Category: creativity
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Story Q&A: When should budget limit my film’s genre?
One of the questions that has come up in Free Lance Friday was posed by a screenwriter and filmmaker: when should my budget limit my story? The answer is either always or never, but not both. First, “never.” Your budget, as a screenwriter, should never limit your story when you write to sell your screenplay.…
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October 11th ~ Free Lance Friday!
Friday, October 11th, I will give away my writing services: Free copy for businesses. Free old-school, blue-pencil editing for writers. Free coaching for non-trad storytellers like filmmakers and public speakers. Need to see my portfolio first? Go to LinkedIn. If you’re not a current client, start sending in your stuff now before the line…
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On Your Calling in Life
No one, not even Milton, ever made a living off of writing good poetry. Only those who were patronized by the rich could ever afford to do only poetry, but even then they did not generate an income off of the sale of their poetry. That’s a historical “never,” which are pretty hard to come…
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Creativity Prompt: Incarcerate
In which I attempt to prompt creativity from a readership of creatives…
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Missing Lemony Snicket?
Have you seen these around town? This campaign combines two of my favorite things: innovative marketing and literature. See, I hate ads unless they’re really really good. My dad used to hang these things up all the time to sell things or to distribute information, but to use one for a bestselling YA series?! Oh…
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Engineers use SciFi writers to revive American Innovation
Hieroglyph is a space for SciFi writers, engineers, scientists, and artists to collaborate on creative, ambitious visions of the near-future. Neal Stephenson noticed a serious void in the optimism of science so he helped create an online collaborative between the people who dream things up and the people who make dreams real. Right now, they’ve…
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Left Brain/Right Brain Visualized
You’ll want to click on the pic to magnificate the words and images. Originally here.
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Sitting at the feet of : The Spirit in The Song
In which I interview the band Eine Blume on how they capture the spirit of a moment in music.
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Becoming Sons and Daughters (a documentary)
This film features the issue of fatherlessness in our culture. Watch it and then let’s talk about the issues in the comments as I’m curious for your thoughts.
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Blog: An Onomatopoeia for Vomit
You should love more than you hate, since this world’s filled with far more good than evil. That said, I hate few things, but one is this word “blog.” Oh, I get how it came about. People started creating new pages on a website back in the late eighties (post-Usenet) to create a log of…
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Blueprint (a CHCC video)
Wrote up a quick poem for a bumper video. This was for College Heights’ videographer, Joseph Lang. Poem below.
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New Film Shoot and Explanation of }{ Symbol
Two quick things: I have begun production on a new film shoot with the fabulous Mark Neuenschwander of 9artphoto. We will turn it into a novella of words and pictures, first on a new blog and then (hopefully) on some sort of mixed-media iPad app. I took the left picture on set and the right…