Thursday, September 23, 2010

Inspiration and a Story's Moment of Grace

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Photo by Blakophoto I am often aware that good stories come from sudden inspiration — like noticing that a morning dew drop, which scatte...
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Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Living Dead Girl: Is there a Resurrection?

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We are proud to host this exclusive online debut of the newly restored HD version of Jon Springer's 35mm classic silent zombie short ...
Wednesday, August 4, 2010

THE PLEDGE: Does Virtue Lead to Insanity?

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All Star Cast... False Moral Premise... Sink Hole Now and then I'll get feedback from readers and my shorter workshops that I shou...

Can a "moral premise" be "art"?

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A reader (John Conley) writes: How true does the following Moral Premises seem to you? 1) "A Society that denounces Art and pra...
Friday, July 30, 2010

The Code of Chivalry

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In posting the interchange between J.C. and myself, I came across this. I think audiences would like more of the list below... slightly edit...

Chivalry vs. Rashness

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Discovering what your story is really about, at the moral premise level, is always a challenge. Here's a short (edited) email exchange t...
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Friday, July 23, 2010

What's Lindsay Lohan's Psychological Story Spine?

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"Inspiration you will not find. It will find you." (George's professor,  "George Lucas in Love." ) That wonderful ...
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Shirley Sherrod the NAACP: What Can We Learn About Storytelling?

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The developing story about Shirley Sherrod,  who is black, and who was (is/will again be) the Agriculture Department's director o...
Saturday, July 10, 2010

IRELAND: A Story of Love Betrayed.

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In Ireland... "The Greatest Wound ... in This Present Crisis Is the Betrayal of Love" Below I provide a clip and then a link t...
Friday, July 9, 2010

ARISTOTLE'S NICOMACHEAN ETHICS - Mean Virtue

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Back in February 2010 I wrote about how a producer I was working with had suggested that the vices of a particular story we were working ...
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Moral Premise Analysis by Miquiel Banks

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Some time ago I started receiving emails from an independent film reviewer, Miquiel Banks. Since then, Miquiel has been creating a series of...
Tuesday, July 6, 2010

LICENSE TO WED

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You want a bad example of a moral premise that seems to be right, but fails at the box office? Okay, here you go. Pam and I are catchin...
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Thursday, July 1, 2010

Can Games Have a Moral Premise?

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I came across this post today by Reid Bryant Kimball a game designer, about how the moral premise can be used in game design. It's ver...
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Story Structure Basics - 13 Major Beats

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[Revised 18 March 2015] Click for Larger Image Often when a producer or writer sends me a script to analyze it's because they...
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First Entertain

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There's an adage in Hollywood, and similar industries, that says: "FIRST ENTERTAIN." Successful entertainment, to me, is def...
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Screenplay Checklist & the 4M's of the Moral Premise

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SCREENPLAY CHECKLIST Came across this very good checklist for screenwriters at Danny Santos' blog.  Here's the first of eight sect...
Sunday, June 20, 2010

The Moral Premise Statement LIST

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I have created a single page that lists all the moral premise statements used in the book and my workshop slide presentation. In the weeks ...
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Thursday, June 17, 2010

Abby Sunderland's Story Leads to Inspiration

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In the wake of Abby Sunderland's rescue in the South Pacific, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars to Austrailia and at least...
Sunday, June 6, 2010

The Karate (Kung Fu) Kid

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In August of 2008 I was asked to review the then current screenplay for the KARATE KID V, in which Jaden Smith would star. At the time I did...
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Romance Writers & The Moral Premise

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A few blogs ago I wrote about Myra Johnson and her "gang" of romance writers. Well, I didn't know they were a gang then, just...
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