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 →
I did a little clean up work on My Most Difficult Case. I noticed some visual glitches in the film: spots, dust, light flashes, and stuff like that. I used the composite feature to replace the parts of the image where the problems were. I’m not sure that anyone would notice, but since I did,… Read Article →
