Here is a great video interview with Howard Suber in Japan talking about what makes a filmmaker successful–
Category: Writing Tips
Jerry Seinfeld’s Writing Success Secret
Jerry Seinfeld shares the secret to great writing– comedic or otherwise.
Back to Basics Pitch & Writing Summary
Here’s a great “Back to Basics” summary of what you need to do in a pitch, in an outline and in the finished script.
#WritingAdviceWednesday – The Coen Brothers on Screenwriting
#WritingAdviceWednesday – Here is some sage advice from the Coen Brothers.
#WritingAdviceWednesday – Screenwriting Iconoclast & Genius
#WritingAdviceWednesday – How “conventional wisdom” is often wrong in screenwriting.
It Never Gets Easier
Here is the good news and the bad news about being a writer– “It never gets any easier.” Every writer from an Academy Award winner to a complete beginner face the same challenges, obstacles and terrors
The Value of Incremental Change
Writing just one hour day can produce a new script in just 22 weeks, using The One Hour Screenwriter eCourse. That means you could complete two new scripts a year with weekends off and eight weeks of vacation time or time for rewrites. And that’s while holding a full-time job, meeting social and family obligations and all the other duties in a busy life.
Idealism Wins at the Oscars
Pixar won the 2009 Oscar for Best Animated Feature with Up. All seven Pixar films released since the creation of the category have been nominated. Five have taken home the Oscar: Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, WALL-E, and Up. Three of those five Oscar winners— Up, The Incredibles and Ratatouille— are Power of Idealism films.
Advice from David Mamet
I stumbled on a great letter David Mamet wrote to the writers of The Unit. It’s really useful advice for any writer of any script in any genre.
Tales From the Script
Here’s an interesting article from Peter Hanson, author of Tales from the Script (a collection of interviews of famous screenwriters).