Posts under ‘Writing’

The mom set the large disposable plastic ware container on the table, its contents brimming with glistening violet red grapes. “Do you want one?” she offered, I took one or two, not wishing to be greedy… Within moments they decended on the container… several children, its difficult to say how many, I could count them [...]

You know what’s entertaining, Carole, do what’s entertaining to you”  Glen Keane, Director of Disney’s Rapunzel. Glen had said that to me years before when I asked him how to make something entertaining.  It was a lesson that I was perpetually in need of remembering, and no was no different.   That I had bricked [...]

Until recently, the desktops of my computer monitors each had a picture of Maximus the Spaniard on them ostensibly to remind me of where I had started.    I learned that from a friend of mine, Donovan Cook, creator of “Two Stupid Dogs”.  Whenever he got on a project, he wrote down the original idea and [...]

I started a new screenplay with the hope of being one those folks that could sit down and bang out a script in a weekend–well, I’d read that a John Favareau had done that for the incredibly entertaining and fun movie “Swingers”… at least I think it was a weekend… hmm– maybe it was a week– [...]