Marshmallow people scare me- in a good way.
Month: February 2011
Do You Know What Time It Is?
I don’t want books to go away-even if they are replaced by little computers you can carry around with no effort and will fit anywhere.
My fear is if books, real books, go away so will the writers.
Point: Have you noticed if a movie isn’t a retread it’s based on a computer game and ‘reality shows’ are based on another reality show that came out a month ago?
And in some cases if you see a movie trailer you’ve seen the movie?
Before e-mail became all the rage I had Pen Pals and I wrote letters. Some of those letters took days to write in some cases. Now I send comments on facebook and most of my e-mails are less than a hundred words because I’ve been told- who has the time to read a letter?
Writers are not being replaced, we are becoming obsolete.
I figure that one day you’ll just jam something into your ear and a voice at the other end will tell you what to see and think and …oh wait…
- The year 2000 as it was imagined back in 1910 by Villemard
Its Just You And Me Rod Serling
So this is where I have been for the past month and where I will be for the months to come:
I’ve started taking screenwriting classes.
I’ve never actually read a script, I haven’t put much thought into what it takes to make a movie or a tv show and last year after helping on my husband’s campaign I was ready to jam a pencil into my own ear if I ever was tempted to sit in front of a computer and write anything for any reason ever again.
So this screenwriting class almost didn’t happen.
But the fact is I love to write and I love to tell stories so I signed up and off I went.
It was all good until it dawned on me that I was in a class with people who knew what they were talking about, they understood the industry and they had favorite screenwriters.
I have Rod Serling. And I tossed his name out there when we were talking about screenwriters we admired.
So at that point it was me and Rod sitting in this class- and had it been in the real world and not on -line I could picture us in the back of the class face palming ourselves when I hauled off and threw his name after someone dropped the name Alan Ball and I had to google ASAP to find out who he was.
He turned out to be a very big deal.
Geeze.
But you know, that’s okay because, well, because it was funny I guess- and if I am in a situation even the awful ones and I can laugh I know I am in the right place and that I am going to be okay…better then okay in fact.
So for the past month I read scripts, I’m studying from a book called the Screen Writer’s Bible I did my homework and when I handed in my assignments I learned that I was not a complete chucklehead with the creator of the Twilight Zone as her inspiration to become a writer and her guide into a completely new area of writing that was completely alien to her.
However, if you are going to stand on a bridge look down into the abyss say to yourself, ” Oh yeah, let’s do it ” that kind of enthusiasm for adventure and the excitement for turning a corner and finding yourself in a strange world doesn’t come our of thin air.
It comes from the Twilight Zone.
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Where I am taking my classes:
Academy of Film Writing
Info
hey how about a 3 way ackward pause?
Matt Smith
like the Doctor’s Bow Ties
is
cool:
and this is the story of
Doctor Who
as told by puppets, dancers and Craig Ferguson
Be Mine
Be Mine
I
DARE
you.
Weird Weekend At The Bones
I love old horror movies LOVE THEM.
So over this weekend I bought a box collection of old horror movies and caught two of them over Saturday and Sunday:
Nightmare Castle was just crazy cool- the first time I saw it I was about eight years old and I was rooting for wicked Solange who is living off of Muriel’s blood- to win. So years later I see it again and I’m proud to say Solange is STILL my favorite character in this movie.
Creature From The Haunted Sea is one of my favorite movies because there is singing, there is kissing and best of all the monster wins.
YAY!
- Photo: Joe Baran
May your week be as much fun as my weekend of weird was.
a.m.m.
Irregular Bones 
