Good News
For Me and For You If You're Taking my Workshop Tomorrow
Yay Me
Happy Friday indeed! A few days ago, I signed with a new manager at Untitled, an amazing management company that represents prestigious writers, directors, actors and production companies — the level of talent that inspires people in charge of money to say ‘yes’ to projects.
This is incredibly good news of course and I will share along the way. I have long standing suffering when it comes to agents and managers. For the most part, I could more easily talk to Barack Obama than your average Hollywood agent. It’s me, not them. Okay, it’s both of us. I’ll write more on this topic in another post, but I am thrilled with this development. Thank you for the well wishes I’m imagining.
What Do You Get When You Cross a Writer and a Teacher?
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve (obsessively?) revised my curriculum for our first session of my Screenwriting Workshop - Six Weeks to a Vomit Draft. I’ll stop the humble pie and just say that my workshops are badass and fun and illuminating and you can still sign up. I was a teacher before I was a writer, and the combination allows me to write good curriculum and listen and meet people where they’re at. I’m flexible in my thinking and I try my best to help people go where they want to go. Like a seeing eye dog maybe but I don’t want to say my participants are blind—it’s jut the first metaphor that came to mind and I have to go home and pack for a trip to Albany for my annual effort at swinging a club at a small white ball.
Below I’ll share something about LOGLINES that will help the folks in my workshop. This is a good time for me to encourage you to Upgrade your experience here because only Paid Subscribers will have access to the various documents and exercises I use. This workshop and all my upcoming workshops will be evolutions of workshops I’ve done at NYU, Pratt, and in various capacities as an educator and Associate Director of Almanack Screenwriters. Consider upgrading if you want a fresh take on an old art form from a writer who is actively swinging clubs in a creative field and has been for more than 20 years. Gonna get that hole in one eventually…
LOGLINES
Loglines make many writers tense up because it makes them feel like they’re on the wrong side of the art and commerce spectrum. They also make some writers feel like their beautiful-complex-subtle-nuanced story has been reduced to a cheap whore sprawled out on a TV Guide. I used to feel this way, but no longer.