Tales from the Script: the Cross-post
Yeah, yeah. Been a while. Worst blogger ever. I know the drill. What can I say? I've been busy. It hasn't been with writing so much, lately, though I hope to change that. Work has been a time devouring exercise that pays well enough that I can't exactly turn my back on things like eating, making rent and clothing myself.
Excuses aside, I may be turning my attentions away from the still long-gestating-but-sure-to-kick-ass-someday feature and getting back into a project I developed with a friend a while ago. We hammered out the rough beats years ago and really liked the premise but life got in the way and nothing came of it. Outside events have now brought that project back to the foreground, and the distance I have on it thanks to the intervening years helps me more objectively analyze it as someone else's work.
This should be fun.
Until then, a recommendation to all of you writer-types out in the audience: sometime this winter, look for a DVD called Tales from the Script. I caught a screening tonight in LA and thought it was quite a useful, insightful and vaguely depressing look at the world of screenwriting from people who have had their "big break." Shane Black, Zak Penn, David Hayter, Bruce Joel Rubin and the ray of sunshine that is William Goldman (IMDB them, kids) and many others share their tales from the inside. It's not all depressing, of course, some of it is quite funny and totally relatable for anyone who is or has circled the Industry from the perch of the aspiring screenwriter.
The director hopes it will be out on DVD in January, along with a companion book that is scheduled for release then.
Check it out!
Excuses aside, I may be turning my attentions away from the still long-gestating-but-sure-to-kick-ass-someday feature and getting back into a project I developed with a friend a while ago. We hammered out the rough beats years ago and really liked the premise but life got in the way and nothing came of it. Outside events have now brought that project back to the foreground, and the distance I have on it thanks to the intervening years helps me more objectively analyze it as someone else's work.
This should be fun.
Until then, a recommendation to all of you writer-types out in the audience: sometime this winter, look for a DVD called Tales from the Script. I caught a screening tonight in LA and thought it was quite a useful, insightful and vaguely depressing look at the world of screenwriting from people who have had their "big break." Shane Black, Zak Penn, David Hayter, Bruce Joel Rubin and the ray of sunshine that is William Goldman (IMDB them, kids) and many others share their tales from the inside. It's not all depressing, of course, some of it is quite funny and totally relatable for anyone who is or has circled the Industry from the perch of the aspiring screenwriter.
The director hopes it will be out on DVD in January, along with a companion book that is scheduled for release then.
Check it out!
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