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Tag: Scriptwriting
Day Three at eQuinoxe
Your antagonist is your protagonist’s main adversary. This person is not necessarily evil or bad, but he or she is a significant obstacle to your main character’s goal.
Day Two at eQuinoxe
When a script isn’t working well, isn’t as compelling a read as it should be or has some kind of emotional disconnect in the story the problem is usually the lack of a clear compelling and well-developed Want, Need or Price.
#MondayMusings – Day One at eQuinoxe
#MondayMusings – The workshop advisors all arrived today.
#MondayMusings – Arrival in Munich
#MondayMusings – Arrival bliss at Schloss Elmau for eQuinoxe Germany
Tony Curtis & The Power of Ambition
Tony Curtis passed away at the end of September 2010. Here is what Time Magazine has to say about one of the roles that defined him as an actor, Sidney Falco in The Sweet Smell of Success. It is a stunning example of a Power of Ambition protagonist falling to the Dark Side. (In the… Continue reading Tony Curtis & The Power of Ambition
#TypesTuesday Bugs Bunny – Power of Excitement
#TypesTuesday – Bugs Bunny is a Power of Excitement character
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.
Mad Men – Emmy Winner
Mad Men won 2010 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series. The show is about the world of advertising; a world of illusion, sleight of hand and outright deception. It is a quintessential Power of Truth story and is anchored by a wonderful Power of Truth protagonist, Don Draper/Dick Whitman (Jon Hamm).
The Princess and The Frog
The Princess and the Frog is the best romantic comedy of the last couple of years. It hits three of the most important emotional beats that make Romantic Comedies so emotionally satisfying.