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Screenwriting and Twitter

Monday, March 29, 2010

This weekend I was glad to be a part of the ongoing and ever-growing Script Chat as a guest for their professional reader panel. In the past year, I’ve watched this small twitter chat go from real life colleagues and friends, and then sky rocket into six degrees of Twitter. Twitter chats aren’t new, just [...]

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Screenwriting and Craigslist Part 2: “Cautionary Harder”

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Last month I posted about some unsavory job listings for screenwriters on Craigslist. The article was picked up by a couple of blogs. So it comes as a disappointment, though not a surprise, that the same unprincipled individuals are at it again. Same M.O. — this ad is directed towards novice screenwriters. It intends to [...]

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Screenwriter Karaoke: A Night on the Town!

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

The pictures are in. October’s Screenwriter Karaoke was the largest one yet. Screenwriters and filmmakers filled out the entire bar from end to end. The place was filled creative energy. Check out the pictures. (Yes, I’m the guy in the hat.) And be sure to come to November Screenwriter Karaoke. This will be the last [...]

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Have you been to Screenwriter Karaoke yet?

Friday, October 9, 2009

It is quite possible that you’ve landed on my blog and you aren’t aware that I also organize a filmmaking network event called Screenwriter Karaoke. Right now the events are NYC based, but I hope soon to have an LA counterpart. What is Screenwriter Karaoke? Think of it as a way to let your hair [...]

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Avoiding Mental Spackle: How Not To Fill Holes In Your Script

Friday, September 4, 2009

Avoiding Mental Spackle Recently I worked with a friend, Emery, on the seventh draft of his romantic comedy. He had been toiling away for the better part of a year and he was positive that his opus was now finally ready to send out. When he asked me to give it a once over, before [...]

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Southampton Screenwriters Conference: A Look Back

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

I’m back from a five day stint at the Southampton Screenwriters Conference, which was held at Stony Brook University, Southampton, Long Island. What a wonderful experience!  Back in May when I was accepted to the conference I had some very specific goals in mind. I was going to workshop my feature script Through the Broken [...]

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Southampton Screenwriters Conference This Week

Sunday, July 26, 2009

As I mentioned last month I’ll be attending the Southampton Screenwriters Conference. The workshop I’ll be in has changed. I’ll now be attending Mastering Scene Writing with Peter Riegert. From the program sheet: “The main idea is that the screenplay is a living organ that must be constantly fed, i.e. rewriting and editing until opening [...]

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Script Reading and Analysis: Why?

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

I’ve been asked a many of times through email about what exactly I do as a script reader, and what the rewards for doing such work are. I’ve formulated my emails into a more comprehensive post for your reading enjoyment. Why do I read scripts? Script reading is great as a vehicle to help cultivate [...]

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New York Life: Seven Months Later

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Quick Life update post. As usual, feel free to gloss over this entry. So here I am. I’ve been living and working in New York for seven months. It feels much longer. I think that is largely because so much has happened. In July 2008, I began working for a small web production company. Lots [...]

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Alien Trespass, The X-Files and R.W. Goodwin

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Last night I attended a screening and Q&A at the New York Film Academy for R.W. Goodwin’s upcoming alien comedy Alien Trespass. It was a full house of NYFA students and others and the evening proved rich in film-making discussion. The evening began with a screening of a featurette followed by the full feature cut [...]

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