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The Blank Page #scriptchat
Show that blank page who’s boss by filling it with words worth reading. Continue reading
Posted in #scriptchat, Canadian Short Screenplay Competition, david cormican, Interesting Find, Writing
Tagged Ernest Hemingway, fear of the blank page, Julia Cameron, On Writing, rewriting, Stephen King, stephen pressfield, stuck, The Artist's Way, the blank page, the craft of writing, the first draft, the war of art, writers block
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#WW CSSC Writer Wednesday | Blog the 40th: Gagging the Inner Child
The weird part is that I know people think I should be flattered that they are asking me, that it shows in what high esteem they hold me. But not high enough apparently to understand that I only have one brain and two hands and am made of mortal stuff, therefore I am given x amount of time and y amount of energy to produce z amount of story product. Continue reading
#WW CSSC Writer Wednesday | Blog the 30th: The Road to Hell
I’ve been known to argue at length in defense of the use of a very particular word, using completely made-up-by-me but official sounding terms like, “emotional resonance” or “cultural zeitgeist”. Continue reading
Posted in #writerwednesday Laureate, #ww, Writing
Tagged averbs, Banff Media Festival, biopic, Catholic guilt, Coleridge, Crazy8s, Gerbil Wheel, Gerbils, golden globes, hell, intentions, irony, Kierkegaard, Marx, On Writing, Ricky Gervais, Saint Bernard, Samuel Johnson, sarcasm, Stephen King, Walter Scott, workshop, writer, Yorkton Film Festival, zeigeist
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#WW CSSC Writer Wednesday | Blog the 9th: Dear Ariel
You can’t cut your hair with a shotgun after all. Continue reading
Posted in #writerwednesday Laureate, #ww, Uncategorized
Tagged #ww, advice to a young writer, carolynne, Charles Dickens, cheese, Ciceri, CSSC, Ender's Game, Everlost, gaucho hat, imagination, Jane Austen, Lee Child, LOWIM, Matisse, Maya Angelou, Orson Scott Card, preparing to write, Screenplay, script, Shakespeare, Smith & Wesson, Stephen King, story, tanto knife, the land of what if and maybe, writer laureate, Writing
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#WW CSSC Writer Wednesday | Blog the 7th: Watering the Elephants
The muse has not been served at all, unless he enjoys listening to my guitar practice, which he might. It is after all starting to sound pretty good and is at least some kind of demonstration that I can sit down and be disciplined about something. Albeit about something that will never earn me a dime. Most of the time he’s been channel surfing and calling out unhelpful tips for reinstalling software applications. Continue reading
Posted in #writerwednesday Laureate, #ww, Books, Canadian Short Screenplay Competition, Interesting Find, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged circus, cocoverse, elephant, emerging screenwriter, resistance, screenwriter, screenwriters, script coverage, Stephen King, stephen pressfield, story editing, tank girl, the muse, the war of art, treatment, work life balance
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#WW CSSC Writer Wednesday | Blog The Sixth: Coming back to Papa.
So the selector of the book this month, is as it turns out a fan of Hemmingway, which I am in fact not. A little too adamantly not as it turns out as I opened my big fat gob and dumped all over it at length. Continue reading
Posted in #writerwednesday Laureate, #ww, Books, Canadian Short Screenplay Competition, Interesting Find, Writing
Tagged #writerwednesday, #ww, #ww Laureate, @raingirls, A Farewell to Arms, aha, big moments, book, book club, books, Canadian Short Screenplay Competition, cocoverse, CSSC, discourse, drama, Ernest Hemmingway, Hemingway, Lisey’s Story, savager, script contest, Snows of Kilimanjaro, Stephen King, Top 10, TV writing, writers, Writing
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