Extreme Frenzy
So I got my email from the people over at ScriptFrenzy.org the other day — a little reminder that this year’s Frenzy is starting up on April 1. I highly suggest the two of you reading participate. You can pretend you’re a big shot with a deadline for a month, maybe even going as far as hiring a writer’s assistant to throw hot coffee at when you’re losing your mind on April 29. Let me explain:
Evolution of a Screenplay: the Logline
I’m on break, which means: plenty of time for a new post! Woo. So here it is, the first installment of Evolution of a Screenplay. In today’s episode, I’ll be talking about quite possibly the cheesiest part of screenwriting: the logline. I know it’s necessary. I do. It just always feels like I’m writing it for some Danielle Steele-type B-novel that tries way too hard to get your attention in the checkout line at Stop ‘n Shop. But hey: screenwriting is a business after all, and the script a product. So these are the loglines I toyed with on my way to finding the one that worked:
There Will Be Tangents
So I wrote a sort of “review” for There Will Be Blood way back in January when it was still a newborn. I meant to have the blog up and running back then.
…That was three months ago. Unfortunately, my review of Blood is now a little out of date. There’s nothing that I wrote in January that hasn’t been written since. But there were a few sections I wanted to put up anyway — little tangents inspired by the movie and Paul Thomas Anderson.
