Now, because even though most of you have NOT asked for it – in spite of the face that all of you need it, here’s my take on:
HOW NOT TO WRITE A SCRIPT
THE USUAL NOTE FROM LB: From the summer of 2002 to the spring of 2010, Gwen the Beautiful and I were the proud and often exhausted owners of a beautiful Ozarks property we called Cloud Creek Ranch.
In many ways, the ranch was paradise. But it was a paradise with a price that started going up before we even knew it existed. Here’s another Monday musing about our adventure and the lessons we learned.
In an era where screenwriting courses are rampant, available at your local adult school, junior college, university, vocational school, you-name-it, it’s easy to throw yourself into the study of format and technique.
TV Writer.Com, for example, is bombarded daily with questions about the “best” way to show scene transitions, the “most effective” way to write an action scene, and the “most subtle” way to “imply” rather than “state” a new shot.
(LB’S NOTE: Yep, the numbers are in. Here’s the headline on Indiewire.Com. “Oscars Ratings: 2021 Telecast Loses More Than Half Last Year’s Audience.” Someone on the Oscar show said that movies were what kept Americans going last year. But the facts seem to differ. We weren’t going to the movies. Hell, we couldn’t. We all were watching TV.)
…And you can read about the winners just about anywhere on the web. There’s a mighty fine full list here:
THE USUAL NOTE FROM LB: From the summer of 2002 to the spring of 2010, Gwen the Beautiful and I were the proud and often exhausted owners of a beautiful Ozarks property we called Cloud Creek Ranch.
In many ways, the ranch was paradise. But it was a paradise with a price that started going up before we even knew it existed. Here’s another Monday musing about our adventure and the lessons we learned.