Happy Friday! I’m so excited that my NYU student, Marybeth Diss completed her screenplay! It’s a funny, original romantic comedy, which is the most difficult kind of story. Her first draft was amazing: well-structured, well written and has great, memorable characters. She confided that it was the first thing she’s ever completed! Building a Body […]
Movie Magic
Happy Friday! I loved The Green Book, and was happy the script won Best Screenplay at the Golden Globe Awards. Have you seen it? Getting a movie made is magic. Here’s a fascinating account of how that movie got made from The Hollywood Reporter: “Five decades passed before writer Nick Vallelonga could share the remarkable true story […]
This Week’s News
Happy Happy Saturday! This week was the final meeting of my wonderful writing class at SVA. We were lucky to have Vince Prezioso, a talented screenwriter, whose script is being made into both a television series and a movie. Who says dreams can’t come true? I was also happy to attend the NYWIFT Muse Awards luncheon. Dave, my writing […]
Hope and Heroism
Happy Friday! This week Mark Thompson, Talent Coordinator for Our Cartoon President, came to talk to my SVA class about writing for animation. Their writer’s room has nine writers. In a typical meeting, the writers brainstorm and then go off to work on the assigned episode by themselves, and then will be reviewed in the room. A big takeaway for […]
Lessons Learned from Children
Happy Friday! I hope that you all had a lovely Thanksgiving. I went to see family in Massachusetts. There were four children between the ages of two and four that I got to spend hours with. Watching them play and studying how they make up stories is very humbling. It’s clear to me that we […]
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