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Unfulfilled Ambitions

 I guess I’ll never be an award winning paleontologist, posing proudly with an Allosaurus skeleton I personally dug out of a Wyoming creek bed. I’ll…

Unforgettable Movies

I don’t watch a lot of movies, I guess. I went through a big phase of watching a lot of movies in the ’80’s, but…

Updated Ideas

In reading “Save The Cat” Snyder talks about updated ideas and characters, giving us a listing of popular actors who basically are playing silent age,…

Flipped Books

I read a couple of months ago, where people have re-written classic books, like “Wuthering Heights” from another character’s point of view. I remember struggling…

The Story I Never Wrote

Years ago, being a Star Trek fan, I once got a big jump start on a novel I was writing. I had Commodore 64 VizaWrite,…

Average Movie Filming Budget

The average movie filming budget is $65,000,000. That’s sixty-five MILLION. The screenwriter gets 9 to 10%. I’m going to skip sleeping and write three movies…

Reading a bad book

I remember my wife got some free books from someone, and she brought them home. She took what she wanted, I took what I wanted.…

Read Deadlines

Read my screenwriting books, highlighting them then copying over the highlights into Evernote. The books on writing fiction will have to wait, because I’m being…

How to read a how-to book

Many of us read how-to books. I think that some fiction writers who couldn’t hack it simply bought 5 books on writing novels, and did…