Two time Regional Emmy Winner. Author of the blog https://teapaw.org/t.co/sr8L6F9iGr and the book "Screenwriting with Brass Knuckles."
Orlando, Florida
Joined May 2009
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“This is how you make a viral video: All you have to do is create a visceral response in the viewer. They have to feel happy...amazed/shocked/angry... You just have to feel something... That’s it. That’s the trick.” — @MarkRober @ColinandSamir interview wp.me/paP6U-l6n
“When [Screenwriter John August] started his blog, his idealized reader was a kid in Iowa who was curious about screenwriting but had no good way to learn about it.” —#Scriptnotes book introduction wp.me/paP6U-l3v
The Perfect Script (According to #Blackish creator Kenya Barris wp.me/paP6U-l0U
Jerry Seinfeld on the writer of #AChristmasStory : “I learned how to do comedy from #JeanShepherd.” Interview with @QuentinSchultze on his book “You'll Shoot Your Eye Out!: Life Lessons From the Movie A Christmas Story.”
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“Take delight if one person gets value from your content today.” —@garyvee Celebrating a small victory and remembering that “Content Creating is a Marathon.”wp.me/paP6U-kVg
Over 100 years of film history (in 35 seconds) to pound the drum on the importance of conflict in storytelling. #screenwriting #filmmaking #joker youtube.com/shorts/Pt3u3mJj5…
“Writing Good Bad Guys & Girls” (Mostly been off Twitter the past year as I work on the YouTube thing. Here's a little 16 second video based on a favorite quote from the William Akers (@ProfAkers) book "Your #Screenplay Sucks!" youtube.com/shorts/pJ3Ql_vxa…
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A streamlined and stripped to the bone filmmaking approach that's not for everyone, but definitely worked for this production. Love this film!
Robert Towne (1934-2024): From Commercial Fisherman to Oscar Winning #Screenwriter. What a country. #Happy4thofJuly wp.me/paP6U-kQX
Postcard #228 (@ApalachicolaFL) ...and some interesting history from "The Forgotten Coast" of Florida that included the French and Indian War, Union occupation during The Civil War, and training for amphibious warfare prior to D-Day.
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“When you’re working on the kind of stuff that I do, it’s a knife fight. You’re intentionally small. You don’t operate with big crews.” Cinematographer Mo Fallon @diamondmofallon @tferriss wp.me/paP6U-ky7
Remembering Storyteller #GordonLightfoot (1938-2023) & the Only Time I Ever Had a Front and Center Concert Seat wp.me/paP6U-kxq
“I have a graveyard of unproduced screenplays too”—@airmovie #Screenwriter @alexconvery interview with @vulture wp.me/paP6U-kwB
Elephant Dreams (and Dinosaurs Nightmares) with Scott Beck and Bryan Woods @beckandwoods #Filmmaking #screenwriters
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From Guide Rock, Nebraska to Hollywood — #Screenwriter and UCLA professor Lew Hunter (1935-2023) wp.me/paP6U-kvg
“17-Year-Old YouTuber Set To Direct Hollywood Feature Film” wp.me/paP6U-ktR
“@Casey Neistat's YouTube Success in Just One Word—Interestingness.” (That's a great place to start.) wp.me/paP6U-ktG
“Everything needs to be edited.... My entire career is I cut it down to a little less than you really wanted. When was the last time you saw a movie and though, ‘Gee, I wish it was a little longer’? Never.”
—Jerry Seinfeld
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"Celebrating 15 Years of Writing the ‘Screenwriting from Iowa... and Other Unlikely Place’ Blog By Boiling the Essence of Screenwriting—Maybe Life—Down to Just 15 Words" wp.me/paP6U-ksS
A Classic Old Scene from “The Shining,” Scott Beck & Bryan Woods' (@beckandwoods) New Book “Haunt” —and Their Plans to Open a Movie Theater in Iowa #screenwriting #filmmaking wp.me/paP6U-koc