New blog locale |
By the way, I've been blogging like crazy here:http://dkfwriting.wordpress.com/newsblog/
Posted by on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:46:00 GMT |
Writers on Writing: "Heroes" |
I've known for a while that I should be watching Heroes. Charisma initially started out as a comic book, and she has quasi-metaphysical superpowers, so I knew last year I should be watching the ...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:02:00 GMT |
Thinking Through the Stakes |
I read in Save the Cat! today that your needs to have something at stake, and what's at stake needs to be primal - that is, something connected to survival or reproduction. He offers a num...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:42:00 GMT |
Help! I need an analogy! |
I'm in the final stages of a publishing a book that I co-wrote with my father. The book is called Ups & Downs: The (Mis)Adventures of a Crusty Old Fart and his Bouncy Son as they Trek Throug...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:50:00 GMT |
The Elusive Second Act |
I had a breakthrough with the screenplay I'm working on, Charisma, today. Someone at AFF had pointed out that he doesn't like writing treatments because you'll inevitably write something like "o...
Posted by on Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:54:00 GMT |
Review of "Nick & Norahs Infinite Playlist" |
Meh.Having just read a redefinition of genre that puts Die Hard and Schindler's List in the same category, I was naturally watching this movie with an eye on what category it might fall into. Wh...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:51:00 GMT |
Moving the Action Forward |
I'm in an improv class. I started a year ago at the Bovine Metropolis Theater in Denver, and then moved back to Austin in January and started taking classes at the ColdTowne. Now that I'm ...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:43:00 GMT |
Loglines |
I've been reading a lot about loglines recently. For those of you not in the biz, this is the one-sentence answer to the question "what is your story about?"According to Terry Rossio, it's the "...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:21:00 GMT |
Highlights from the Austin Film Festival |
Things I learned at this year's Austin Film Festival:1. Read Terry Rossio and Ted Elliot's website, Wordplay, cover-to-cover, as it were. 2. Just like a film has a three-act-structure, so too does eve...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:44:00 GMT |
Review of Oliver Stones "W." |
I'm at the Austin Film Festival this week, and I had the pleasure of seeing what I believe is one of the first ever screenings of Oliver Stone's new film, "W." The short version of this review: ...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:34:00 GMT |
