november online screenwriting classes ahoy

Coming November 6th: AFW online master screenwriting classes Dynamic Writing, The First 30 Pages, and High Concept Writing.

Taught by yours truly, November classes address how to open a script well, how to make a scripted story move on screen, and how to strengthen concept in completed scripts and in concepts in development.

 

*Please register early to reserve your seat in class: http://theafw.com

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*View the full upcoming 2018/2019 AFW Course Roster :::HERE:::

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*Read testimonials :::HERE:::

 

max stage 32 next level webinar november 15

Yours truly is teaming up with Stage 32 again to bring you a new Stage 32 Next Level Webinar: Mastering Story Momentum: How to Jump Start Dramatic Tension & Pacing.

Here’s the intro clip.

 

Hope you can make it.

 

Smooches.

 

~ m

 

:::FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE MASTERING STORY MOMENTUM WEBINAR::

 

september!

 

September is mildly crazed because I have two weeks off in late August early September between AFW classes to do just about everything I don’t have time to do while AFW classes are in session. So, it’s time off — with no time off.

 

This is not a bad thing. Part of what I need to do between classes is re-watch movies for classes and such. And also catch up on movies. Oh the horror! [Not really. This is part of the best part of my job.]

 

Classes do start back up September 13th and I should tell you about those. On the horizon, High Concept Writing AND The First 30 Pages. You should check them out.

 

 

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best movie review in history of the worldz

 

 

This is the funnest most bestest movie review ever. And totally the kind of movie review I would write if I could write movie reviews. Which I can’t because if you do that everyone in Hollywood gets mad and you can never work again. Probably even posting THIS movie review will get me black listed somewhere.

[Shut up, Hollywood. It is funny.]

 

I saw Tarzan and this is my review after some wines
~ by Emily from the blog EmilyWrites


So I had wine and I am very tired and so I am a bit tipsy but I saw the Tarzan movie so I thought I’d give my honest review.
Excuse typos because you know, wines.

Ok so I don’t know what the plot is or who is in it other than Alexander Skarsgard and Alexander Skarsgard’s magnificent holy abs. I don’t know what the dialogue or acting is like or whatever.

But like 1/3 of the way in Alexander Skarsgard is going to fight a gorilla for some reason and he takes off his shirt and OMG LIKE I ACTUALLY GROANED LOUDLY.
He does not put his shirt back on for the whole movie.

And like The V. sweet mother Mary the V I am telling you. The v is worth $15. The V is worth so much I wanted to see the movie again straight afterward.
Did I say that he doesn’t put his shirt back on?


:::continue reading:::

 

suicide squad!

 

Friend: “I think your spirit animal might just be Harley Quinn.”

Me: “Doy.”

 

 

happy groundhog day

 

 

online january screenwriting classes ahoy

webinar frenzy!

 

My Next Level Webinar with Stage 32 “Crash Course: High Concept Writing” went well yesterday.

Thanks to everyone who came out for that. Yay! Or maybe I should say stayed in for that? Thanks for coming.

If you could not catch that live [crazy person!] you can still catch the clip :::HERE:::

 

 

entertainment for a mind tired of murder

 

I am so tired of stories about serial killers. And about murders. And about murderers. And about cops hunting serial killers and murderers. And about lawyers trying murderers and proving murderers murdered people. And about terrorists. And about kidnappers. And about death and people hunting other people and people who kill other people and just — I am wrung out by and exhausted by murder as entertainment.

So I’ve been watching other things.

News Radio. Black Books. Beginners. Chalet Girl. About A Boy.

A lot of the time when I am working I have something playing background while I work so it does not matter that I have seen it before. It is keeping me company. And I cannot fall asleep alone in total silence. The shows keep me company then too.

Tonight I thought, Wow, I really need a list of shows and movies that are not about people killing people.

So that’s the start of my list. News Radio. Black Books. Beginners. About A Boy. Also The Station Agent and Wristcutters, A Love Story. Though people could argue there is death in there some places, it isn’t murder.

Feel free to add to my list in comments.

 

in max news

 

In Max news, I just finished a short story for an anthology and turned it in. It’s a fantasy anthology and was really fun writing for. It’s coming out in January but I don’t know whether I’m supposed to be talking a lot about it in public yet so more on that later.

Am working on a short clip for a proposed Stage 32 webinar. Director and my co-writer on the Sanitarium pilot Kerry Valderamma is helping me shoot that but he has cantered back to his acting roots and is appearing in a play right now which may slow us down. If you’re in San Antonia, Medea is playing Thursday through Sunday all through November at The Classic Theater of San Antonio.

Also gearing up for AFW classes that roll open this coming Tuesday. Structural Writing has a couple seats open if anyone is wanting to brush up on their structure work. I’d love to put a couple more talented people in those seats before the class rolls open. The stronger the group is, the stronger the class is. More on that at http://theafw.com/structural-writing