December 2004
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2004 In Retrospect
2004 was a big year, especially in terms of my writing. I won a fellowship for my first play, Goodbye Dolly and had it produced at Emerson, which was an amazing experience. I also submitted it for publication, the first time I’ve sent out a major work. I had my first legit publication on Graphic Novel Review. I read for the first and last time in the Emerson Graduate Reading series. I...
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Happy Holidays
I’m finally the proud owner of Final Draft. Now I can become a serious screenwriter. As soon as I actually get it installed. Which will be as soon as I have a stable computer. Which might take a while.
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Batman Begins
Normally I avoid movie spoilers whenever possible, but when a friend pointed me to the Batman Begins screenplay online, I had to read it. After the property went so far down the toilet with the last release, I have been a bit concerned about the upcoming movie. While I did find a few spots that could have been trimmed, I really liked it overall. It is the first time a non-animated film has really...
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That Big Step
I recently took a look at my second screenplay project I started at the beginning of this year. It was awful. I had the sort of disgust you usually only feel when looking at something you wrote many years ago, not eight months. But this week, I realized what changes I need to make to the storyline to make it work. Nothing huge, just stuff like tying more of the locations and backstories together...
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The Company We Keep
While in Boston, I’ve attended a number of Playwriting Workshop classes and readings. It’s been a lot of fun. Some of my old friends are in the class, there have been some really interesting plays, and my old professor Betsy keeps telling me how wonderful it is that I’m back (nothing like feeling useful since I had minimal work to do on my thesis.) Anyway, because I’m a...
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Something New
It’s so hard to find anything truly unique and original in writing these days. Therefore, I must congratulate my friend Alexander Danner for writing a play that includes (what I assume is) the world’s first pornographic quadratic equation.
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Comedy Of Errors
I can honestly say that I’ve certainly put characters through the ringer before, but I’ve never ever written anything comparable to what happened to me yesterday with my thesis. First was the six hours I spent panicking about how to pad my script to make it longer… I’d been informed that it needed to be 120 pages long and it was more like 107. After spending the entire...
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Oh Title, Where Art Thou?
I’ve been working on my thesis/first screenplay on and off for 2.5 years now, and while I’ve made a lot of progress, it is lacking one crucial element: a title. I’ve had a number of working titles since I started the project, but none have really encompassed the entire scope of the story. Some of the failed titles include the following: The Dangerous Lives Of Butlers (Joke title)...
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Thesis Defense
The entire concept of the thesis defense has never really seemed scary to me. In fact, I was looking forward to my MFA defense. A chance to talk about a project with people who actually want to hear the background info and the details on how certain decisions were made. I was a little nervous about pitching the movie but managed to get some really good ideas down before. I had no idea that the...