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I've decided. It's time to move forward in my learning venture to write a readable screenplay. Up 'til this point I've only written scenes no longer than the length of a sequence and, although I still had the main plot in back of my mind, all the work on the manual typewriter hacking out scene after scene… none of it works to comprise a single ( Read more... )

1. Everybody is trying to contribute to MC's demise so much, he DIES SIDEWAYS.  THE TEMPORARY INSANITY PLEAD, involving augury misguidance, has undertones of card 5 - escaping menopause. Mollie the figment of imagination
2. PANEL-INSIDE-A-PANEL The confused FLY tries to make sense of why MC doesn't just forget about her and move on with his life, ( Read more... )

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I already managed to established the idea of adolescents giving their school project a personal touch by promoting it with a controversial campaign slogan (though unofficial). Because most adolescent student have yet to be exposed to the ugly hatred in the world (besides getting spit on or beaten up for lunch money, bullied) they can be ( Read more... )

As screenwriting how-to sites go, the endless tips and samples obtained can be discouraging as your manuscript continue to go nowhere. Oddly enough, the dispiriting affect of hearing the same thing site after site while you, as writer, adopts such theories come to the realization that more time is being spent surfing the web for screenwriting ( Read more... )

The other day I borrowed the digital copy of The wind-up bird chronicle from my local library.  Unfortunately, time hasn't allowed for a second read as much as I know I would enjoy it.  I've also convinced myself that I should re-read The chymical wedding but…

There's a stanza from Uninvited that uses the word stoic and squirm in the same line.
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In the film Dirty Dancing, Jack Weston seems to be separated at birth blood relative of Harvey Weinstein.  This link to Simon Wiesenthal wikipedia page, Autobiographical inconsistencies, may help to feed the taglines of a b-story plot within the public school system to crack down on HEAVY METAL music and its Nazi influences.
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I predict that things will only get worse quickly if Americans are being asked to go  back to work, but all the pubs are being ordered to stay closed.  I predict that many poets, writers, artists, musicians and all around creative people who rely heavily in the effects of alcohol in relation to how their job affects them soberly will blow their ( Read more... )