Stories from a seasoned screenwriter. Take heart! Your creative source is infinite and un-ending. Sometimes Hollywood just rips up the roadmap back to it. The bottom line is that Hollywood is not at all as bad as it sounds. Additionally, it's worse than you can imagine. Remember to pack a sense of humor.
I am a screenwriter living in Southern California. I've written screenplays for most of the Hollywood studios over the past 20 years. One of the uncredited writers of FANTASTIC FOUR, I wrote FIRE DOWN BELOW starring Steven Seagal, and the TV Movie 12:01 PM starring Martin Landau and MANEATER with Gary Busey. I have directed short films. I have written on numerous Hollywood studio assignments, some for big shot actors, some for small shot nobodies.
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Why Screenwriter Bones? Because if you don't feel it in your bones, if you don't have the need to write as much as you have the need to eat, set the compas on anything else but West and keep yourself a good 600 miles out of town.
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The infinite follows our desires. Our only job is to Seek to Know
--“There are three rules to the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.” -- Somerset Maughm
posted by Phil | 11:35 AM
2 Comments:
Congrats, my friend! And if I may make a comment from the production backwaters regarding a comment you made two posts ago: When you're in this business, it doesn't matter if you're working on a 9 figure movie or a four figure commercial, the most frustrating thing that can happen is when the client sez: "I don't know what I want, I only know I don't want THAT."
Yeharr
Great article. Thanks for the link and the story behind the story.
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