“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 | No Comments »
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 | No Comments »
“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 movies, entertainment, screenwriting, filmmaking, Oscars, Frank Darabont, Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise, Dustin Hoffman, Rain Man, Ron Bass, Van Gogh, The Shawshank Redemption, The Graduate, Mike Nichols, George Stevens, A Place in the Sun, Finding Nemo, Mortimer J. Adler, Rembrand, AFI Greatest Films, Barry Levinson, DVD commentaries, Elizabeth Taylors, Shelly Winters, How to Read a Book, Charles Van Doren, Big, Annie Spielberg on July 2, 2008 | 2 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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