Story Notes: Lifting the Veil
In between everything else in my life right now, I am recording some footage for a documentary about downtown Los Angeles, and its efforts at recovery. I am especially interested in the push to breathe new life into the old movie palaces that dot downtown, like the Cameo or the Orpheum, all now closed or repurposed. I had decided the other day to attend the unveiling of the old façade at Clifton’s. Sure it didn’t have anything to do with the movie palaces, but anyone…
Story Notes, Part One
The following question has come up a lot lately for me: How do you tell a good story? The short answer: I don’t know. The longer answer: Nobody knows. Not even the Hollywood bigwigs, development executives, studio consultants, or screenwriters. In fact, as William Goldman so succinctly put it: “Nobody knows anything” in Hollywood. Nevertheless, everybody knows a good story or two. So there must be a way to tell a good, compelling, page-turning, stick in your seat type story. The more I thought, the…
So, NaNoWriMo
I caved in. For those of you who don’t know, November is National Novel Writing Month. I don’t know who decreed it as such—this website explains more—but I do know that many writers take it very seriously, and I’ve always made fun of it, until I started a book the other week. Exhibit A: 1 Infographic describing some goofy ideas I came up with inspired by the month. I have accepted that I’m not going to finish the novel by this Friday. I am channeling…
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