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.
Two recent news stories point out the complexity of my favorite city on the Olympic Peninsula.
Yep, I’m talking about Port Townsend, Washington, where Gwen the Beautiful and I moved ourselves, our belongings, and many of our animals, almost eleven years ago, shortly after I had a heart attack and quintuple bypass surgery.
We loved our mountain near the Ozark Mountains town I call Paradise in a certain newspaper column reprinted here at TVWriter™ every Monday. (The most recent one being HERE.) We loved “Paradise and environs,” and we love Port Townsend and its neighbors as well.
Beginning writers, accustomed to thinking of all stories in terms of the three act structure of beginning, middle, and end, often make the mistake of believing that the scenes within their teleplays and screenplays must also have beginnings, middles, and ends.
While it’s certainly true that scenes need to build to a specific point or effect, don’t forget to make use of another old homily: Less is more!
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.
One of the most difficult tasks for any writer, new or old, is editing.
In TV and films, the ability to edit your teleplay or screenplay is crucial. There are many good reasons for writing tersely and tightly, but one of the least understood is the fact that part of the magic of film and tape is that they expand time.