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		<title>Writing &#8220;Mud&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 18:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott W. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I just write character first. I put plot second.&#8221; Writer/Director Jeff Nichols (Mud) The reason I&#8217;ve spent all week writing about Jeff Nichols and/or his film Mud is not just because he is currently a screenwriter/filmmaker based outside of Los Angeles—but because I think Mud will end up with Oscar-nominations for Best Picture and best original [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2579752&#038;post=28216&#038;subd=screenwritingfromiowa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Screenwriting Quote #183 (Jeff Nichols)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 01:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott W. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I feel like when you write, you have to have a personal core to a story if you have any hope of it translating to an audience. There are certain emotions you have throughout your life that are palpable, you can feel them; they hurt. Every film I’ve made, I can point to one of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2579752&#038;post=28218&#038;subd=screenwritingfromiowa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jeff Nichols&#8217; Other Roots</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 14:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott W. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Duke's Center for Documentary Studies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;[Jeff Nichols] was way beyond most students with narrative. Of all the students I’ve seen in 10 years, he’s probably the best with just taking a story from beginning to middle and end. He was raised right, as we say in the South.&#8221; Filmmaker and Instructor Gary Hawkins (now at Duke&#8217;s Center for Documentary Studies) Storytelling Son of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2579752&#038;post=28196&#038;subd=screenwritingfromiowa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lost Love 101</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 12:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott W. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I wanted to bottle the pain of standing in a parking lot next to a Piggly Wiggly and having your heart broken.” Writer director Jeff Nichols on his film Mud  When a man loves a woman, he can&#8217;t keep his mind on nothing else He&#8217;ll trade the world for the good thing he&#8217;s found If she [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2579752&#038;post=28183&#038;subd=screenwritingfromiowa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Screenwriting from Arkansas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 14:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott W. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Love my ma, love my pa But I just love ole Arkansas Arkansas lyrics from the musical Big River &#8220;I remember I was in junior high school and I was going to write a short story about mobsters, or New York mobsters. I think I had just seen a Scorsese film. And I told my dad [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2579752&#038;post=28166&#038;subd=screenwritingfromiowa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>John, Paul, George and ?</title>
		<link>http://screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/john-paul-george-and/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 04:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott W. Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gene Simmons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James McCartney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KISS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rambo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There is no way I&#8217;d be doing what I do now if it wasn&#8217;t for The Beatles. I was watching the Ed Sullivan show and I saw them. Those skinny little boys, kind of androgynous, with long hair like girls. It blew me away that these four boys in the middle of nowhere could make [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2579752&#038;post=28152&#038;subd=screenwritingfromiowa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Quote #39 (Writing in Paris)</title>
		<link>http://screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/writing-the-lords-of-discipline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 00:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott W. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I was in Atlanta, Georgia and writer Pat Conroy was on my mind. On this road trip I&#8217;ve been listening to Conroy&#8217;s book on CD My Reading Life.  While he&#8217;s usually associated with South Carolina&#8217;s Lowcounty because many of his books (The Water is Wide, The Great Santini, South of Broad) are set in that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2579752&#038;post=28143&#038;subd=screenwritingfromiowa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Editing &#8220;Is&#8221; (Tip #72)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 04:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott W. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8221; In the active voice, the subject performs the action. In the passive voice, the subject is acted upon.&#8221; Constance Hale The Pleasures and Peril of the Passive/NY Times Driving through Tennessee today I spoke briefly on the phone with William Akers who lives in Nashville and wrote the book Your Screenplay Sucks! So I thought I&#8217;d tap into [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2579752&#038;post=28131&#038;subd=screenwritingfromiowa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Postcard #33 (Quincy, IL)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 05:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott W. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m on the tail end of a three week road trip working on a variety of video projects and I took the above picture at sunset this evening in Quincy, Illinois. The town sits on the Mississippi and no doubt was a stop for Mark Twain who came from Hannibal, Missouri just down river. Quincy [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2579752&#038;post=28117&#038;subd=screenwritingfromiowa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Filmmaker Les Blank (1935-2013)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 01:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott W. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I think he’s a national treasure.&#8221; Director Taylor Hackford on Les Blank  &#8220;As his work testifies, [Les]Blank has made a fine art out of making a personal connection with diverse people. He works through the lens, behind the camera, never drawing attention to himself. He makes friends with his subjects, spends weeks with them and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2579752&#038;post=28102&#038;subd=screenwritingfromiowa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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