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...from April to September. Doesn't sound good, does it?I was so looking forward to the adaptation of The Nanny Diaries. Really. Loved the book, lots of heart.But then.. Scarlett Johansson, really? Couldn't quite see that.And then... The trailer. The trailer that announces it to open "this spring", mind you. Here it is...Can you feel my pain? Maybe a miracle will happen between "this spring" and

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I'm not going to discuss the fact that altruism doesn't exist and that any Gutmensch gets something out of whatever good deed they're doing. Nope. This is about reading and reviewing unproduced screenplays (posted to the net by pros as well as unsold writers) for YOUR benefit.Screenplays that show that the writer knows the basics, of course. You don't learn anything from discussing - for the

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Finally - new laptop! Yeah! Means that I'll be able to blog regularly and do stuff I previously wasn't able to do. Maybe there's a reader still checking up on this blog?For this one reader, there's this R-rated thingy...I noticed that I missed the Screenwriter Blog-A-Thon while I was checking out my new toy... Guess I'll blog about my fave scripts in upcoming posts.Happy Easter!

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My pc was (is) acting up and b/c I need it for things other than blogging, posting wasn't a priorrity. I'll get a laptop soon and am researching what's out there now. Whooeee, fun stuff! I can't afford a Mac, but at least it will have Vista on it and I'll be able to do what I want to do when I want to do it. I'm soooo excited!

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RitaI have to get ready... I'll meet with a friend andtry to survive the day.Oops. Rita, my father's widow. She's one of THEM -- unattached adults who have a problem with Christmas. We say good-bye and for a moment I wonder if I should analyze why I'm not feeling anything. Like, empathy or at least guilt about not feeling bad. I shrug and decide it's okay to feel okay. After all, I told her that

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My house is clean, the laundry done, I'm blogging. This raises one question: what exactly is it that I should be doing but don't? Yep, I'm procrastinating. Big time. Before you get all holier than thou on me.... One word: taxes. Plus, I'm positive I've got to pay. My rather obvious way of preventing myself from doing the nasty task is to do all the other tasks I don't like but still prefer over

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Christ. I feel like this whole damned year they've been sticking needles in me, ultrasounded me, x-rayed different body parts and I'm not exactly feeling oh-so-much better. Let me clarifiy: the meds have given me a different set of symptoms. Like, ah, pain. Don't worry, that's just from the water I'm retaining now, says my doc, and I should just cut the dosage of one of the meds in half, no

A. M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03377852337454923971noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25941163.post-1158952969267518132006-09-22T11:35:00.000-07:002006-09-22T12:23:13.606-07:00

New dates for those who enjoy to speedwrite in virtual groups:14 Day Screenplay (screenwriting, duh)This round will take place Sept. 30 - Oct. 13.Nanowrimo 2006 (novels)Novel Writing Month is November! Click on link and sign up for a nice email-reminder.Several non-fiction translations kept me rather busy this month.Drugs, drugs everywhere. Argh. I entered the drugstore today and what was the

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Seriously, what the hell happened? I can't even express how ticked off I am....Is it really too much to ask that someone reads over the galleys, perhaps even someone who speaks the language and - yeah, I know, now we're entering the land of witches and fairies - has the ability to spot a typo or that there's an apostroph that doesn't belong?I thought publishers used to employ people who did just

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I've read some mediocre - okay, one was godawful - best! selling! books. Cover to cover. What, you say? Has she lost her edge? Marbles gone fishing or what?The lesson: P-L-O-TIt's king, it's queen, it's everything.If you had only those two choices: would you rather read a boring, non-moving book (or watch..... film) where nothing much happens, say, other than on 5 or 6 plot points but it has sort

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I don't get people who don't read. Seriously. I can't imagine a life without reading. Hell, I don't want to imagine it. I read a variety of genres. From pulp stuff to literary fiction. Yep, it ain't all Woolf, Camus, Gide, Suter et al all the frigging time. (Don't believe me? What has jet-black hair and green eyes? No, guess again. Nope, next try. Okay, I tell you: one of Jackie Collins'*

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You can't build that airport there.We have to.Hm. Okay, but no planes on Sundays.Here's the flight schedule.60 planes during my 90-minute sermon? Can this be?We're building it because we need it, you see?No planes on Sundays. Or else.What are we going to do with those 60 flights?Tell people to attend the service instead.Yeah, right. No, seriously now.We'll sue.Yeah, right. (laughs)Dot, get me

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"I'll fly to Frankfurt, rent a car, visit Annemone, drive to Karlsruhe to stay with Chris for a couple of days or so, then I'm off to Cologne where I'll stay in Suzie's guest room. Then I'll drive up to Hamburg to see you, Chris will come, too. The rest of the time I'll be in Berlin from where I'll fly back to Seattle. Arrive back here in the morning and will attend my first lecture in the

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I'm alive;) Just barely, though, b/c I had to shift priorities towards selling more of my time for actual $$. C'est la vie for a single orphan w/out the ties that may form a security net - financially or otherwise.It's election time and with it come political opinion polls that may or may not awaken the delusional. 'Tis the time of spin-masters and manipulators, of sound-bytes and one-answer

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A while back I've read a script whose Act 1 - the whole set-up of characters and situation, conflict - made it seem to be utterly predictable. I continued reading despite the sea of red flags mainly because the writer is a pretty good writer so I wanted to see where this was going. Stop. I didn't just continue reading. I scrolled down and read the last two pages. It didn't go where I had feared

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The plan was clear and quite simple: let script A (romcom) sit in the drawer. Rework outline of B (thrillerish) start translating and adapting it into novel form, see how that goes (well. Great benefit.). Rewrite B. Get feedback. While waiting for feedback, rework outline of A, b/c it's just not working (too long, subplotitis etc). Rewrite A. While waiting for feedback on A, consider notes for B,

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While it's the same-old-same-old out (read: unbearable heatwave, 90+ and no A/C thankyouverymuch), change is happening elsewhere. Re: Links: They got lost during conversion together with my prog bars. Uggboots. All should be back up within a week. Don't worry, this blog will stay advertising-free. No paid product-placements and especially no paid product pics. I'm not blogging for money.My job is

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Having a crappy day or even a crappy week? Watch a movie where stuff gets blown up and people have to run, jump, crawl, climb, swim, dive or kill an innocent nice guy in order to survive. Watch Poseidon. This works. I'm not kidding. This isn't even tongue in cheek. Nope, I came out of the theater with a big grin on my face. It was an epiphany. I went in expecting nothing. Okay, perhaps some notes

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Little Red Riding Hood has a Va-gina Dentata. Who knew?

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I think it was Jane Espenson who recently blogged about writing emotional beats and how they can affect you as you sit there on your keyboard. She said she knows people who cry while they write. No shit.I remember when I wrote a scene where my lead girl hears the last words of her man who offed himself. Boy. Half a box of Kleenex. I don't know if it's because I use compound characters or why the

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