Writing For Screens
Glenn GersAn old screenwriter -- and new novelist -- sharing the process of creative writing in a time of chaos and possibility. Skills, tools, observations and explorations.
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You Are Not A Business
The Industry is currently in a breathless frenzy because two low-budget horror films by young directors who started on YouTube have made a lot of money.
The reason for the frenzy: a lot of money. Not keeping budgets low, or being 20 years...
WFS Recommends: "This American Life"
Seriously: this radio/podcast series is one of the most important and finest literary masterpieces of our time. It may be the funniest, saddest, true-est collection of tales and insights since Shakespeare, the unrecognized epic of 21st Cent...
WFS Recommends: "Brewster McCloud" (1970)
Robert Altman’s default setting is: attack. But he slashes, mocks and flays in an oddly laid-back style -- which may make him the truest filmmaker of the 1960s and 1970s, when America was both on top of the world and falling apart.
And his...
Rearranging Deck Chairs?
This is fairly procedural, so feel free to skip to the “lesson” at the end.
Reading through the rough draft, I mostly saw how much the text needs work. But the words were, at least, there and the job is just taking a page-full of them and...
You Are Not Lazy
“Am I burned-out, lazy, or is there something else? Is there a way to help me see if it’s one or the other?” (from the comments section of my YouTube channel.)
The writer asking this question writes every single day, many pages, working on...
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Retired screenwriter, sometime online screenwriting teacher, impending novelist.
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