static writing ::: →
There are also four seats left in the online master screenwriting class Non-Static Writing. Again, check the link for more info. Class start date is May 17th for this class as well.
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::: structural writing ::: →
There are four seats left in the online master screenwriting class Structural Writing. Check the link for more info. Class start date is May 17.
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The Protagonist, The Filter, & The Electronic... →
A filter —
Is anything you place between a character on the screen and action or speech that character is experiencing. A film audience is already distanced from events in a film story because a film audience is experiencing events second hand: The audience is sitting in a chair watching events on a screen. That distance, the separation of self from a character on a screen, is the first filter...
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Tell me a fact and I’ll learn. Tell me the truth and I’ll believe. But tell me a...
– Indian Proverb (via writerofscreen)
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