“Vigorous writing is concise.“
William Strunk Jr.
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Archive for July, 2008
The Six-Word Screenplay
Posted in screenwriting, tagged Blasie Pascal, Eric Roth, Ernest Hemingway, Forrest Gumo, Not Quite What I Was Planning, Raymond Chandler, screenwriting, Six-word memoirs, six-word story, Smith Magazine, The Elements of Style, William Strunk Jr. on July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Creative Learning 2.0
Posted in screenwriting, tagged Iowa, Orson Wells, Tom Peters, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Rodrigez, Douglas Kirkland, Jack Nicholson, Creative Cow, Ripple Training, DVX User, Lynda.com, AVID, FCP Suite, After Effects, Photoshop, Pro Tools, web compression, Clay P. Bedford, George Leonard, LAFCPUG, Lynda Weinman, John Wooden, Arnold Newman, Mary Ellen MarkMaine Media Workshops on July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.”
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How to Watch a DVD
Posted in screenwriting, tagged A Place in the Sun, AFI Greatest Films, Annie Spielberg, Barry Levinson, Big, Charles Van Doren, Dustin Hoffman, DVD commentaries, Elizabeth Taylors, entertainment, filmmaking, Finding Nemo, Frank Darabont, George Stevens, How to Read a Book, Mike Nichols, Mortimer J. Adler, movies, Oscars, Rain Man, Rembrand, Ron Bass, screenwriting, Shelly Winters, Steven Spielberg, The Graduate, The Shawshank Redemption, Tom Cruise, Van Gogh on July 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Years ago, philosophers Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren wrote a serious book called How to Read a Book. In it, they mentioned that unless you’d read a book three times, you really handn’t read the book. That is, you hadn’t digested the book. I wonder how many of the estimated 1.7 billion DVDs [...]
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