Editor’s Note: Juneau—you are in for a treat! Screenwriters Bryan Allen Fierro and Don Rearden are coming to town for a weekend workshop, Screenwriting Bootcamp, February 28 & 29, 2020. You can sign up for one class or both (with a discount for full participation). These guys are seasoned pro screenwriters (they are also great […]
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Editor’s Note: Don Rearden and Bryan Allen Fierro will be teaching Screenwriting Bootcamp in two parts, February 28 and 29, 2020 in Juneau. Registration is open now. Students can attend one or both parts. Learn from these pros and get your screenplay started! I first dabbled in screenwriting thanks to HBO’s Project Greenlight Contest. A
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A friend asked recently if I’d written a screenplay to submit to the Anchorage International Film Festival. And did I know the deadline was a week away? “No,” I said, “It’s a month away.” “Uh-uh,” she said, “One week.” After I screamed no-o-o-o-o-o, I thought long and hard. Do I want to wait yet another
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A while back someone told me my writing sometimes reminded her of Nora Ephron. I was shocked at hearing this, and while I took it as a tremendous compliment, I duck-paddled like a wild woman, realizing I didn’t know much about Ephron. I knew her work as a screenwriter and director from her hit movies,
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Before I go further in my cautionary tale, I need to harken back to one further lesson I learned from the vampire script I discussed in my last blog. There is a rule of thumb that each page of a script equates to about one minute of film time. Thus, when I wrote my script,
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When last we were speaking, I had learned that you need to not only write really good stories, but that period pieces are not likely to be made because they are very expensive. Both are good lessons, and ones I planned on taking to heart. Remembering the primary axiom of my chosen profession, “Writers write,”
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I once asked a director friend of mine, “What can I write?” I was concerned with what was possible to put on the screen. He gave me a sort of puzzled look and then said, “What do you want to write? Anything you want is possible.” What he was telling me was that the technology
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Screenwriter Mary Katzke, our February featured writer, is adapting Kathyrn Harrison’s The Seal Wife for the screen — a process she began describing in her last blogpost. In today’s post, we get another peek into the process… There is a most annoying drip coming from the bath in this cheapest condo available. Corin has made
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