Top Ten Viewed Posts

If you were wondering why the daily posts last week seemed to come out only late at night, last week was one of those 80 work weeks. I was field producing for a national client with a nondisclosure agreement and all.  (Maybe I should check to see if I’m allowed to disclose that I signed a nondisclosure.) Anyway, this is when it would have been good to have a stash of posts to pull out.

But that’s not how we roll here at Screenwriting from Iowa. This ain’t a factory. It’s more like wandering in the desert looking for manna for the day.  But in light of my first Kickstarter campaign I thought I’d review my stat area and reveal the most viewed Screenwriting from Iowa posts of all time:

1) How Much Do Screenwriters Make? 
2) Frank Gehry on Creativity
3) Writing “Black Hawk Down”
4) Average Length of a Movie Scene (tip # 21)
5) About Emmy-Winning Blog
6) Screenwriting and Three Cups of Tea
7) Up in the Air—The Novel vs. The Film
8  Mark Twain
9) Starting Your Screenplay (Tip #6)
10) Screenwriting Jamaican—Olympic Style 

I guess if I had more time I could analyze that list a bit, but I’m glad to see the post Starting Your Screenplay from just over two months into starting this blog in 2008 and the post Mark Twain that is just a few months old on the list. Maybe the biggest surprise on the list and the one that resonates at the core with what this blog is about is the post Screenwriting Jamaican—Olympic Style. About how focusing on one area can lead to greatest.

That’s my hope for this blog, that no matter where you live that it will help inspire you to greatness.  (And the results will be a good script—and a good movie. No small task.) And it is rather cumbersome to wade through the more than 1,000 posts that I’ve written, which is why I’m hoping to turn this blog into a book. It’s a way to pick the best and most concise posts as a way capture the essence of this blog in a way to keep writers on course. 

But I need your help to make this a reality. Please consider joining my Kickstarter campaign. I just need a couple people to help push me over the next plateau. 

Scott W. Smith