Thoughts on the film The Answer Man by John Hindman: Fathers as theme and the Monomyth.
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Arlen Faber and the Hero’s Journey Comments Off
Patterns and character behavior based on the hero’s goal structure. 2
[It should be noted that most of this is derived from work done by Michael Hauge's Screenwriting for Hollywood]. The character types and goals are his, the patterns are something I derived. The patterns are flexible and shouldn’t be considered an exhaustive resource.
The following are the most common external goals:
EG.A) Hero’s goal is to win [...]
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Tagged: screenwriting, the process, writing
Brainstorming map Comments Off
This is the start of a mind map I’m working on. Its purpose is to help me make sure I’ve covered all the things I feel are important to get a complete story covered. This is a little too verbose for something like a short story, but would be ideal for a shorter novel or [...]
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Screenwriting? Yep, screenwriting. 1
It’s the day before Thanksgiving. I should be getting ready to go to the day job where I’m fighting with my antique operating system to load a stupid service pack so I can get magic application development.
What have I been doing with myself lately?
Well, the novel was fail. Total fail. Why didn’t I just [...]
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Tagged: screenwriting, writing
Can’t sleep, so I’ll post to the blog Comments Off
I’m excited about this weekend. I’m spending it in the company of best-selling author David Farland. I’m attending one of his workshops. This one is called “Write that Novel!” which seems pretty much perfect for me. I have totally stalled on War Dogs of Mars’ progress.
This looks like a comprehensive course. I’m going in [...]
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[writing] Short Story : Dream Singer Awakens Comments Off
Last night I spent the evening completing a short story that has turned into a novelette. I know I’ll have a problem marketing a novelette. I don’t believe I’ll need to redraft this story, but I might need to go through and attempt some serious cuts. However, even if I cut 10-20% of the story, [...]
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Why they call me that, I do not know; for my name is Elisa Day Comments Off
Hey, world. I’m not dead. Just real busy. However, that should give me a lot of post about. I just recently attended Apollo Con in Houston. That was a lot of fun. However, I seemed to halt all progress on the novel at that time.
I think that’s [...]
Categories: Books Read, War Dogs of Mars
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[Writing War Dogs of Mars] – the shawn is crazy post Comments Off
Progress is slow going on the novel. That’s normal for me though. The schedule works in waves. My weekends with my daughter tend to be all about my daughter and I clear the headspace of anything unrelated to our activities together. So if there’s any progress on the novel it’s minimal. [...]
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Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin Comments Off
Sometimes you just have to print the thing out and type it all different.
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Novel Progress 1
Progress on the novel isn’t quite speeding ahead the way I originally planned. I think part of the problem was trying to find an appropriate voice to get things rolling. My initial attempt was just a little too pretentious. Also, I want to inject a little humor into this novel and starting [...]
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