2 comments Great comedy takes courage. You have to put yourself out there as the creator and say: “This is my point of view. This is how […]
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3 comments I spent a large part of Saturday rewriting a piece of flash fiction. (It’s work I love, so the time flies.) I wanted to share with […]
How to Deep Edit
Francis Ford Coppola talks about using theme to guide your creative decisions: When you make a movie, always try to discover what the theme of the […]
Francis Ford Coppola on working with theme
When I am run down, I tend to lie in bed at night reliving every horrible or upsetting moment I’ve experienced in my whole life. […]
Where to find powerful writing material
8 comments Sometimes there’s a topic I’ve wanted to discuss with you for ages and before I work out how to write it up, someone else beats […]
Does your script pass this Filmmaking Test?
2 comments The point of a query letter, any query letter is to get the recipient to request your work. Therefore a good query letter is short, […]
Query Letter Template
On June 26, 2015, gay couples and lesbian couples at long last won the legal right to marry in the United States. (You can read […]
Sometimes The World Surprises You In A Good Way
Let’s look at how a landscape can provide a starting point for a story or poem. Think about a landscape you know well. Note that I said “landscape”, […]
Start With The Landscape
Juan Felipe Herrera, who was just named the first Mexican-American U.S. poet laureate, shares his technique for writing interlingual stories: Your picture books are bilingual in […]