Adapting material, especially a book, into a screenplay presents numerous challenges. Often the desire to take passages and include them in the screenplay is powerful. As the writing was germane to understanding the story and contains critical information, it therefore needs to be used. How can I leave out something as important as this? You […]
While I’m not really a fan of natural disasters they do have their place in the order of things. Periodically tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunami, volcanoes, floods, drought, politicians, etc., swoop down on us and wreak havoc with the normal day-to-day insanity we have created for ourselves and call life. But for writers, especially writers stuck between […]
The vast majority of screenplays I hear worked through the Lab have at least one thing in common. Many of them have narrative or descriptive passages that need to be cut down significantly. Screenplays are about economy of expression and making each word pull its’ own weight. Many descriptions of events or narrative passages about […]
I laughed, hard. The anecdotes the guy was telling me were really funny. It was almost hard to believe the stories were true, but they were. The fact that they were about the antics of the residents of a facility for Alzheimer’s patients made it all the more unbelievable. The guy who lived on the […]
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