Note 2022 September 5: I did submit, but later removed my script. I don’t believe the program is still open. This week I finished my changes to The Doorman’s Sacrifice and uploaded it to Amazon Studios. So far, I’ve had three people download the script and two people posted reviews. One controversy about the site… Read Article →
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Note 2022 September 5: I did submit, but later removed my script. I don’t believe the program is still open. I finished my changes to The Doorman’s Sacrifice and uploaded it to Amazon Studios. Please have a look. You need to sign up, but it is free. Don’t feel obligated to read it or comment… Read Article →
When I was young, I read every Doc Savage book I could get, and reread the ones I had several times. I learned later that the writer, Lester Dent, had turned out one 50,000-word Doc Savage book a month for over 14 years. Not only that, but Doc Savage accounted for about a quarter of… Read Article →
Note 2022 September 5: I did submit, but later removed my script. I don’t believe the program is still open. Over the last week, I prepared my script The Anger Trap to submit to Amazon Studios. I’m not quite done yet, but I’m close. It was much more work than I thought it would be…. Read Article →
Note 2022 September 5: I did submit, but later removed my script. I don’t believe the program is still open. Amazon has started a movie studio called Amazon Studios. Their idea is to crowd source scripts. People post their scripts on-line and then other people try to rewrite them to win prizes. They expect that… Read Article →
I finished the outline for Bright Freedom last week, and wrote 14 of the 42 scenes I identified. I expected that I would have a 90-page script by the end, but the scenes are shorter than I thought they would be. I may only get a 50-page script. I’ve had similar problems with my earlier… Read Article →
I enjoyed reading Malcolm Gladwell’s books Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking and Outliers: The Story of Success. I was disappointed when I read some criticism of these books. I wrote a short article to counter the criticism. Note: The original post has been taken down. If you are interested in reading the article,… Read Article →
Someone who read my script Then the Phone Rang, told me they thought the script was too short to be a feature. I planned to get some actors to do a read through sometime to get a better idea. This week I decided to try Natural Reader, a text to audio program (http://www.naturalreaders.com/ to time… Read Article →
I started on a new movie script this week. My other projects: My Most Difficult Case and Then the Phone Rang are hanging fire while I get some other people involved. I wanted to get to work on something, so I went back to a project, called Bright Freedom, which I’ve been playing with off… Read Article →
I got the second draft of my Then the Phone Rang script done. I didn’t make too many changes and I liked what I had written before. Maybe I am still too close to the material. My next step is to ask some people to read the script and tell me what they think. If… Read Article →
