the character course

 

Jan 5 —

January 5 SeeMaxRun Characterization Workshop :

The 6 Week Character Workshop begins Tuesday January 5th. This is an online 6 week advanced course on characterization taught by yours truly Max Adams. Subjects include introductions [aka authorial intrusion is your friend]; protagonists vs. antagonists; using point of view characters; defining characters through action & tension; likable vs. empathetic characters; maintaining interest withholding character details; illuminating character through subplots; and if we have time we may throw a kitchen sink in there too.

 

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Course fee is $240. Course length is 6 weeks. Seating is limited. Send email for course sign up info to : courses @ seemaxrun.com

[You must type out the above email address without the spaces --- we are trying to outwit spam bandits here.]

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:::more info:::

 

bunkers need feng shui too dammit

 

I keep wondering —

What I would do if I didn’t write for Hollywood any more? I almost do not write for Hollywood anymore. I have been working years to make this one movie happen and it looks a little bleak on that front. So I could real soon be chalking up more years of my life making a movie happen that, hello, does not happen.

[Wow does that suck. Hollywood I so wish I could quit you.]

I keep coming back to feng shui.

 

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I am not sure being a feng shui person would get me a spot in any bunkers if WWIII broke out. I am not even sure feng shui is a profession the international community wants to import if I tried to make a run for the border. But feng shui is something I am good at.

 

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Bunkers need feng shui too dammit.

 

 

sufi

 

A small —

Unidentified flying insect is buzzing around the computer. Making me crazy. Get away from my screen. Get away from my face. Get away from my beverage. I am trying to work!

I snatch it out of the air.

This surprises me AND the small unidentified flying insect.

 

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I let it loose on the balcony.

Any insect that inspires that kind of hand eye coordination deserves to live.

 

where the art work comes from :
that is from chez elan

last minute class opening

 

This class was full but —

There is a last minute seat opening in The November 7 class [which starts tomorrow] :

Beating the Second Act Slump : 6 Week Workshop begins Saturday November 7th. This is an online 6 week advanced course on screenplay structure taught by yours truly Max Adams. Subjects include breaking the first 30 pages into two acts; Understanding set up; The 15 page escalation; Achieving story climax; Correcting the second act Field model; And more importantly — Beating the Second Act Slump.

 

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Course fee is $240. Course length is 6 weeks. Seating is limited. For course sign up email : courses @ seemaxrun.com

You must type out the above email address without the spaces —

We are trying to outwit spam bandits.

 

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:::more info:::

 

last call november class

 

Finalizing the course roster for —

The November 7 class so this is last call :

Beating the Second Act Slump : 6 Week Workshop begins Saturday November 7th. This is an online 6 week advanced course on screenplay structure taught by yours truly Max Adams. Subjects include breaking the first 30 pages into two acts; Understanding set up; The 15 page escalation; Achieving story climax; Correcting the second act Field model; And more importantly — Beating the Second Act Slump.

 

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Course fee is $240. Course length is 6 weeks. Seating is limited. For course sign up email : courses @ seemaxrun.com

You must type out the above email address without the spaces —

We are trying to outwit spam bandits.

 

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:::more info:::

 

5150 has open chair

 

There is a chair —

Open in the 5150 online screenwriting workshop founded and run by yours truly. Anyone interested should check the info at :::workshop::: read the entirety of the information and if still interested, email yours truly.

I look forward to hearing from you.

 

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*ps yes i know exactly what 5150 means thank you for writing me en masse [ahhh!] what else do you call a person with a talent and a pen but a danger to self & others now go use your inky powers for good instead of evil

 

where the art work comes from :
that is from the scattered image

beating the second act slump

 

We interrupt politics for —

Beating the Second Act Slump : 6 Week Workshop begins Saturday November 7th. This is an online 6 week advanced course on screenplay structure taught by yours truly Max Adams. Subjects include breaking the first 30 pages into two acts; Understanding set up; The 15 page escalation; Achieving story climax; Correcting the second act Field model; And more importantly — Beating the Second Act Slump.

 

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Course fee is $240. Course length is 6 weeks. Seating is limited. For course sign up email : courses @ seemaxrun.com

You must type out the above email address without the spaces —

We are trying to outwit spam bandits.

 

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:::more info:::

 

the structure course

 

November 7 —

November 7 SeeMaxRun Structure Workshop :

Beating the Second Act Slump : 6 Week Workshop begins Saturday November 7th. This is an online 6 week advanced course on screenplay structure taught by yours truly Max Adams. Subjects include breaking the first 30 pages into two acts; Understanding set up; The 15 page escalation model; Achieving a real story climax; Deconstructing & fixing the 60 page Field second act model; Beating the second act slump.

 

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Course fee is $240. Course length is 6 weeks. Seating is limited. Send email for course sign up info to : courses @ seemaxrun.com

[You must type out the above email address without the spaces -- we are trying to outwit spam bandits.]

 

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:::more info:::

 

5150 has chair open

 

There is a chair —

Open in the 5150 online screenwriting workshop founded and run by yours truly. Anyone interested should check the info at :::workshop::: read the entirety of the information and if still interested, email yours truly.

I look forward to hearing from you.

 

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*ps yes i know exactly what 5150 means thank you for writing me en masse [ahhh!] what else do you call a person with a talent and a pen but a danger to self & others now go use your inky powers for good instead of evil

 

where the art work comes from :
that is from the scattered image

reality receding

 

 

This is —

The most brilliant and accurate sum up of the current U.S. condition that I have seen.

 

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Reality Receding
By James Howard Kunstler

Now that everybody in the USA, from the janitors in their man-caves to the president addressing congress, has declared the “recession” over, is exactly the moment when what’s left of the so-called economy is most likely to implode. If there were still shoeshine boys on Wall Street, they’d be starting their own hedge funds now, and CNBC’s Larry Kudlow would be toasting them in the Grill Room of The Four Seasons. What we’ve seen in the vaunted rally for the last six months is the triumph of wishing over facts, combined with the most arrant market manipulation by floundering banks backstopped by a panicked government — all pounding sand down a rat-hole of hopeless non-performing debt, while pretending that the machinery of capital finance still grinds on.

Despite what a few elderly Mr. Naturals may say about abolishing “capitalism,” we’re not going to have an advanced economy without a coherent banking system, and by advanced economy I mean one in which the lights stay on. By coherent I mean a system that is able to deploy accumulated wealth for productive purposes, in the service of continuing civilization. [And, yes, I know that the followers of Daniel Quinn are not so sure that civilization is worth the trouble, but unless you support the killing-off of about six billion humans right away, things on Earth are not favorably disposed just now for a return to hunting-and-gathering.]

I would hasten to cut through the fog of despair to reassert — for the thousandth time — that a true American perestroika is possible, if the public could overcome the plague of cognitive dissonance sweeping the land and form a consensus for action that comports with reality’s agenda. But that is looking less and less likely. Instead, what we see is a rush into delusion, seasoned with grievance and gall. Spectacles like last weekend’s march on Washington don’t happen for no reason, of course. From where I sit, the uproar can be attributed to comprehensively bad American leadership, a crisis in authority and legitimacy that has left a functional vacuum in every executive office throughout the land — from the White House to the state houses, to the lairs of the CEOs, to the towers of the deans and department chairs, to the glitzy sets of the nightly news deliverers, to the makeshift quarters of the NGO chiefs. In former times, clueless and impotent leaders —

 

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:::continue reading:::

 

 

where that essay comes from :
that is from james howard kunstler at clusterfuck nation

where the art work comes from :
that is all i wanted for christmas by edward olive romantic